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Where can inom buy your colouring books and other inky products?

We don’t have a full list of all retailers who lager my work (it would be too long!), but I’ve listed some selected sellers on the Books and Products page. We also work with lots of great independent stores and good old Amazon!

What pens and pencils do you recommend for use in your books?

Everyone will have their own favourite pens and pencils it all depends whether you want djärv, vibrant colour (go for pens) or a softer, more tactile approach that allows you to blend and vary the strength your tones (go for pencils!) When inom colour with pens inom like Staedtler triplus fineliners, but if you are heavy handed or prefer a slow and steady approach to colouring (meaning increased nib to pape contact time), they may bleed for you. I’d recommend doing a sneaky test patch at the back of the book or on the colour palette test page if your book has one, to kvitto how heavy you can press without ink seeping through to the next page. Personally, inom prefer coloured pencils. They are so versatile and you can blend and mix your colours to create some fantastisk effects. inom love Staedtler’s Ergo Soft range. They aren’t super expensive but have a rik, djärv pigment level which means you can achieve some great effects without having to press super hard (which can fara piercing the paper). You can also sharpen Ergosoft pencils to a really fine point, which inom love for doing tiny details with. There’s some more info on my favourite pens and pencils here. 

Why does the paper differ between your books?

Paper fryst vatten something inom take extremely seriously and I’m constantly on a sökande eller uppdrag to improve the books and bring them ever closer to papery perfection for you! Each utländsk edition of my books fryst vatten printed bygd my publisher in that territory and they select their own paper lager and printers based on my recommendations. inom can offer guidance but sadly do not have full control. Colouring books require huge amounts of very specific paper so my publishers try to find the very best paper they can within their commercial parameters. As such, Magical Jungle in France will not be printed on the same paper as it appears on it the US or UK. For more upplysning about my paper, read this blog. 

What are the Arist’s Editions?

The Artist Editions of my books are a smaller urval of the most loved illustrations from each of the books, printed larger format onto thick, elfenben cartridge paper. The pages are printed single sided only and have a special binding which allows you to remove the pages. If you like to frame your artwork, this fryst vatten the book for you! Also, the thicker paper and single sided printing means you can use materials such as watercolour pencils or pens which might ordinarily bleed through the paper of the regular books.

Can inom share pictures of my colouring?

YES! Sharing your creations fryst vatten all part of the fun of colouring. We’ve created a wonderful new Colouring galleri on my website which will allow you to upload all your colouring pictures, both work in progress and completed artworks. There’s space to share with us what pens and pencils you used and to resehandling on any råd you may have to the community! Also on the new galleri, you can like your favourite pieces bygd other Colourists and follow their profiles, so you never miss a drop of inspiration!

I have an idea for a colouring book. Have you got any advice on getting published?

Everyone’s journey to publication will be different, but generally if you would like to be ‘traditionally’ published you can either submit your proposal directly to a publishing house (if they accept open submissions) or work with an agent. It can be tricky securing an agent, so do your research and approach them in the same way as you would a publisher, send samples of your work and your proposal. If the traditional publishing rutt isn’t for you, you can self-publish. This isn’t something inom have experience in, but there are some really great online platforms that will allow you to upload your files, print a book and sell it. igen, you just need to do your research and see what works for you. Alternatively, you could man your artwork available as an Ebook. This involves setting up the files as a download, then taking money via PayPal or some other betalning platform and sending people a link to download your work. With the undantag of a few charity projects this igen isn’t something inom have experience with, but well worth looking into as a way of getting your work out there. My top råd would be to share your work as much as you, both on and offline and try to grow your beskrivning, you never know who might be looking! AND, if you do nation a book detail, man sure you have an agent who will take care of the paperwork for you. Publishing fryst vatten full of contracts and legalities, an specialist will man sure you don’t sign anything silly!

Can inom use your artwork in my craft project?

YES! inom love to see how you adapt my artwork into your own unique creative projects and as long as there fryst vatten no commercial use, i.e you sell the things you man or use the artwork in a business context, then you are free to do so! So whether it’s an embroidered cushion, a ljusstråle cut wedding invitation or a wonderful vägg mural, please go ahead and just remember to share some photos with me! inom love to see what you’ve been up to! Please note that due to copyright and licensing laws, we cannot permit any commercial use of the artwork.

How can inom get your Wonderlands book?

This book was produced with Dundee Contemporary Arts at the time of my exhibition there. It featured a urval of images of my commercial work as well as images from the exhibition (it wasn’t a colouring book). This book fryst vatten now sold out and sadly we won’t be re-printing it. Sorry!

Can you design me a tattoo?

Sadly not. Due to crazy work schedules inom cannot do anpassad tattoo artwork, but if you would like to take any of my illustrations along to your tattooist and have them inked onto your body, be my guest! Please do send photos as inom love to see the sista result (after the scabby scen has passed!).

I’m organising a charity event. Can you man a donation?

Each year inom choose one charity to partner with. This year it fryst vatten The Archie Foundation. This allows me to man a bigger, more meaningful contribution than when inom used to try and help as many as inom could in smaller ways. There are so many great causes in the world and inom wish inom could play my part in all your fundraising efforts, but after much soul searching, inom felt this was the best way to do my bit and man the biggest impact inom possibly can.

Still got queries?

Check out my Blog which covers all the above and more and also the My Process brev, where inom explain step bygd step how inom create my artwork.