How to Draw Patterns: Easy and Fun Step-by-Step Guide for Unique Creations

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn and practice creating patterns and textures in their coloring adventure. I’ve been hoping and waiting for something like this, where you can learn and practice step by step on how to create and color different patterns and surface textures. This workbook guides you through all that and more. From windows, skies, trees, water, rain, puddles, bubbles, wood grain, playful and whimsical patterns—almost anything you can think of. Thank you Coco Wyo!

This is a great addition to my collection of Coco Wyo coloring books. It’s a how-to guide that helps you add extra flair to your coloring pages — from textures and patterns to shading techniques that make your art pop.It’s perfect for amateur coloring artists who want to level up their pages and start personalizing their work with more detail. A super helpful resource that makes coloring even more fun and creative!

This makes drawing intricate patterns easy! The book takes you step-by-step though how to add different layers of color and includes places to practice. Love this book! Lots to learn and makes learning easy. Well worth it.

daughter LOVED this. great to teach her to use her new ohuhu markers. teaches lots of techniques. she is having SO much fun with it!

I am an enthusiastic newbie and I would say that art is not intuitive for me in the way it has been for other people. I recently started coloring and I think that the concept of a book like this is really helpful for people at this level. I've been using it for a few weeks now and I love that it built my confidence when I was able to replicate a design, but as the more complicated ones rolled out, the four-step format will often consolidate steps to the point that the pattern is very difficult to replicate on your own.If you're already a pretty strong doodler or artist, you'll be fine with the level of explanations. I haven't been so discouraged that I've put it down yet, so I wouldn't call the book unapproachable, but in the same way that confidence is built when you can learn a new trick, it's demoralizing to spend a ton of time trying to identify the micro-steps only to see that you're really struggling to get the technique down.In my opinion, the perfect supplement to this book would include:1. More detailed written explanations.2. For your beginners especially, more guides and tips for drawing out the patterns by hand--e.g., a practice space where you can trace a light grey or dotted line that guides you through mastering the brick/wood/stone texture, a guide that shows you where you would want to find/create your light source and add highlight or shadows (e.g., facets on a crystal), for your beginners, I'd even appreciate practice to get the lines down drawing the bow, heart, fish, the perfect melty drip, etc. Basically, help my incompetent self with some of that muscle memory.3. Additional copies of each practice image so that you can try using a separate palette or practice a challenging effect more than once.4. A short guide with the colors used and their names. If you want to avoid using the brand names from a particular supplier, you could give a more general color name. I found that, as some other people noticed, if you didn't match colors, you could mess up the effect pretty quickly. It may take up a lot of space to include the suggested colors on the page, but an appendix would be pretty helpful for people who are getting started with color matching and blending.5. Practice space for blending and using the blender marker. The first time it encouraged me to use the blender marker was a bit tragic and it made it really hard to move on to the next step. Just like with suggestions 2 and 3, some space that allows you to get used to creating that soft glow effect with the blender marker would have been really helpful. For blending without the blender, I have a separate coloring practice book that gives these grey dotted lines lines that tell you about where you want to start blending. It gives a list of 3 colors to use and then in five steps, it walks you through blending a sunset sky. I found it pretty helpful and a strong contrast with this book's directions for the City Night that just tell you to blend a gradient before moving on to the next step.6. Lots of other people mention the inspo gallery at the end-- at first I thought that the idea was that you would slowly advance through the book and by the end, be able to use any given effect at the end. I'm curious if I will develop a better eye for breaking down how to achieve a pattern as I go through, but for now, while they are inspiring, I'd include a bit that demystifies the new patterns.You can get some of this by supplementing the current guide with any of the many online tutorials and coloring workbooks available so overall, it's a great resource. Personally, I like written instructions or sometimes don't always have a screen available, so a more fleshed out book would just work better.

Outstanding and fun book. A must-have for anyone who wants to improve their coloring techniques. I love that it is in full color and as that makes it easy to understand how to draw the patterns, even for my friends who don't speak English. In other words, reading the instructions is not necessary for you to get great results.

LOVE this book so much! I love that the examples are in color and gives you step by step instructions for the patterns, I just wish there more, like the iridescent and glass effect. But I was able to create the patterns easily and came out looking fantastic!

I'm just getting into the alcohol marker coloring craze, and this was the PERFECT book for me to learn and practice patterns like water and stone, and to branch out creatively on fabric and wall patterns!There's lots of practice space too!