Coloring

[Asteroid]

My friend has been raving about these crayons called "Twistables" by Crayola. I bought some, and will give them a try....when i'm not so lazy to color. Let's be honest, i'll use them tomorrow. I have a bunch of unfinished coloring books, so i'm determining whether to bring my coloring books to day-hab tomorrow, or just see if there's a "Monday Mandela" class tomorrow and just use them there.

About coloring in general, why does it take no mental effort for the average person to color, while for someone like me, it takes a lot of mental effort? Is there anyone else like me who needs more mental effort to color in a coloring page? Am I alone?

 

[nightglow]

I had twistables once when I was a teen and I liked them a lot. They didn't get as dull tips as regular crayons and they didn't get wax flakes everywhere. They were really nice for traveling.
I really liked them. I actually got them from a small pharmacy in the town I was living in with a couple of adult coloring books. One was realistic art of sea creatures and the other... I can't remember. This was when adult coloring books started to gain popularity and I believe the twistables were considered new.

 

[Neb]

I found it really difficult to color as a child and couldn’t stay in the lines to save my life. It required a lot of mental dexterity for me to do it and I always messed up. When I was in the hospital last year during my break from this site I didn’t really have much to do, so I went through at least a dozen large coloring pages during my stay. I spent hours and hours at it for days. Eventually I got better at it and now I can color by hand pretty well as long as it’s with a colored pencil or felt tip marker.

Coloring is a skill like anything else and some are going to struggle with it until they spend a good amount of time doing it. If you find that it requires a lot of effort, but you enjoy doing it don’t let that stop you! Keep at it and I think eventually you’ll get some good results.

 

[ShawnFuzz]

I love coloring! I dont color very often, but I have a couple of coloring books and a set of colored pencils and sometimes get the urge to color! I cant say I am good at choosing colors, but for me it is super relaxing!

I cant say I have difficulty staying in the lines though. I never thought of it as being a skill, but I guess I can see it since its been brought up with your explanations. I find that interesting.

I know this an old thread, but I wanted to talk about coloring and found this thread

By the way, this is a short clip that got me thinking about discussing it

 

[Kamex]

Coloring is quite therapeutic. I know that drawing can be difficult, especially when you're trying to get an accurate sketch with good proportions, which is why coloring can be more relaxing. Also, I think that using colored pencils in coloring books can help a lot with developing good pencil control, which is useful for drawing.

 

[lasagne_of_death]

Twistables are peak to be fair, they were the fanciest colouring tools in primary school next to markers lol - if someone came in with a box of twistables, they were the absolute ****, and everyone would want to borrow/use them

I don't colour much nowadays, but if in given a colouring sheet in a free class (they hand these out every once in a while for some kind of mental health purpose/mental relaxation). I'm decent at staying in the lines ig, but my art style itself isn't very neat, so it's not a huge focus of mine. They often have colouring pages at national historical locations/collections with indoor areas (eg the chester beatty library, knock), and I always enjoy sitting down for a few minutes to doodle or colour. I'd say my favourite thing to use for colouring is fineliners, but as they can be a bit expensive to buy a lot of, I use up my colouring pencils more

One of my favourite things as a kid was those connect the dots and then colour-in books. I was always terrible at the connect the dots part, but it was fun nonetheless

 

[KittenNoir]

I loved using Twistables to colour in I haven't used them in a while actually I have been using ink markers. I find it therapeutic using them to shade and highlight what I am colouring in.

 

[Ginny Potter]

I just started doing signatures just to improve my art. I remember those and actually would use those again if I has the money to

 

[Corrie]

Twistables are peak to be fair, they were the fanciest colouring tools in primary school next to markers lol - if someone came in with a box of twistables, they were the absolute ****, and everyone would want to borrow/use them

Can confirm! Haha! I was one of the few kids in my classes that had Twistables and kids would always ask me to borrow them. I always said no cause I knew I would lose track of who borrowed what and I'd never get em back. They were expensive compared to regular pencil crayons.

I remember the ones that came with eraser ends and being blown away that they actually worked and erased!

 

[ShawnFuzz]

I really need to look in to what these Twistables are! They sound more like a snack than something to color with