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Let me present you my lord Cthulhu https://www.chaosium.com/blogstaying-in-color-in-at-home-wit...
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That was obviously on purpose: chaos reigns!
Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time
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What the hell? I'm in my fifties and this is nice relaxing and a break from being serious and on point 86400 seconds per day. Unless you're trolling and then i guess you got me, fool me once.
You’re claiming you printed these out, colored them in with crayons, enjoyed the experience, and at no point questioned whether you were infantilizing yourself?
As someone trying to get back into art, I've been considering using coloring books for shading practice - so I'm not constantly distracted by wanting to correct my own "bad" proportions, as I would be with my own linework. Granted, I'm more interested in the Call of Cthulhu coloring book linked elsewhere in the comments section, and I'd use different materials, but if you've got crayons - why not! More talented artists might amuse themselves with corrupting the original linework first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiCx1BIRQWc
Infantilizing adults can cause serious harm when it undermines their independence, or their ability to take on the burdens and responsibilities of adulthood. However, I'm hard pressed to see any harm in an adult enjoying a coloring book, especially when used as an opportunity to bond with the children they're raising or teaching. The original poster comes across as someone proudly exclaiming "Those are baby toys, I don't play with baby toys!" - a phrase and attitude I've heard almost exclusively from actual children - just dressed up in fancier words. I think it is far more infantile than a coloring book. Some of us are secure enough in our adulthood to indulge in harmless childishness from time to time. You can't stop us. Phhbbbbbt!! (Care to join us?)
Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time
#33It would be remiss of me not to mention https://www.crayola.com/featured/free-coloring-pages/
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#34Really nicely designed site, but there's only 4 pages total?
Four aren't enough? How fast are you at coloring???
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#35I'd love to see a GAN coloring book generator.
The "Monster Mash" page looks like it was generated by a GAN.
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#36It would be remiss of me not to mention https://www.crayola.com/featured/free-coloring-pages/
it makes perfect sense for a company that sells crayons to publish free coloring pages.
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#38I don't know the link, or it is even still up, but I met a woman back in '01 that put together a coloring book site, internationalized it, and was receiving $4K a week in Google advertising revenues. She had sections for 80+ countries international holiday, a often a few of whomever was their country's founding people. When I last saw her, she was hip hop style covered in gold.
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#39Stupid question - if I wanted to import those into an iPad app and colour them there(using an Apple Pencil or similar) - what would be the best way to do that?
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#40Another similar idea I saw recently https://colorthisthing.com/