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Imagimorphia
Fans of adult coloring books are invited to enter the weird and wonderful world of Kerby Rosanes, the illustrator behind the Sketchy Stories blog and Animorphia, the international phenomenon and New York Times bestseller.In Imagimorphia, animals and objects morph and explode into astounding detail. Bring each intricate image to life with color and find the objects hidden throughout the book.
Printed on quality paper, Imagimorphiais a quirky coloring and search book for fans of adult coloring books like no other."
Printed on quality paper, Imagimorphiais a quirky coloring and search book for fans of adult coloring books like no other."
96 pages, Paperback
First published July 5, 2016
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Kerby Rosanes
50 books120 followersPhilippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes works mainly with ordinary black fine liners to magically illustrate his “doodle” world. Considers his art as a personal hobby which turned out to be his part-time freelance work after being recognized by various design blogs, international magazines and online art communities. Most of his works are characterized by whimsical lines, patterns, characters and little elements that are spontaneously combined to create massive compositions depicting his everyday inspirations or scenes from his quirky imagination.
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November 7, 2019
This was a pretty good adult coloring book and the first one I got of Kerby Rosane's adult coloring books that I started back in January and February of this year and finished at the end of September of this year. I used color pencils, markers, crayons and more in this book. If you love adult coloring and want to get this book, you can get it on Amazon and wherever adult coloring books are sold. For adult coloring tutorials with this book, check out Pencilstash on Youtube.
December 1, 2017
„Антистрес книга за оцветяване”, „Релаксиращи мандали”, „Книги за оцветяване за възрастни”, „Творчески предизвикателства”… Всички сте виждали издания от този род. Те са истински бум на пазара. Може би самите вие грабвате моливите и се отпускате по този начин в свободното си време. А може би гледате на всичко това като на претенциозни названия, оправдаващи инфантилно хоби. И в двата случая обаче няма как да не останете без дъх при вида на „Имаджиморфия” – новото предложение на издателство „Миранда”, своеобразно продължение на завладяващата „Аниморфия”, отново нарисувано от небезизвестния график Кърби Розанес. Прочетете ревюто на "Книжни Криле":
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January 22, 2020
THE BEST!!
Ini buku mewarnai pertama dari Kerby Rosane yang aku miliki.
Kalau lihat gambarnya sih rumit.
Tetapi ketika dijalani dan diwarnai beberapa bagian. Asli deh.. buku ini tuh asik banget!
T O P!!
Garis bantu untuk bayang-bayangnya yang diletakkan dalam gambar oleh ilustratornya itu membantu banget untuk menentukan warna yang kamu akan pilih selanjutnya.
Gak sangka aku pun dengan hasil yang aku kerjakan untuk 2 halaman yang memakan waktu selama 3 bulan.
Hasilnya benar-benar luar biasa!
Love it!
Dan hasil akhirnya benar-benar sepadan.
See my colour at:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nZZLTg4L5/
Sayang banget deh waktu bencana banjir di awal tahun 2020, buku ini 1/3 bagian atasnya teredam air banjir.
Tapi masih bisa diselamatkan. Untuk halaman yang sudah diwarnai.
Alhamdulillah tidak terlalu membawa bencana.
Saat ini aku masih menggarap halaman 40. Tantangan dari Mbak Chiko dari Coloring Squad Jakarta.
Belum ada titik terang kapan selesainya....
Hahahaha
Ini buku mewarnai pertama dari Kerby Rosane yang aku miliki.
Kalau lihat gambarnya sih rumit.
Tetapi ketika dijalani dan diwarnai beberapa bagian. Asli deh.. buku ini tuh asik banget!
T O P!!
Garis bantu untuk bayang-bayangnya yang diletakkan dalam gambar oleh ilustratornya itu membantu banget untuk menentukan warna yang kamu akan pilih selanjutnya.
Gak sangka aku pun dengan hasil yang aku kerjakan untuk 2 halaman yang memakan waktu selama 3 bulan.
Hasilnya benar-benar luar biasa!
Love it!
Dan hasil akhirnya benar-benar sepadan.
See my colour at:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nZZLTg4L5/
Sayang banget deh waktu bencana banjir di awal tahun 2020, buku ini 1/3 bagian atasnya teredam air banjir.
Tapi masih bisa diselamatkan. Untuk halaman yang sudah diwarnai.
Alhamdulillah tidak terlalu membawa bencana.
Saat ini aku masih menggarap halaman 40. Tantangan dari Mbak Chiko dari Coloring Squad Jakarta.
Belum ada titik terang kapan selesainya....
Hahahaha
September 18, 2016
The below review is from my blog, you can see the entire review with a flip through video here - https://thecoloringaddict.com/2016/09...
I bet you’ve all seen this book but if you haven’t, lets look at it now. Imagimorphia follows Kerby Rosanes’ previous coloring book, Animorphia. The two are very similar, Imagimorphia feels like the next episode of the same series. This can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your expectations. To me, it’s a good thing. I loved Animorphia and I also love Imagimorphia. There are differences though, Imagimorphia to me feels a bit more varied and thought through, also there are more single page pictures which I love and paired images that don’t enter the spine. Double page spreads still suffer from the same problem that Animorphia had, they enter the spine and are hard to reach.
I might be wrong but I feel there are less of those alien-like creatures in Imagimorphia. And there’s definitely a sway towards steampunk in this one with clogs and gears and such. Also a definite upgrade from Animorphia to me is that this book has a lot less of those draw-it-yourself pages. I don’t like those and don’t really know many people who do.
Many people are intimidated by the wild amount of detail in these pictures. My suggestion on first starting with these is to pick out a rather limited palette, choose a handful of pencils and work with those, you won’t get overwhelmed with choices and the end result will look cohesive. And you’ll build up courage to do more from these awesome books
I bet you’ve all seen this book but if you haven’t, lets look at it now. Imagimorphia follows Kerby Rosanes’ previous coloring book, Animorphia. The two are very similar, Imagimorphia feels like the next episode of the same series. This can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your expectations. To me, it’s a good thing. I loved Animorphia and I also love Imagimorphia. There are differences though, Imagimorphia to me feels a bit more varied and thought through, also there are more single page pictures which I love and paired images that don’t enter the spine. Double page spreads still suffer from the same problem that Animorphia had, they enter the spine and are hard to reach.
I might be wrong but I feel there are less of those alien-like creatures in Imagimorphia. And there’s definitely a sway towards steampunk in this one with clogs and gears and such. Also a definite upgrade from Animorphia to me is that this book has a lot less of those draw-it-yourself pages. I don’t like those and don’t really know many people who do.
Many people are intimidated by the wild amount of detail in these pictures. My suggestion on first starting with these is to pick out a rather limited palette, choose a handful of pencils and work with those, you won’t get overwhelmed with choices and the end result will look cohesive. And you’ll build up courage to do more from these awesome books
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April 27, 2016
Just amazing. It's not for a coloring book for coloring begginer. There is so many details, that it can make you crazy first :-)
December 18, 2017
Unfortunately, I can't give this book five stars because too many important elements of the designs go into the binding. Also, the double-sided pages limit the kinds of media which can be used.
May 4, 2016
This review is taken from my blog where I review adult colouring books from a mental health perspective. Images and a video flick-through of the book can be found here - https://colouringinthemidstofmadness....
This book is from my personal collection. The book is square, the same size as Animorphia and other bestsellers by JB and MM, it’s paperback with a black card cover with bright yellow lettering and an eagle (UK copy: there is bright green lettering and an owl on the US cover) in Kerby’s signature style which hints at what’s inside. The paper is bright white, very lightly textured and medium thickness, it does shadow with water-based fineliners but doesn’t bleed so you could use them very carefully but always check your pens somewhere inconspicuous to make sure you don’t ruin any reverse images. The paper is good for pencils and allows for a few layers for blending and shading. The ink does transfer a little when pressure is applied so when you’re using pencils pop a scrap piece of paper behind to avoid transfer. The book contains 80 images which are printed double-sided and include single (6) and double-page spreads (including 13 paired images which don’t enter the spine and have separate but similar designs on each page, and 24 traditional double-page spreads which do enter the spine and aren’t stand-alone images). The book has a glue- and stitch-bound spine which is fairly tight on arrival and the images are borderless so you do lose a strip of each image into the spine and unfortunately a couple of the images haven’t been designed very well for this type of spine, most notably the tree image (photographed below). Unlike Animorphia, not all of the images are focused around a realistically drawn animal which then morphs into lots of different creatures and objects, there are still a lot of these but there is much also more variety. Rather than just having alien doodles and objects, there are a number of images with a real steampunk theme including cogs and wheels, others including wires and metal, others still including lots of leaves, flowers, fish, birds and more. There is a much more industrial feel to some images with a gorilla morphing into a skyline of buildings, snails with actual houses on their backs, a camel hump being the setting of a whole city as well as scarab beetles filled with cogs, a metalwork butterfly and even robots and airships. The prettier images are very nature-themed and include a bird morphing into butterflies, a chrysalis pouring out all sorts of leaves and birds and other objects, and the typical animal morphs similar to Animorphia where the morphing is done so seamlessly that it’s difficult to tell where the animal stops and the creatures start. A whole host of animals and objects are featured from a leopard to a train, a birdcage to a tyrannosaurus rex, castles to a horse, skulls to swans, a panda to pineapples and so many more! Kerby’s signature alien creatures don’t feature quite so heavily in this book and the content is spiced up a lot more, for those of you who weren’t a fan of them, you’re sure to like this book a lot more and for those of you who loved them, there are still plenty to keep you interested and entertained so I think the level of them is just right!
In terms of mental health, this is one book that’s absolutely fantastic for distraction! It takes quite a lot of concentration to identify all of the parts of the picture let alone start choosing colours so this really is a book that will help you get through the days when your mind is racing and you need to be able to switch off. It’s not a book for the faint-hearted because each image takes a very long time and a lot of work but it’s so worth it and the effects you can create are amazing! Kerby appears to have taken note of the feedback about the add your own doodle pages and these have been drastically reduced to just two, a tiger where you can doodle the stripes, and a double-page spread of feathers to fill in. I’m really pleased about this because I can’t draw at all so I’m glad that all but 3 of the pages are finished and ready to colour! The images are very cohesive and they’re prettier than those in Animorphia and a bit less dark, most of the images have some shading and texture drawn in but not loads (check out the pictures below to decide if you like this feature or not). The line thickness varies throughout but mainly sticks around the thin mark so you need fairly good vision and fine motor control, but definitely not perfect to enjoy this book! There is also a treasure hunt with 3 pages at the back of the book showing all of the items you can hunt for within the images, followed by thumbnails showing the answers. This book is ideal for those of you who have a fairly good attention span so that you can really get involved in the images and the content is so absorbing that you really do get out of your head and away from your thoughts and become immersed in what you’re colouring. The images have a variety of intricacy and detail levels so you can use simpler images on bad days and more detailed images on days where you’re able to focus better so it’s a great book for those of you with fluctuating conditions.
I would highly recommend this book for male and female colourers who love all things weird, wonderful, and quirky, and who love animals and nature mixed with alien creatures, foliage and metalwork. This book is packed with amazing images that are great fun to colour and I was thrilled to hear that Kerby is currently working on another sequel called Mythomorphia which will be published in 2017 so isn’t available to be pre-ordered yet. This book is stunning, overwhelming at times and one that really gets your creative juices flowing so grab your pencils and get colouring yourself quirky!
This book is from my personal collection. The book is square, the same size as Animorphia and other bestsellers by JB and MM, it’s paperback with a black card cover with bright yellow lettering and an eagle (UK copy: there is bright green lettering and an owl on the US cover) in Kerby’s signature style which hints at what’s inside. The paper is bright white, very lightly textured and medium thickness, it does shadow with water-based fineliners but doesn’t bleed so you could use them very carefully but always check your pens somewhere inconspicuous to make sure you don’t ruin any reverse images. The paper is good for pencils and allows for a few layers for blending and shading. The ink does transfer a little when pressure is applied so when you’re using pencils pop a scrap piece of paper behind to avoid transfer. The book contains 80 images which are printed double-sided and include single (6) and double-page spreads (including 13 paired images which don’t enter the spine and have separate but similar designs on each page, and 24 traditional double-page spreads which do enter the spine and aren’t stand-alone images). The book has a glue- and stitch-bound spine which is fairly tight on arrival and the images are borderless so you do lose a strip of each image into the spine and unfortunately a couple of the images haven’t been designed very well for this type of spine, most notably the tree image (photographed below). Unlike Animorphia, not all of the images are focused around a realistically drawn animal which then morphs into lots of different creatures and objects, there are still a lot of these but there is much also more variety. Rather than just having alien doodles and objects, there are a number of images with a real steampunk theme including cogs and wheels, others including wires and metal, others still including lots of leaves, flowers, fish, birds and more. There is a much more industrial feel to some images with a gorilla morphing into a skyline of buildings, snails with actual houses on their backs, a camel hump being the setting of a whole city as well as scarab beetles filled with cogs, a metalwork butterfly and even robots and airships. The prettier images are very nature-themed and include a bird morphing into butterflies, a chrysalis pouring out all sorts of leaves and birds and other objects, and the typical animal morphs similar to Animorphia where the morphing is done so seamlessly that it’s difficult to tell where the animal stops and the creatures start. A whole host of animals and objects are featured from a leopard to a train, a birdcage to a tyrannosaurus rex, castles to a horse, skulls to swans, a panda to pineapples and so many more! Kerby’s signature alien creatures don’t feature quite so heavily in this book and the content is spiced up a lot more, for those of you who weren’t a fan of them, you’re sure to like this book a lot more and for those of you who loved them, there are still plenty to keep you interested and entertained so I think the level of them is just right!
In terms of mental health, this is one book that’s absolutely fantastic for distraction! It takes quite a lot of concentration to identify all of the parts of the picture let alone start choosing colours so this really is a book that will help you get through the days when your mind is racing and you need to be able to switch off. It’s not a book for the faint-hearted because each image takes a very long time and a lot of work but it’s so worth it and the effects you can create are amazing! Kerby appears to have taken note of the feedback about the add your own doodle pages and these have been drastically reduced to just two, a tiger where you can doodle the stripes, and a double-page spread of feathers to fill in. I’m really pleased about this because I can’t draw at all so I’m glad that all but 3 of the pages are finished and ready to colour! The images are very cohesive and they’re prettier than those in Animorphia and a bit less dark, most of the images have some shading and texture drawn in but not loads (check out the pictures below to decide if you like this feature or not). The line thickness varies throughout but mainly sticks around the thin mark so you need fairly good vision and fine motor control, but definitely not perfect to enjoy this book! There is also a treasure hunt with 3 pages at the back of the book showing all of the items you can hunt for within the images, followed by thumbnails showing the answers. This book is ideal for those of you who have a fairly good attention span so that you can really get involved in the images and the content is so absorbing that you really do get out of your head and away from your thoughts and become immersed in what you’re colouring. The images have a variety of intricacy and detail levels so you can use simpler images on bad days and more detailed images on days where you’re able to focus better so it’s a great book for those of you with fluctuating conditions.
I would highly recommend this book for male and female colourers who love all things weird, wonderful, and quirky, and who love animals and nature mixed with alien creatures, foliage and metalwork. This book is packed with amazing images that are great fun to colour and I was thrilled to hear that Kerby is currently working on another sequel called Mythomorphia which will be published in 2017 so isn’t available to be pre-ordered yet. This book is stunning, overwhelming at times and one that really gets your creative juices flowing so grab your pencils and get colouring yourself quirky!
August 23, 2017
I won a copy of this from a Goodreads Giveaway, but the opinions are my own.
I had purchased Kerby's newest coloring book Mythomorphia and wanted to get some of his older ones once seeing his amazing art. When my copy of Imagimorphia arrived I was so happy! The line art is amazing, I love all the little details in his art. I have fully completed one picture and am working on others, it is always a joy to work in this.
I had purchased Kerby's newest coloring book Mythomorphia and wanted to get some of his older ones once seeing his amazing art. When my copy of Imagimorphia arrived I was so happy! The line art is amazing, I love all the little details in his art. I have fully completed one picture and am working on others, it is always a joy to work in this.
May 28, 2023
This is one of my favorite coloring books. I've been slowly working in it, since it first came out. I still haven't finished it (I'm slow at coloring). The art work is nice but what I really like is the paper quality. I mostly use Prismacolor pencils but sometimes I like using neocolor ii, watercolors, gel pens, and acrylic paint. This paper takes all of those mediums really well.
January 3, 2018
BREAK THE SPINE! It’s an amazing coloring book but the details on some pages are deep in the middle so open the page you want to color and open it backwards until the threading is exposed and it’ll be easier to color. Makes it easier to take it out and frame your favs!
April 15, 2018
The paper is indeed very nice, no wonder so many colourists use water media.
Although I am not a Steampunk fan, some of the illustrations interest me enough to colour. I also like the cute "aliens" that appear in almost all of the pieces.
Should be a joy to colour.
4.5*
Although I am not a Steampunk fan, some of the illustrations interest me enough to colour. I also like the cute "aliens" that appear in almost all of the pieces.
Should be a joy to colour.
4.5*
May 30, 2017
Very cool coloring book; lots of fun!
June 19, 2017
A fun way to spend hours working on this intense and intriguing coloring challenge.
November 5, 2017
My favorite illustrator and I have loved each and every book of him!
It's always like a puzzle on every picture! Challenging and so much fun!
Highly recommended!
December 30, 2017
Wonderful drawings
September 16, 2020
Gorgeous coloring book, and hours of fun.
November 5, 2024
One of my favorite coloring books. Five stars for the line art. 4 for the paper and my pages are falling out. Despite that I love this book.
May 3, 2016
When Kerby brought out Animorphia last year it was like we'd all been hit!
Here was a colouring book so vastly different to Johanna's and Millie's books. For some of us it was the first time we'd coloured doodles. Now that we're old hands at doodling, how does the follow-up book measure up?
At a glance…..
Size - 250 x 250, 96 pages
Single-sided images - no
Images into the spine - yes
Paper - white, smooth
Perforated - no
Water based pens - with care
Who will love it - those who look forward to anything new from Kerby, those who like colouring doodles, and those who like colouring strong, bold, imaginative images.
Comment: I admire Kerby's drawing. It's strong and interesting. Doodles, I'm not so sure about. Uncommitted I suppose! I found Animorphia really detailed when it came to the doodles.
I'm pleased to see that this book has fewer spreads crowded with doodles.
The broader themes covered in this book are a plus too. There are still plenty of creatures but I do like the landscapes.
I think Imagimorphia is a more confident, assured and balanced book.
Kerby's third book on mythical creatures will probably be even more fun.
Drawing: Here are my observations -
- there are lots of different themes - landscapes, creatures, robots, music.
- there is still plenty of humour to be found in the drawings.
- the line length is medium throughout.
- some images are very detailed - the train, eagle, panda, castles.
- other images are much easier to approach like the balloons I coloured above, the gorilla (King Kong maybe?) and the snails.
there are just two instances where words ask you to add your own doodles.
- the doodles relate more closely to the main theme of the image. This gives better continuity to the book. The little alien dudes are still there too!
- some images have an industrial look, such as the robots and the butterfly.
- several images are simply beautiful like the bird.
This edition has the same issue as Animorphia; of double page spreads running into and through the spine of the book. The binding is glued and stitched so will loosen in time to allow you to get into the spine more easily. There are several single page images as well as double page spreads. The paper is good average. Pencils will be okay and water based pens may give some shadowing so just use light touches. Test them on an unobtrusive page first.
The back section of the book has three pages of hidden objects for you to find in the images. There are some cool items to look for - an Easter Island statue, Munch's The Scream, Rodin's the Thinker. This is followed by an index of the images showing where the hidden objects are to be found.
You can see images on my blog review - http://goo.gl/w7uqIv
Here was a colouring book so vastly different to Johanna's and Millie's books. For some of us it was the first time we'd coloured doodles. Now that we're old hands at doodling, how does the follow-up book measure up?
At a glance…..
Size - 250 x 250, 96 pages
Single-sided images - no
Images into the spine - yes
Paper - white, smooth
Perforated - no
Water based pens - with care
Who will love it - those who look forward to anything new from Kerby, those who like colouring doodles, and those who like colouring strong, bold, imaginative images.
Comment: I admire Kerby's drawing. It's strong and interesting. Doodles, I'm not so sure about. Uncommitted I suppose! I found Animorphia really detailed when it came to the doodles.
I'm pleased to see that this book has fewer spreads crowded with doodles.
The broader themes covered in this book are a plus too. There are still plenty of creatures but I do like the landscapes.
I think Imagimorphia is a more confident, assured and balanced book.
Kerby's third book on mythical creatures will probably be even more fun.
Drawing: Here are my observations -
- there are lots of different themes - landscapes, creatures, robots, music.
- there is still plenty of humour to be found in the drawings.
- the line length is medium throughout.
- some images are very detailed - the train, eagle, panda, castles.
- other images are much easier to approach like the balloons I coloured above, the gorilla (King Kong maybe?) and the snails.
there are just two instances where words ask you to add your own doodles.
- the doodles relate more closely to the main theme of the image. This gives better continuity to the book. The little alien dudes are still there too!
- some images have an industrial look, such as the robots and the butterfly.
- several images are simply beautiful like the bird.
This edition has the same issue as Animorphia; of double page spreads running into and through the spine of the book. The binding is glued and stitched so will loosen in time to allow you to get into the spine more easily. There are several single page images as well as double page spreads. The paper is good average. Pencils will be okay and water based pens may give some shadowing so just use light touches. Test them on an unobtrusive page first.
The back section of the book has three pages of hidden objects for you to find in the images. There are some cool items to look for - an Easter Island statue, Munch's The Scream, Rodin's the Thinker. This is followed by an index of the images showing where the hidden objects are to be found.
You can see images on my blog review - http://goo.gl/w7uqIv
December 19, 2016
Ik was gisteren in Wijnegem toen ik bij de boekenwinkel daar dit boek zag. Natuurlijk moest ik het meteen hebben, ik vond zijn andere boek, Animorphia (die ik tijden geleden had gekocht), ook al prachtig. Ik was eerst niet zeker of ik dit zou meetellen op Goodreads, het is immers een kleur boek. Maar ik heb besloten dat het telt. Ik ga het waarschijnlijk toch niet inkleuren (zonde!) en ik zie het meer als een artbook. Wel mooi hoe het vorige boek heel veel challenges had, en deze maar een klein aantal.
Hopelijk maakt Kerby nog veel meer boeken met zijn prachtige illustraties!
Hopelijk maakt Kerby nog veel meer boeken met zijn prachtige illustraties!
February 5, 2017
Gorgeous book full of intricate detail and nice variety of imagesThe full review is posted on Coloring Queen
August 26, 2016
really interesting pictures
con not one sided
con not one sided
August 10, 2017
Loved it. Especially all the doodles.
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