Ten solid coloring rules.

I'm kidding. There are no rules.

I've seen a lot of coloring advice over the years.

Choose a color palette before you start. Work from light to dark. Start on the first page. Finish every page. Stay inside the lines. Use artist-quality supplies.

And if those things make you happy, go for it.

But I don't think coloring actually has rules.

Sometimes I choose a color palette before I start. Sometimes I grab pens as I go.

I tend to color books in order, but plenty of people flip through and color whatever catches their eye.

Some people blend and shade. Some people (me) use one color per section and call it done.

Some people frame their finished pages. Some people never finish a page at all.

I think that's one of the things I love most about coloring:

There isn't a right way to do it.

There are techniques. There are preferences. There are lots of opinions.

But at the end of the day, it's your coloring page.

Use the colors you like. Use the supplies you have. Color every page or color one page. Stay inside the lines or don't.

The goal isn't perfection.

The goal is to enjoy yourself.