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

I got this book to go along with my new obsession with coloring using alcohol markers, and it’s been such a fun addition. The patterns are simple yet creative, and they give me great practice with blending, shading, and trying out different color combos. The illustrations are adorable, and the step-by-step style makes it easy to follow without feeling overwhelming. It’s playful, inspiring, and just what I needed to add more variety to my coloring pages.

I haven't started yet, but I can tell now that this is going to help my coloring journey so so much! Sometimes you can't think of what to do, or what pattern to add, or maybe how to make the water look more than just blue. This book truly captures so many different ways to make your pages have the most details, while still having fun doing it. They give you each different style, pattern, texture, in 4 easy steps, then they give you an area to try yourself following the steps. It has pages in the back to continue practicing & even includes actual coloring pages to practice on, too. I think if you're in need of either some help to get a better concept of how to do stuff like water, and skies, or if you struggle with finding a good pattern or trying to blend, this book will be a huge help! I definitely recommend it for all ages, too! It's simple enough for anyone to understand and try!

THANK YOU, Coco Wyo, for igniting my creativity!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book!! The instructions to create different textures, patterns, and special effects that add life to coloring book pages are fantastic! Some patterns are more difficult than others, but the easy-to-follow instructions (in words and color photos), are great! I love that there are suggested color palettes. There are also swatch areas to record what colors I used, so I can replicate the design later in an actual coloring picture. The “lessons” are short, so they can be completed easily in one sitting. I have completely lost track of time while working in this book. I have done three or four lessons every night since I received it. It is so much fun and relaxing!! I don’t consider myself an artist and I am not good at sketching by any means, but I am pretty proud of how some of my drawings came out thanks to Coco and this instruction book. I can’t wait to try the techniques I learned on an actual picture! Do not hesitate to purchase this book, especially if you are ready to take your coloring book adventure to the next level!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

I absolutely love this how-to draw patterns guide. The instructions are clear, simple, and perfect for beginners or anyone wanting to improve their skills. The step-by-step examples for cute patterns made it easy to practice and feel confident. I especially enjoyed using my alcohol markers with these techniques. Such a helpful and inspiring book!

Very nice quality, cute inspo ideas, good detailed mini tutorials anda space to practice each one and has color palette ideas

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 recreate 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 more, uhh, uncoordinated, 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 be able to use any given effect at the end. Some people have mentioned that this is better as a reference book, which I would agree with, although I do think that I really had to complete a lot of practice using this book and other resources before I was comfortable flipping to a particular page and just trying out a new pattern without feeling like I wasn't ready for it. I'm curious if I will develop a the eye for breaking down how to achieve a pattern without as much hand-holding as I go through, but for now, while they are inspiring, I'm still inclined to think that a bit that demystifies the new patterns. Overall, it's a great resource and I think that it's definitely worth having even if you are a total beginner. You can get a lot of what you need on your own using the current guide with any of the many online tutorials, communities, and additional coloring workbooks available, so I have found that to also help. Right now, I'd hesitate to give it a full five stars because, personally, I like written instructions I don't always have a screen available, so a more fleshed out book would have just worked better. No one book is going to do it all, but this is a good one to get you started.

Both this book & the Maison Nook "How To Draw Patterns" book were published this year [2025], so I'm not sure who inspired whom — but as I was perusing Amazon for coloring books I ofc came across these. I noticed they appeared very similar & was kind of curious if maybe one was ripping off of the other. I got the Coco Wyo book first and since starting it, my boyfriend has become increasingly interested in coloring and art — so much that he told me he'd like a "How To" practice book of his own (when I asked if he meant like, did he wanna learn realism or how to draw cartoons/cute stuff, he said "cute stuff"!) 😆 And that was the perfect excuse to get the Maison Nook book, too! . I read the reviews & looked at the photos/videos posted for both books but didn't see anyone really making direct comparisons. So, that's why I'm leaving my review. I don't really think it matters who published theirs first, unless one of them was legit a direct rip off (plagiarism!), as an artist myself that strikes a chord — but neither are! Huzzah! I think it's all good, honestly. While I can see many of the techniques & patterns or imagery replicated from one to the other, each artist puts their own spin on them. The Maison Nook book offers variations of what you get in the Coco Wyo book, and I kind of love that because you get to practice on different illustrations. The more the merrier! . One noteable difference in their styles is how each artist keys the colors for their examples. Coco Wyo simply gives you the swatches of the colors used, above the example, and then describes what to use in the captions below each step. Whereas, Maison Nook uses a blend of swatches & icons beneath each step to indicate whether they're using a marker, colored pencils, an acrylic paint pen, or gel pens. I kind of like that as an idea, for beginners especially. I'm also a visual learner myself, so maybe I'm a little bias in that regard. Each method works perfectly fine! I love both books! The Coco Wyo book here has 111 pages, and the Maison Nook book has 104 pages. Altogether that's 215 pages of coloring techniques practice 👏 . If you LOVE coloring, I'd recommend adding both books to your collection!

The content of this book is an absolute 5 star! Such great information and helpful as someone wanting to level up their marker coloring skills. I love the layout of the book as a guide but also practice. My beef with Amazon is the horrendous quality of the paper! It is so cheap and not great for alcohol markers. The bleeding is massive because it doesn’t have a glossy finish. It is a shame because it is a great book! I would recommend buying a digital version and printing it out on your own coloring paper.