Guides to making coloring books people finish

Practical, step-by-step help with planning, drawing, printing and selling, from a single page to a published paperback.

Making coloring books

Plan a book, draw the pages, set it up for print and finish it with a cover.

How to make a coloring book, from idea to print
How to make a coloring book, from idea to print
Pick an audience and a theme, draw consistent pages, choose a trim size and margins, add a cover and print a proof. A step-by-step guide for home printing, classrooms and Amazon KDP.
9 min readUpdated October 18, 2026

Selling coloring books

Publish on Amazon KDP and Etsy, price your book and write a listing that sells.

Being written nowPublishing on KDP and Etsy, pricing, and listings that sell.

Learn by making one page

Describe a page in a sentence and see it drawn. The first ones are free.

Make my first page free