Coloring as Medicine

I collaborated with two globally recognized coloring brands—Prima Marketing, a California-based publisher, and Lake Coloring, an award-winning creative app—to design collections of feminine, flower-filled illustrations focused on beauty, softness, and emotional healing through creativity.

Both projects were rooted in the same vision: helping women connect to their creativity through calming, elegant illustrations featuring flowing hair, blooming flowers, and graceful female forms. These artworks were not just made to be colored—they were designed to soothe, inspire, and reconnect.

For Prima, I illustrated two physical coloring books, each with 24 pages, available internationally through platforms like Amazon. For Lake, I designed a 12-page digital collection, which has generated passive income for over eight years and was featured in the Apple App Store Award-winning app.

The challenge was in adapting my detailed botanical linework to two very different formats:

* Print required softness and organic line quality that honored pencil texture and allowed users to shade and blend naturally.

* Digital required crisp vector lines, reduced tiny details, and a smooth user experience on-screen—especially for beginners or casual colorists using their fingers.

All designs were hand-drawn on paper, then cleaned and vectorized in Photoshop and Illustrator. Themes included:

- Feminine beauty – elegant poses, long hair, flowing dresses

- Nature – floral frames, blooming backdrops, peaceful natural symbols

- Emotional serenity – calm expressions, poetic postures, dreamlike settings

Every page was made with balance and emotional intention—designed to look beautiful both colored and uncolored.

Prima books were loved by the coloring community, though no longer in print.

Lake Coloring App continues to feature my collection prominently, especially among its Asian user base, with new users still downloading and engaging with it after many years.

My collection has remained active and evergreen, which speaks to its emotional and artistic relevance.

Creating these coloring pages was incredibly healing for me. They allowed me to focus on composition and emotional flow, without the pressure of color decisions. I believe women resonate with this work because it reflects the soft power of femininity—and because it came from my own process of creative recovery.

To this day, I’m proud that thousands of women around the world have spent quiet moments coloring my lines—turning them into their own private works of art.