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Girlfriend has pretty deep mental health issues, she got one of these for Christmas and it works really well as a coping technique. Takes her mind off of whatever she's obsessing about and instead she gets lost in colouring. Highly recommended as a distraction to an overthinking brain.

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I make colouring(with paint) books for kids on iPad and have been giving serious thought to make adult ones. Do you think your girlfriend would interested in working on a digital surface?

I hope you'll post a follow-up to that in a few months, I am curious about it.

My (unsubstantiated) opinion is that the contact with a physical piece of paper (emphasis on physical) has much more impact than we think.

Personnaly I like zen doodling :).

I reckon I will put something up on my blog. Its a game dev blog but my painty endeavours have a great deal of influence on that side of my work. I would love todo something in VR that took the best from tactile and digital.

Sorry, only just noticed my comment actually got replies. She's not really too into digital surfaces, she prefers using pen(cil) and paper wherever she can. So for my specific use-case it probably wouldn't be to fruitful, but there may be other people who feel differently. I'd say go for it and see what comes of it!

Our family recently got a coloring book as a gift called Splendid Cities. I thought it was strange that it was filed under self-help. It's subtitled, "Coloring Your Way to Calm." My wife and daughter colored opposite sides of a symmetrical picture of onion domes. Intricate and rewarding, and yes, a relatively calm part of the day.

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