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Why Millions of Grownups Are Buying This Colouring Book for Adults

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Why Millions of Grownups Are Buying This Colouring Book for Adults

  “忽如一夜春风来”,你的朋友圈有没有被涂色书刷屏?据说滞销多年的彩色铅笔终于找到了销路,纸质书也在电子书面前彻底昂首挺胸了一回。以《秘密花园》为代表的成人涂色书骤然兴起,让大人们也开始玩起了曾经只属于孩子的游戏。不过,成人涂色书可不仅仅是为了满足人们“返老还童”的愿望,安神养心、舒缓解压之功效才是其真正的魅力所在。

  Amazons Top 100 book list changes hourly but there are a few mainstays right now All the Light We Cannot See1), of course and the unreleased Go Set a Watchman2. Oh and two colouring books for grownups.

  An artist named Johanna Basford pretty much owns two slots of the top seven books on Amazon next to household names3 like Erik Larson4 and the omnipresent Dr. Phil5. But Basfords books arent novelstheyre collections of black-and-white drawings. The artist who graduated from design school in 2005 and is based in Scotland has turned her lovely ink drawings into colouring books for grownups. And theyre wildly popular selling millions of copies.

  If youre like me you didnt realize colouring for adults was a trend. What is it about these books that has made them so popular with adults Basford told me that when she first pitched publishers the idea of a grownup colouring book four years ago colouring for adults wasnt the trend it is now. You can imagine how quiet they went after I suggested it.

  But the book she ended up drawing has become a phenomenon 2013s Secret Garden An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book is currently #2 on Amazons Top 100 and has sold 1.4 million copies. The followup Enchanted Forest An Inky Quest & Colouring Book is #6 right now. Shes working on a third. Why is colouring suddenly a craze amongst grownups

  For starters The Guardian calls them terribly therapeutic6. User reviews on Amazon give us a glimpse too

  I am an adult colourer or is it colourist??? Whatever I love this book.

  So relaxing to sit down with this book and my adult coloured pencils Faber Castell7)) and just colour away to my hearts content 8.

  Not for children but I love this book. Can be used for mandala9 like concentration.

  Still that doesnt quite explain what motivates adults to colour rather than say draw or paint or just doodle. Is it about nostalgia Or do stressed-out adults feel comforted by the infantilizing10 nature of returning to an activity for small children Is it about ceding11 control of a task or making something with zero pressure Or is it something else entirely

  I asked Basford why she thinks the books have been so successful amongst fully-grown humans. She pointed to three reasonsfirst that coloring books are a way for adults who dont normally draw or paint to be creative. A blank sheet of paper or an empty canvas can be daunting but a colouring book acts as a bit of a buffer12 in this situation,” she says.   Second colouring books dont require anywhere near as much logical thought as say drawing a portrait. There are psychological benefits in zoning out13), too

  “Ive heard from so many people ranging from lawyers financial advisers business owners and busy mums all say the same thing that colouring in helps them relax. Then theres people who are recuperating14 from illness or dealing with a difficult time in their lives they too find the calming almost meditative effects of colouring is beneficial to them.

  And then there are the existential reasons. Chances are the last time you spent some time colouring you didnt have a mortgage a horrible boss or worries about climate change,” Basford says.

  Whats so striking about Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest is that theyve managed to stay at the top of Amazons best seller list as physical books alongside instant gratification vehicles that can be instantly downloaded and read. Basford hears that too She points out that her books are an activity that can be done without the help of your wifi router. Its a chance to unplug look away from the screens and do something analogue15 and fun,” she says.

  Theres a game some of my friends like to play What would you do if there was no internet What would entertainment be What would you do for fun or to relax Its a horrifying idea for most of us but as people chew on the question they get excited. Just doing nothing,” for most of us means scrolling through Instagram or checking an app even if its via the couch. Maybe Basford has plugged into a vast and unacknowledged desire to really actually do nothingto let the liminal16 brain take over without the murmur of technology as an ever-present cognitive buffer.

  Or maybe its a viral trend. Suit yourself17.

  亚马逊网站的图书销售百强榜每小时都会更新,但眼下却出现了几个“中流砥柱”:其中当然有《所有我们看不见的光》,还有尚未出版的《设立守望者》(编注:英文原文发表于2015328日)。对了,还有两本给成年人的涂色书。

  一位名叫乔汉娜?贝斯福的艺术家在亚马逊图书销售榜的前七名中几乎总能占据两席,一同位列其中的是像埃里克?拉森和无所不在的菲尔博士这样家喻户晓的名字。但贝斯福的书并不是小说――只是一些黑白画的图册。这位艺术家于2005年毕业于设计学院,目前生活在苏格兰。她将自己精美的钢笔画变成了“给成年人”的涂色书。这些涂色书大受欢迎,销量达数百万册。

  如果你和我一样,你肯定也没想到成人涂色会成为一种潮流。这些书究竟有什么魅力,可以在成年人中如此流行呢?贝斯福告诉我,四年前她第一次向出版社提出想要做一本针对成年人的涂色书,“那时成人涂色不像现在这样流行。你可以想象我提出这个建议之后他们有多沉默”。

  然而,她最终手绘完成的涂色书却成了一个奇迹:2013年出版的《秘密花园:一本探索奇境的手绘涂色书》目前在亚马逊图书销售百强榜上排名第二,已经售出140万册。它的续作《魔法森林:一本探索秘境的手绘涂色书》目前排名第六。贝斯福正在创作她的第三本涂色书。为什么涂色突然间在成年人中掀起一股狂潮呢?

  首先,《卫报》认为这些书“非常有治愈性”。我们还可以从亚马逊网站上的用户评论中窥见一斑:

  我是个成人涂色者,或者叫涂色家???管他呢,我爱这本书。   拿着这本书和我的成人彩色铅笔(辉柏嘉牌)坐下来,尽情地涂色,真是太让人放松了。

  这不是给孩子涂的书,但是我很喜欢。可以用作曼荼罗图案来集中注意力。

  不过,这还是无法解释清楚是什么促使成年人选择涂色而非其他活动,比如绘画或仅仅是涂鸦。莫非是为了怀旧?还是说重温小孩子的活动可以让人回到儿时,让压力巨大的成年人感到安慰?是因为涂色意味着放弃对一项任务的控制,或是在毫无压力的情况下做出点什么?又或者完全是其他原因?

  我问贝斯福,在她看来,这些涂色书为何能在心智完全成熟的成年人中如此受欢迎。她指出了三点原因。首先,涂色书让那些不常绘画的成年人得以施展创意。“一张空白的纸或是一张空空如也的画布可能会让人望而却步,而涂色书在这种情况下则发挥了一种类似缓冲的作用。”她说。

  其次,涂色书不像其他活动(比如画肖像画)那样需要很多逻辑思考。放空思绪对心理健康也大有裨益:

  “我已经收到了很多人的反馈,其中包括律师、金融顾问、企业主和忙碌的妈妈们。他们都表达了同样的观点,那就是涂色可以帮助他们放松。还有一些人正处于疾病康复期或正在应对生活中的困境,他们也发现涂色所带来的平静和几乎像冥想一样的效果令他们受益匪浅。”

  此外,还有一些跟存在有关的原因。“你上一次花时间涂色时,恐怕还没有房贷和讨厌的老板,也没有对气候变化的担忧。”贝斯福说。

  《秘密花园》和《魔法森林》的惊人之处在于,它们竟然能以实体书的形式稳居亚马逊图书畅销榜的前列,与那些可以即刻下载阅读并提供即时满足的介质比肩。贝斯福也了解这一情况,她指出,给她的书涂色是一项不需要无线路由器就可以进行的活动。“人们可以借此机会拔掉电源,把眼睛从屏幕上移开,做一些(和上网)同样有趣的事情。”她说。

  我的一些朋友喜欢玩一个游戏:假设没有网络,你会做些什么?那时的娱乐活动会是什么?你会做什么来消遣或放松?对于我们中的大多数人来说,这是个可怕的设想,但细想一下这个问题,人们会变得兴奋起来。对于大多数人而言,就算是躺在沙发上,“无所事事”也意味着浏览Instagram (编注:一款图片分享软件)或者刷应用软件。或许贝斯福触及了人们那广泛存在却被忽视的愿望,那就是真正什么事都不做――让大脑在最无意识的状态下接管一切,不再让技术充当寸步不离的认知缓冲带。

  又或许,涂色书只是一次病毒式的流行。随你怎么想都行。

  1. All the Light We Cannot See:《所有我们看不见的光》,美国作家安东尼?多尔(Anthony Doerr 1973~)创作的以二战为背景的小说,获2015年普利策小说奖。

  2. Go Set a Watchman:《设立守望者》,美国作家哈珀?李(Harper Lee 1926~)的新作。哈珀?李是美国最重要的当代作家之一,她在1960年发表《杀死一只知更鸟》(To Kill a Mockingbird)后再未出版任何著作,因此这部新作引起了高度关注。

  3. household name:家喻户晓的人(或物)

  4. Erik Larson:埃里克?拉森(1954~),美国记者、非虚构类文学作家,写过多本畅销书。

  5. Dr. Phil:菲尔博士,原名菲利普?麦格劳(Phillip McGraw 1950~),美国家喻户晓的电视名人、心理学家、畅销书作家

  6. therapeutic [?θer??pju?t?k] adj. 使人放松的;治疗性的

  7. Faber Castell:辉柏嘉,德国文具品牌,始创于1761年,是欧洲最古老的工业企业之一。

  8. to ones hearts content:尽情地;心满意足地

  9. mandala [?m?nd?l?] n. [] (佛教和印度教的)曼荼罗;任何象征宇宙的图案,通常为圆形。

  10. infantilize [?n?f?nt?la?z] vt. 使幼儿化

  11. cede [si?d] vt. 割让;交出

  12. buffer [?b?f?r] n. 起缓冲作用的人(或物)

  13. zone out:走神

  14. recuperate [r??ku?p?re?t] vi. 复原,恢复

  15. analogue [??n??l???] adj. 类似的,相似的

  16. liminal [?l?m?n?l] adj. [] [生理]阈的,阈限的。“阈限”是指外界引起有机体感觉的最小刺激量。

  17. suit oneself:随自己的意愿行事,自便

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