There are plenty of pages that have no explicit references at all. People could have whatever interpretation of that they wanted, and so there's not even that many explicit references to smoking within the book. We discussed a lot of different stuff, but generally tried to keep it on the theme of psychedelic, groovy - but it was open-ended. I also occasionally got high and colored, so that was a really good test because that sort of changed my frame of reference around what was fun and what would maybe be a little bit anxiety-causing. So a lot of it just came down to testing it out. Does it feel like a picture you'd want to color or are the shapes too small? Or something like that. I also encouraged everyone to color their own drawings as they were doing them: You know, do a test drawing and color it in and see how it feels to color it. So I talked with all the artists about that and how certain patterns work and certain repetitive shapes work really well for coloring. The first was just some pages that are really fun for coloring are not necessarily the best art, or maybe it's better to say that there's a style of art that works best for coloring. What direction did you give the artists, if any? So we have an artist from Argentina who sent in a page, some artists from all over the United States - West Coast, East Coast - so it's really a global, collaborative effort. Yeah, when I started posting pictures on Instagram of the illustrations people started getting in touch with me, asking if they could put their art in the book. I also read that you have artists from all over the world contributing to it. We just tried the whole time to focus on making people smile and giving them something that was really humorous around the coloring activity. I got ten other artists to contribute illustrations and then I did the rest myself. A lot of people were saying, "Oh, that's a great idea, so funny" - and from there it just snowballed. I posted them on social media and asked if anyone had any contributions they wanted to make to this stoner's coloring book, and I got a great response. I thought it could be a good match, so I started working on some drawings. I thought it was a great idea to bring the two cultures together: this artistic sort of creative activity with the culture of smoking weed, which already embraces that sort of creativity. I have spent a lot of time around counter-culture people and I found those scenes and those visuals to be really interesting, especially in regards to people smoking pot. I heard about people getting really excited about them and having coloring parties and what not, but I didn't see any of them that were my style - which would have been a lot groovier and a lot funkier, a lot more counter-culture than books like Secret Garden, which are much more mainstream to have all these very intricate flower-animal patterns that are really nice.Īround that same time I had been doing a lot of drawing, line drawing in particular. Jared Hoffman: I saw some of these adult coloring books out there, and I thought it was an interesting concept. Westword: Tell us a little about the inspiration behind The Stoner's Coloring Book and where that came from. Westword recently talked with Hoffman about his just-released book, the artists behind it, and how a coloring book might help bring us closer to national legalization. Hoffman's goal was not just to create a fun, creative outlet, however, but also to provide a tool to inspire an open discussion of marijuana and legalization. Hoffman, a graduate of Cornell University now living in Brooklyn, worked with artists around the world to compiled over forty illustrations designed for "high-minded" individuals. With The Stoner's Coloring Book, Jared Hoffman has created the first adult coloring book designed specifically with stoners in mind.
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