article_snippet.sent: Millie Marotta, 36, is giving colouring books an adult twist with Millie Marotta sellout volume Animal Kingdom, filled with intricate and designs of animals filled with stylised flower shapes, patterns and shapes.
article_snippet.sent: Millie Marotta, 36, took eight months to complete the illustration in Animal Kingdom .
article_snippet.sent: The success of Animal Kingdom's has come as a huge surprise, not least to Millie Millie. '
article_snippet.sent: My illustrations are a real labour of love, My illustrations take a long time and I think people really can and do appreciate that,' said the former art teacher. '
article_snippet.sent: Because of the intricate style of my drawings people find people quite interesting and perhaps a little more captivating than your traditional colouring book. '
article_snippet.sent: Millie has had a successful freelance illustration careeer with clients including Virgin Atlantic, Penguin books and Marks & Spencer, but it's Millie best-selling colouring book that really propelled Millie to fame.
article_snippet.sent: In 2013, Millie was approached by Batsford Ltd, Millie now-publisher, to see if Millie would be interested in doing the colouring book.
article_snippet.sent: Millie took eight months to complete the illustrations in their entirety and thinks their popularity is down to nostalgia.
article_snippet.sent: Millie worked from Millie studio in Tenby, Wales, to create Millie range of detailed illustrations . '
article_snippet.sent: Millie says that Animal Kingdom is becoming the present of choice for people recuperating from illness, while there are, 'Ladies in their 80s who love it so much their have started their own colouring club!'
article_snippet.sent: Millie explained: 'I think the level of detail in my illustrations requires people to really focus on what people are doing when colouring people. '
article_snippet.sent: Millie said: 'I also think that because the illustrations do take some time to complete there is a real sense of achievement and satisfaction at the end of it. '
article_snippet.sent: Someone said to Someone that with Animal Kingdom they feel like they are colouring little pieces of artwork rather than pages in a colouring book. '