I'm kind of jealous. Your stuff always looks cool. My coloring is all over the place; it looks like I vomited random colors that don't go well together. I can't "match" colors, or my wardrobe, or really anything for that matter lol. Maybe I'll give the color-by-numbers a try but it just doesn't sound as fun. 

Glad I'm not the only one!

I looked after (didn't babysit, as that's something I reckon you do for non relatives, and which you get paid for, Derick) my 2 yo (nearly 3 yo) and 9 mth old nieces today. The 2 yo wanted to do some drawing, so I got the pad and pencils out for her. She just scribbled - I'm sure my kids were drawing rudimentary people by now - but she did draw a pretty good circle and said it was the sun.  I offered to colour it for her, she agreed, and I did, but I have to admit I haven't the patience for more. Nor the skill, it was a pretty poor effort   yours are great though, I love today's one  

Honestly, there is no WRONG way to color     Just do whatever feels right to you and it will be right!

I'm a bit crippled by the desire to keep things "realistic," but I'm trying to get over that.

I'd love to see what other people are coloring.   Please feel free to add your own pictures in the comments here or I could start a group blog and people that want to post their work or other coloring related posts can just let me know and I'll give you access to the blog so it's more of a community project than my personal blog.

I find that I gravitate to certain colors over and over. I do mandalas and knots for the most part.  And typically I manage to work my way through chakra colors.  I just go with it.

I use the same colors a lot, which you will probably start to notice as I post more pages.   I also just have certain pens/pencils that I love more than others so I use those a lot.

You really can't do anything wrong

Your 2 year old could draw people?! Dang! My two year old can scribble and that's it. He actually shows no interest in it though so he's only done it a handful of times.

By the  time she was nearly three she was drawing a rough circle with stick arms and legs, and dots for eyes.  I don't think this is indicative of artistic talent though, as at 19 she hasn't progressed much further  so don't worry, Clara!