Daily Archives: July 4, 2017

Creative Haven Fantasy Fashions Coloring Book (Adult Coloring)

By: Ming-Ju Sun

Rating: 5 of 5

I love coloring Ming-Ju Sun’s fashion design coloring books. Whether it be historical in nature or fantasy, such as this, her fashion designs are beautiful and a fun challenge to color. This is a set of all new designs and, to me, there is a distinct modern Asian flair to many of the drawings. The fantasy in these designs are in cut and texture of the intricacy of the fashion prints rather than in some other-worldly sense of fantasy. These are the dresses you might see as an experimental fashion on a runway or being worn by a known trend-setter.

The designs are detailed and most have small and intricate details to color. These intricate areas are generally the detail within the clothing. I’ve found that sharp point pencils and ultra-fine point (or brush end) markers work well for these areas. Each fashion design is surrounded by some form of background (generally flowers) to give a more balanced look to the page.
This is what I experienced when coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper.
31 beautiful and intricate fantasy fashion designs by Ming-Ju Sun
Printed on one side of the page
Paper is medium weight, white, lightly rough and perforated
Glue bound but pages can be removed easily at perforations.
Designs stop before the perforations. There is a framing line at the outer edges of each design for a more finished look. Some portions of the design extend slightly beyond the framing line for an almost 3D effect.
The book opens fairly flat by creasing/breaking the spine.
Alcohol and water based markers bleed through to some degree
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page
Coloring pencils work well with this paper. Both wax and oil based pencils lay down good color, layer (same and different colors) and blend well using a pencil style blending stick. Hard lead pencils leave dents on the back of the page.
I remove pages or use a blotter page of card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper to keep ink and dents from marring the pages below.