The Manga Artist’s Coloring Book: Girls!: Fun Female Characters to Color (Drawing with Christopher Hart)
By: Christopher Hart
Rating: 5 of 5
In this new book, Mr. Hart has set his girls in with design elements in the background. Sometimes flowers, sometimes jewels, buttons, leaves and other various elements. Its fun to have more to color and to have the cute manga girls in the foreground. For those who enjoy manga or even just like coloring sweet looking girls, this should be a really fun coloring book.
Most of the designs are of the sweet younger style of girl while a couple are a bit more mature (in the sense of age and not of anything that might be considered inappropriate.) The designs are detailed but not overly intricate. The backgrounds are the most detailed part of the design as the elements are smaller and somewhat repetitive.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and while testing my various coloring medium on the paper:
47 Manga Girl Designs with backgrounds
Printed on one side of the page
Paper is heavy weight, white, smooth and non-perforated
Sewn Binding
Almost all designs merge into the binding area but the area is background and you will not lose any essential portion of the design if you want to cut pages out. If you want to remove pages, I suggest removing several pages at a time by clipping the binding threads. This way, the designs can be removed in total without any loss at all.
Book can be opened fairly flat for coloring by breaking the spine I still had switch the angle of the book several times to color the last bits and pieces near the binding.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper
Water-based markers were mixed. Most did not bleed through but I found that Stabilo 88 markers did bleed through when I used dark colors.
Gel pens and India ink pens did not bleed through the paper
Coloring pencils worked okay. I was able to get good color and layered well. Blending was only okay with both oil and wax based pencils having a slightly waxy appearance when I used a blending pencil.