Color Your Own Young Marvel by Skottie Young
By: Skottie Young
Rating: 5 of 5
This coloring book is simply excellent fun. For anyone who enjoys Marvel Comics, the designs in this book can bring a smile to your face. Who would think that the good guys and the bad guys were such adorable youngsters.
As soon as the coloring book arrived, my husband and I started a bit of a tug-of-war over it. I won but we are ordering a copy for him as well. I’m hoping to see more of this type of comic coloring book in the future. The printing and publishing of the book is spot on with one sided printing and perforated pages.
I plan on doing some designs in the traditional colors of garb associated with each character but then I want to play a bit with color and give them my version of their costume. My only problem with the book was deciding which character(s) to start with. I definitely did not start with the first page and go from there. I looked for something fun and found Deadpool. He was fun and easy to color with alcohol-based markers with a little colored pencil accent as well.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my color medium on the paper:
59 Young Marvel character designs in a slightly smaller format
Designs are printed on one side of the page
Paper is medium weight, white, slightly rough, and perforated
Glue bound but you can easily remove pages at the perforations
Design may cross over the perforations by a tad but nothing of importance will be lost if you remove a page from the book.
Easy to get at all corners of the design (though many designs reach extend border of the page on three sides.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper
Water-based markers, India ink pens, and gel pens all leave colorful shadows on the back of the page.
Colored pencils work well with this paper. I was able to get good color, blend, and layer well with both wax and oil based pencils. Hard lead pencils can dent through the page.
I recommend either removing the page from the book to color or putting a safety blotter page under the page you are working on. That will keep the pages below safe from seeping ink or dents.