20 Kawaii Girl Designs plus bonus pages printed one side of page

Kawaii Girl Fashion Coloring Book: Clothes, dresses, costumes and lots of cute kawaii fashions (Kawaii, Manga and Anime Coloring Books for Adults, Teens and Tweens) (Volume 3)

By: Mindful Coloring Books

Rating: 4 of 5

Kawaii is the Japanese word for cute. The movement in their art is to have simplified artwork that is very cute and feminine. While I found some of this coloring book to be almost manga in its detail, there is still a cute factor and simplistic facial features that moves it into the kawaii category. There are 20 designs that feature young women dressed in a variety of fashions. The girls are set in a background setting as well which adds a lot of detail to the coloring experience.

Along with the 20 full size pages, there are 6 sample pages from several other Mindful Coloring books as well.

This is what I experienced when coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper. In the comments section below, I will include a list the coloring medium I used for testing and which I also use for coloring.

20 Kawaii Girl Designs with emphasis on fashions plus 6 bonus pages

Printed one side of the page

Paper is thin, slight rough, white and non-perforated

Glue bound

Designs do not merge into the binding area. There is plenty of room to cut out pages if you choose to do so.

Designs all have framing lines around the outer edge to give the colorist a natural stopping point.

Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper rapidly.

Water-based markers bleed through in spots.

Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on the back of the page. India ink pens can bleed through in spots if you apply the ink heavily or in multiple layers.

Colored pencils work well. I tested both oil and wax-based and had good results with both. I was able to lay down good color, layer the same and multiple colors, and blend easily using a pencil style blender. Hard lead pencils can leave dents through the paper.

I use a blotter page of card stock to keep seeping ink and dents from damaging the pages below my working page. A couple of pages of heavyweight paper works well, too.