47 Manga Girl inspired designs by Christopher Hart – printed one side of the page

Girl Power!

By: Christopher Hart

Rating: 5 of 5

I have another coloring book by this artist and another one on the way. I enjoy coloring manga characters and Christopher Hart is one of the better artists with respect to this type of characters in coloring books.

These are designs of girls and can range from a headshot to a full body pose. The designs all have backgrounds (mostly in a wall paper style.)

The backgrounds are there only as a backdrop to the girl, so the repeating patterns there don’t bother me. I can either choose to make them fade away using monochrome colors or bring them to life with bright and contrasting colorings.

The girls are the “thing” in this book and they are really well done. My husband likes to color this style of book as well, so either a tug-of-war ensues or we each buy our own book. This is one where we had to get two.

The designs are detailed because of those backgrounds. Otherwise, the girls are fun and fairly easy to color. I hope Mr. Hart continues to bring his artwork to coloring books in the future. I now he has a Christmas Chibi book that is winging its way to me as I write this. Look for that review soon!

This is what I found in this coloring book

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

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. I found I prefer a liquid blending medium when using pencils in this book.

Here are some photos from the book: