Color Your Own Marvel Tsum Tsum
By: David Baldeon
Rating: 5 of 5
In this latest coloring book by Marvel in their Color Your Own series, the designs are based on a variety of Marvel characters and their Tsum Tsum characters as well. The standard characters are just what you would expect from this high quality series. The Tsum Tsum characters are adorable and are presented within the designs as action characters. One of my favorite designs is of Groot holding Tsum Tsum Rocket up to give Rocket a kiss on the cheek. Fun to color and cute as well.
In addition to the fun design pages, there is a short comic story at the end of the book featuring Spider-Man and Spider-Man Tsum Tsum. It is only six pages long but is definitely a fun addition to the coloring book.
The designs are highly detailed with small and intricate areas to color. The designs are done by a large group of individuals. Interestingly, though there are many different styles represented, the book is still a great cohesive presentation of the series. There is a heavy use of black in the designs which doesn’t bother me but may be an issue for others.
This is what I found while coloring in the book and testing the paper with my coloring medium:
59 designs based on the Marvel characters and Tsum Tsum Marvel characters
Printed one side of the page
Paper is white, medium weight, slightly rough and perforated
Glue Binding
The designs stop at the perforations
Alcohol and water based markers bleed through the paper to some degree
Gel pens and India ink pens leave colorful shadows on the back of the page
Colored pencils work well with the paper. I tested both oil and wax based with good results. I could get good pigment due to the rough tooth of the paper. I could layer the same and multiple colors easily and blend well using a pencil style blending stick. Hard lead pencils can leave dents through the paper.
I use and suggest others use a blotter page behind the working page (if you don’t remove pages from the book to color.) I use card stock but a couple of sheets of heavy weight paper work well, too.