The Manga Artist's Coloring Book: Girls!: Fun Female Characters to Color

The media could not be loaded. I have purchased a couple of Manga style coloring books and generally, the girl is the only thing on the page. Christopher Hart has published many how-to draw books on Manga and his expertise shows in the great designs.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 backgroundsPrinted on one side of the pagePaper is heavy weight, white, smooth and non-perforatedSewn BindingAlmost 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 paperWater-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 paperColoring 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.

Got this as a gift for my teenage daughter who loves anime & artsy stuff. She loves it!!!! She is constantly coloring in it (she uses colored pencils)... the book is excellent quality, plenty of pictures, good price... I would say it's a good purchase. In fact , I'll be getting her another one eventually due to this one will be completed.Oh if you are concerned with the pictures being to risky clothing/body wise... so far I haven't seen any that were in my opinion that bad...but everyone is different & my daughter is 17.If this review was helpful please let me know :-)

this is a really cute coloring book, it has a lot of nice designs and it's cheerful. The only drawback is that there are a lot of very intricate background designs and unless you are using a very fine felt tipped marker or felt tipped pen or colored pencil with harder lead, it can be hard to stay within the tiny areas... i use colored pencils that are soft and i have to sharpen them every few little areas/stripes on things on some of the pages because they get dull and start to look bad. i guess you could also choose not to color the backgrounds though, so that's another option.

This book is such high quality. When I got it I was honestly impressed at how the pages were made. They’re nice and thick, and don’t bleed through. This book has so many different types of anime style too. I highly recommend this to artists who love anime.

Great anime/manga coloring book; fun to ink and color in; Nice to also practice getting used to the shapes of drawing similar characters! The images also have beautiful details and backgrounds fellow artists can enjoy! Would buy again!

Perfect for practice

This is an adorable little book that distracts me when I am not colouring in another more complicated book. The pictures can be as complicated as you want, or as simple as you want. Here's a good rule if you want complicated, or shading. Pick three colours, let's go with green as our example? Light green, Medium Green, Dark Green. Colour the entire area you want to be green in the light green, then colour in the places that are darker and darkest (That you've decided should be darker) with the Medium Green, then with the Dark Green you colour the Darkest that you decided should be shaded that way. You can't go wrong with those rules, and that goes for pencils or markers, which I use different kinds of each for each book.Great for kids and adults. And Adorable to boot.

I LOVE this coloring book! Great designs and wonderful diverse styles and artwork. Full of cute details like jewelry, hair pieces, ruffles, high heels, and more! There's also a soccer player, a punk rock character, and a few martial artists! I bought this for a 2nd time just to color it again!