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A review by dereadergal
Pop Manga Coloring Book: A Surreal Journey Through a Cute, Curious, Bizarre, and Beautiful World by Camilla D'Errico
4.0
Camilla d’Errico, award-winning comic and manga artist and Pop Surrealist painter has broadened her artistic horizons by creating a coloring book filled with surreal manga inspired black and white line work.
At 10x10 inches with 80 pages, this book’s theme contains an assortment of animals, (wolves, butterflies, birds and several types of aquatic species), wide-eyed girl portraits, repeating backgrounds, fruits and veggies and several types of strange designs including funky robots, and even trees growing out of girl’s heads!
Overall, Pop Manga Coloring Book has both good and not so good aspects. The book comes with a colorable dust jacket, and the quality of paper is thick and smooth, which should allow the colorist to easily use a variety of coloring implements without needing to press hard, or fear bleed through. There are plenty of images of all sizes and difficulty levels that have the potential to dazzle and challenge artists for hours. However, the binding is glue based (difficult to spread open flat), has images printed on both sides, has no page perforations, and some drawings are spread far into the book’s gutter. An easy and inexpensive fix can be obtained by having the book rebound with plastic spirals in an office supply store such as Staples.
While this book is described as appropriate for all ages, it may not be suitable for younger or inexperienced colorists due to the fact that quite a bit of the artwork has fine lines and is intricately detailed which may frustrate those aspiring to remain in the lines. It is important to note that the artwork is unlike more traditional coloring books created and often touched up by design software making them more uniform in shape, while D’Errico’s manga is more free flowing and sometimes appears as quick, unfinished sketches. Pop Manga also does not include color combination suggestions or coloring tips however, d’Errico does encourage everyone to be brave and color outside the lines, so feel free to jump right in and put your creative skills to the test, or just have fun going with the flow wherever it may lead you.
The opinions I expressed above are my own and have not been influenced by receiving this coloring book from Blogging For Books.
At 10x10 inches with 80 pages, this book’s theme contains an assortment of animals, (wolves, butterflies, birds and several types of aquatic species), wide-eyed girl portraits, repeating backgrounds, fruits and veggies and several types of strange designs including funky robots, and even trees growing out of girl’s heads!
Overall, Pop Manga Coloring Book has both good and not so good aspects. The book comes with a colorable dust jacket, and the quality of paper is thick and smooth, which should allow the colorist to easily use a variety of coloring implements without needing to press hard, or fear bleed through. There are plenty of images of all sizes and difficulty levels that have the potential to dazzle and challenge artists for hours. However, the binding is glue based (difficult to spread open flat), has images printed on both sides, has no page perforations, and some drawings are spread far into the book’s gutter. An easy and inexpensive fix can be obtained by having the book rebound with plastic spirals in an office supply store such as Staples.
While this book is described as appropriate for all ages, it may not be suitable for younger or inexperienced colorists due to the fact that quite a bit of the artwork has fine lines and is intricately detailed which may frustrate those aspiring to remain in the lines. It is important to note that the artwork is unlike more traditional coloring books created and often touched up by design software making them more uniform in shape, while D’Errico’s manga is more free flowing and sometimes appears as quick, unfinished sketches. Pop Manga also does not include color combination suggestions or coloring tips however, d’Errico does encourage everyone to be brave and color outside the lines, so feel free to jump right in and put your creative skills to the test, or just have fun going with the flow wherever it may lead you.
The opinions I expressed above are my own and have not been influenced by receiving this coloring book from Blogging For Books.