Mass Effect Adult Coloring Book Paperback – March 21, 2017

The media could not be loaded. Attached to this review, I will post a silent, full book flip-through video. I will also attach a few sample photos as well.Once again, Bioware has teamed up with Dark Horse to release an outstanding coloring book. This time, the book is based on Mass Effect (the previous one was Dragon Age.) The designs are detailed and fun to color. Some of them contain small and intricate areas to color.The designs include the characters I hoped to see from the game. The illustrations are by a group of artists (Juann Cabal, Ron Chan, Gabriel Guzman, Andres Ponce and Martin Tunica.) While I can see style differences in the designs, I think the illustrations work well together and the coloring book flows well in the story line. Many of the designs are beautiful and are elegantly drawn. The designs are on the right side of the page with the applicable quote on left side of the page.This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:45 great illustrations derived from Mass Effect trilogy and Mass Effect Andromeda.Designs printed on one side of the page with a quote on the back of the pagePaper is heavyweight, white, slightly rough and non-perforatedGlue BindingDesigns merge into the binding areaI could get the book to lay fairly flat for coloring by breaking/creasing the spine.Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page. If you use this medium, I suggest using a blotter page to keep ink from seeping through. I use card stock but a couple of pages of paper should work as well. It will bleed through to the quote on the back of the page, which doesn't bother me, but I want to note it if it is an issue for you.Water-based markers, India ink pens and gel pens do not bleed through the page. Some do leave light, colorful shadows on the back of the page.Colored pencils worked well with this paper. It has good “tooth” and allowed for applying layers of the same color to get rich pigment. I could also layer multiple colors well and I could blend both oil and wax based pencils easily with a pencil style blending stick.

This coloring book is great! The artwork is really fantastic and dynamic, and very detailed. I like that characters from all of the games were included, though that means there's only one of most characters. The paper is good quality, and the images are only printed on one side, which means none of the pictures are wasted. (There's a quote on the back of each image.) You would probably still need a blotter page if using markers that seep through, but I haven't tried coloring any in yet. It's hard to pick where to start! Anyone who is a fan of the Mass Effect series would probably enjoy this coloring book.

Prefer pencil but pages are single sided and thick so even marker users shouldnt have issues. Each important character gets one page, which makes for quite a lot of pages to color. Just wish there were more group pictures with more than a single member in them.

Pages are thick which is great. Overall it's a good looking coloring book. I like the quotes on the back of each page. The only bummer is that the pages aren't preforated so that makes it a bit of a pain if you plan on trying to seperate a page from the book. Also happy they included characters from each game, including Andromeda.

Mass effect, my beloved!!! I recommend for fans anywhere!

Mi única queja es que se pudieron poner más ilustraciones de la saga original, andromeda me sobra bastante.

The pictures are awesome and the paper is high quality! I highly recommend this for any mass effect fan...I should go

Being a really big Mass Effect fan I thought this would be a great item to own. For fan's of the franchise I recommend this book if you like to fiddle with coloring. I honestly did not expect so much detail in every picture in the book. Makes coloring the picture fun, and I for one did not expect to attached to the book.Highly recommend to everyone. Makes me love the game even more.