Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I’m not an artist professionally, but I have been coloring my entire life. Until now, I have almost always colored using colored pencils, with cheaper markers only once or twice. After buying another brand of markers because they were on sale, and enjoying the process but not the markers themselves, I decided see what else was out there. I have used Prismacolor colored pencils for a few years, and love them for their quality, so I thought this set would be a good bet. Well, let me just say I am addicted to these markers; they are amazing! Though I have limited experience with markers, coloring with these has been an absolute pleasure and I’m finding it very difficult to go back to colored pencils. You can tell these are artist quality; I have already been able to achieve things in this medium that I previously didn’t know was possible. For example, it was relatively easy for me to figure out how to colour without streaking, something I found impossible with other markers and therefore didn’t know was an option. Though I’ve heard these are not the best markers on the market, for their price point I think they are as close to perfection as I can expect. However, I will still cover the few negatives I have come across. Some of the markers arrived much drier than others, especially among the lighter colours. I refreshed these by pulling out the broad nib and pouring a small amount of 90% isopropyl alcohol into the marker, and they worked perfectly after this, but that shouldn’t be necessary for their price. If you do this, be careful to only add a little, as a couple of times I added too much and had a leaking mess. The other negative is the color variety. Even though this set of 72 is a great buy, and makes them much more affordable than if you were to buy them one at a time, it is missing a couple of colors I soon deemed to be necessary. Personally, I recommend buying these colors as well to supplement your set: PM 207 ”Pale Peach” for light skin tones; something like PM 70 “Sand”, PM 201 “Cinnamon Toast” or PM 89 “Light Walnut” as your lightest brown; PM 5 "Scarlet Lake" as your medium red; PM 96 “Blondwood” and/or PM 132 “Jasmine” as your more natural blond hair color; and PM 202 “Sky Light Blue” for bright blue skies. Lastly, the fine metallic pens that I received with this set were garbage and that’s where I had to put them. They leaked everywhere no matter what I tried and ruined more than one of my pages. Hopefully others have better luck. Though I'm a beginner, I love these makers and recommend them to everyone that isn’t able to shell out an absolute fortune for Copics. I’ve posted the pages from coloring books I’ve colored in with only Prismacolor markers, but they may include a couple colors that I’ve mentioned that didn’t come in this original set of 72.