Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

These are so good, I will be ordering more as backups so I am never stuck in mid-project without the color I need. I have used these on a bunch of surfaces, but they work best on smooth, non-porous surfaces. I have used them to sketch and illustrate artwork as well as customize shoes, cleats, headphones. They are filled with an opaque fluid of bold and bright color. During the creation process, they clean up easily. If you make a slip up, it will almost instantaneously wipe off. However, the paint dries really fast (15-30 seconds max usually) and once it does, it's pretty dang durable. On smooth surfaces will easily cover with one coat. On porous fiber-based surfaces like a pair of untreated canvas Vans I did, the color needed 2-3 coats as it would soak in. This is to be expected but these markers performed so well on everything else I used them on so I thought, "What the heck. Let's try it." Even on untreated canvas, they perform much better than any other paint markers (store brand and Sharpie) I purchased at Michael's. The other nice thing is that they get used every couple of weeks or so, but they somehow stay ready to write. Other paint markers I use have been drying up after the first use and getting them going again weeks later is almost impossible. Durability has been pretty good so far. I scratched a piece of art really bad and was expecting a bit of damage. In the end, there was definitely a scratch there but it was understated for the blow it took and was easy to fix with the markers in about 15 seconds. I was also able to use an aerosol can of clear coat over the finished artwork created with these pens and there were no chemical interactions, cracking, shrinking, etc. And that was a poorly prepped surface. I have gone out of my way to throw everything at these pens, but they perform at a really high level every time. In the images I attached for reference, the markers were the only things used on the black surfaces of the sketchbook cover, headphones and top of the cycling shoes/cleats. On the bottom of the cleats, the marker work was covered with clear coat as added protection. The shoes were well used before I did the art, so the bottoms were already chewed up and the paint laid down really well and with tight lines. In the sketch on paper, the paint markers were used in combo with traditional brush markers. The painted marker parts were the highlights (works really great for that) and the light blue background graphic.