I like that unlike the SuperTips, these have the color listed on the side by name. Like the SuperTips, however, the color shown (in the plastic of the cap and bottom) can be wildly different from what actually comes out of the marker, being either much darker or lighter. Like the fine point, except I've had some major bleed issues. The copper marker was literally dripping. I took the cap off and the tip dripped like a leaky faucet. I drew on scrap paper before using it on my coloring page but it bled terribly on the page still. Went well outside the desired area and blurred surrounding design. Basically just your standard fine tip Crayola markers in adult-geared packaging/marketing, but the trusty white-label markers we're used to have never bled on me like these ones. Pretty good assortment of colors for the 40 chosen, but again it's hard to be sure which marker to use as the cap doesn't match the ink.

I brought these because I couldn't find a sharpie in a flesh color. I was excited to see sandy tan in this pack... well sandy tan is orange! & unless someone gets a very bad spray tan, I haven't seen anyone that color... they are good markers however... they don't bleed through to the other pages.

I don't generally leave product reviews. These made me change my habit. I was very excited to get these markers. There were a lot of good reviews for these regarding the adult coloring books. I did read a few negative reviews, but in my experience, trying the product despite the negative usually ends up in a positive experience. There are just some people that are impossible to please. I try to keep that in mind while reading the negative. This was not the case with these markers. These markers bleed. Badly. I didn't have such a hard time with it bleeding through my pages, but bleeding through the lines. Wow. How disappointing. I wanted my lines to be finished on my pages. This is not possible with these markers. I even made sure I colored inside some of the lines (thinking it could be my hand shaking outside the lines). It definitely did not help. I feel the other unhappy consumers are correct in assuming these markers are overfilled and when you overfill a water based ink, you get marker hemorrhaging all over your beautiful picture that you are trying so hard to make perfect. This turns your meditative coloring session into a rage induced nightmare. I know I'm exaggerating, but I can't help it. It really ticked me off. If you are using these for coloring pages that don't have hardly any intricate detail, go ahead and get these. But if your book has a lot of small little details to color, go with a little more expensive ultra fine tipped marker. It is definitely worth it.

Hi All.

The Crayola 40-piece fine line markers are a very nice set of markers indeed. First, I want to say that I've purchased other water-based ink markers, and I've NEVER used a juicier set. Not 1 of the markers was dry, or even going dry. Now, you need to know that I have never really liked water-based ink markers, but this set was so incredibly easy to use, and it layed color down beautifully. I have become a water-based ink marker lover.

I have included a page so you can see how nice the colors look. You should notice, that the streaks are very minimal. Granted that the spaces in this page aren't super big, but even the spaces on the hearts are big enough that if you aren't familiar with water-based ink markers, you could get some streaks that look quite bad.

The color selection in this set is great. Now, 40 markers may not seem like a big set, but the shades that are included are the ones that tend to be used more. I like this fact. I always feel like I'm "wasting" my money by not using certain colors. I'm not worried about that at all with this set. It contains 2-grays, 4-browns, 5-pinks, 5-greens, 2-teal, 6 blues, 3-purples, 2-yellows, 5-oranges, and 2-reds. It also has 1-wine, 1-gold-ish, 1-black, and a shade they call "Sandy Tan" that might qualify as a flesh tone. I know that the regular, yellow box set does not include the "Sandy Tan". That is one of the big reasons I chose the Adult Coloring Fine Line set.

I really like the tip shape and size. There are other markers that have a "standard" bullet shaped tip, but this one is smaller. It was easy to get into the small areas, which is a necessity for me. My favorite designs to color are the smaller spaced style, and even the "tangled" style.

So, if you like the Crayola brand, and are wanting a good set of water-based ink markers, with a very good color selection, I suggest that you purchase this set.
Let me know whether you found this review helpful or not.
Thanx, Mindy

They blend well. I did some simple shading on this page. You should be able to see that I used a base color, and then added a darker shade around the edges and across the center line. The darker shade blended into the lighter shade and made the little fronds look dimensional. This is an easy techique, but it does not always look good with water-based ink markers. These Crayola Fine Line markers were definitely up to this challenge.

So, if you like to use water-based ink markers, this set is a very good choice. It is also a less expensive set. I do believe that it has the better color selection, if you are comparing

Very happy to have more fine line markers.