ChameleonArt Products, Gray Tones, Color Tops, Quick and Easy Blending - Set of 5

To use this product you need to by the chameleon pen which they should mention because it took me completely by surprise. You can't even use these markers at all if you don't buy the chameleon pen. So... overall this product was a flop and a strongly disliked it and the marketing was straight up bad.

Love, love, love these markers. I have no artistic skill at all and these markers are amazing for color blending. So easy to use and bright colors. I can't wait to get all the colors!

I bought the set of primary pens and two sets of color tops for adult coloring. While these pens are amazing in what they can do, I did not like them for coloring at all and would not recommend them to other colorists who color intricate, small space, pages.The brush end is like any other brush pen end in size or shape and is replaceable which is great. The marker end though is not a fine liner, it's huge and thick and will not get in small spaces or do details in adult coloring books.The blending/shading aspect is nice, but unpredictable and not for small shapes or details. The lightening of the original color is determined by how long the blender or a color top is in contact with the nib. A second will change the whole color. This might be hard to describe, but say you want a green to blue gradient to fill in a petal of a flower design that is one inch long and half an inch wide. There is no way to tell how long to have the two colors touch to achieve this. With other pen types you can color one end of that petal green and the other end blue and then merge them in the middle. Not so with these pens. I'm attaching a photo from the instructions showing you what various time amounts will give you and you can see that to get blends you'd need to be working on large, open spaces, not small detailed spaces as in all of my coloring books. Look at all the photo's other reviewers have posted in their reviews of the primary pack and you'll notice very little blending or shading in small areas, it's only in large spaces.You also cannot go back over what you have done. If you miss a little spot three strokes back, you can't go back and fill it in as you are now in another shade/color. Not only that, but if you're trying to fill in a one inch design with that blend and you hit the final color at a half inch instead, there is no way to go back and fix that. In some of the other reviewers photos of their finished pages on the primary pack page, you can see a distinct line rather than a smooth gradient where it appears they have gone back and then ruined their gradient.You also must color in one direction and one direction only. Your blend will go from light to dark, so you can't go over what you've done or color in another direction or in circles or such. You must color in a straight direction.Yes, they bleed through every book I tried them in, so there is no way to use them in a coloring book that has images on both sides.Another thing I found extremely annoying was the amount of pieces/caps you have to deal with. Again, this might be hard to explain. If you want a blue to purple blend you'll end up dealing with six loose things/caps. The first thing you do is remove the top blender/color. Then you have to remove the cap over the tip you want to use....so you're now holding three things, the blender tube, the pen itself and the cap from the end you plan on using. Now, get the color you want to blend with and repeat....now you've got six things laying in front of you. I color in bed so caps go in my lap which really mean they roll off me onto the bed and then if a cat moves they're on the floor.And my last irritation was how all the above slows you down. I color detailed images which take a minimum of five hours, some up towards ten hours, to color, blend, shade and highlight. With these pens, all that uncapping and recapping, plus having to hold two nibs together and count out seconds, is an incredible waste of time....and as my choice in coloring books is small intricate designs, you have to do that over and over and over again for even the smallest of spaces.

The Chameleon markers & Color Tops are great! They are very unique. With the set of 52 markers & the 50 Color Tops, you can make any color you want. There are Infinite possibilities. These are so different from any other markers. You will probably need a little practice, but the results are amazing!

Color Toppers for the Chameleon markers are actually really cool. You can get a lot of new shades out of them and they are easy to do. I like them.

Chameleon Colortops are the best best best addition to your Chameleon Colortones! I seriously can't imagine not using them now. These things create brand new colors when mixing and create the most beautiful gradients. And the combinations aren't overwhelming, I found that they opened up my creativity range even more. You need these if you have Chameleon Colortones!

I have your full set of pens and have almost all of the toppers minus 2 or 3 packs. I do a lot of coloring of mandalas and I stream live when I am doing it. Holler at me if you would like me to use your products when I stream to facebook mainly but also to twitch. I believe that I have right around 1000 friends on facebook.

Gave it four stars because advertising wasn’t clear that these are toppers, not the actual pens. Aside from that, the product is great and helps me shade and blend my other colors. Have only used for one short session of drawing and did as advertised. These are rather expensive, so this if used if you really prize smooth shading.

Rubbish! I ordered three packs of different colour tones and had a surprise when they arrived as they were unusable. In the description there are photos of the “pen” being used for colouring however what I received was something that only can be used to add colour to the pens from the same company. Please change the description to make clear that these are not actual pens!

Didn't realise that these are just the 'tops' - my own fault as I'm new to Chameleon pens, so I then had to buy the actual full pens too! BUT I love them, with just 10 pens (5 pens and 5 tops) you can create a range of different colours. I've only used them as a bit of fun with my niece and we've enjoyed them. I would say they are quite expensive for what they are but they do have a unique blending feature which gives impressive results for an amateur like me! I would definitely buy again and aim to buy more colours to expand the colours I have.

I thought these were a great idea except you cant use the tops with other tops only with your existing pens. Create rainbow effects and have contrasting colours running into each other but the expensive novelty soon wears off. Much better to spend your money on the brand new Chameleon tri-colour pens they are worth it , colour like a pro from the get go. I had trouble using the original pens, I just wasn't very good at it plus all the sticking one pen inside another chamber for the right length of time, never knowing when the shade would change etc....

These were on my sons Christmas list and my first thought was that they were expensive for what they were. However i bought them for him and he is overall the moon with them. The quality is fantastic and it has enable his art work to take on a whole new dimension. Would defo recommend

I wanted them for ages, but I was disappointed !!Not as easy to use as I thought they would be... there are much better pens on the market