A quick review and comparison to Akashiya Sai brush pens.
I've been meaning to write this review for a while now and got as far as the title before life got in the way. Any hoo here it is.
The main difference between these two brands of markers are the number of colours. There are only twenty of the Akashiya Sai and eighty of the Zig Clean Colour Real Brush markers. I have the full set of the Akashiya Sai, which by the way can also be purchased in four sets of five, spring, summer, autumn and winter. The Zig, on the other hand, are available in sets of twelve, twenty four, thirty six and sixty, Both brands can be bought open stock - if you can find them. I have seventeen Zig pens which I got open stock. As I chose from a colour chart online I found a couple of the Zigs were very similar to the Sai colours when I thought they were something different. These were Light Green and Wine Red which closely compared with the Bright Green and the Rose Madder in the Akashiya Sai. The green was my mistake it turned out, I thought I'd ordered Pale Green not Light Green.
The brushes on the Sai are fuller than the Zig and the Sai pens are slightly longer and thinner. However, both behave in a very similar way and the inks seem comparible and they play well together and both can produce a nice variety of line widths.
Neither brand is refillable but I'm following the Frugal Crafter who might well attempt to try at some point as she has refilled some other brands of watercolour markers.
I did notice one thing - the Sai markers appear to be made for left handers as the writing runs the other way!
As to use I don't really have a preference. For a starter set there is a nice balanced selection of colours. Price wise the Sai are cheaper then the Zig where I live but I have found open stock Zig pens at a very attractive price on an independent pen site that offers free postage as long as you spend over £10, so you don't need to buy a whole bunch at once to make it worthwhile.
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