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Color outside the lines! From super fine to extra broad, browse our selection below to find your perfect fit. Check out our sections on Calligraphy, Drafting Pens and Paint Markers for additional inking options that include Stabilo Point 88 Pens, Alvin Penstix, Pilot Supercolor and Bullet Fine and Marvy Uchida LePen Fine Line Marker. Pitt Artist Pens come in 58 colors of pigmented india ink, an odorless, permanent, waterproof, lightfast ink. With superfine, brush and big brush sizes, Pitt Pens create versatile brush strokes from narrow to broad with even color dispersal...

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  Calligraphy Supplies & Sets Choose between plastic or natural wood Calligraphy Nib Holders in a variety of styles to seat your favorite nibs. Speedball Calligraphy Nibs are offered in a variety of gold-plated sizes and styles. A and B nib styles are universal and suitable for left or right-handed artists. The C style nib is a flat variety only available in the right-handed variety. Artist styles of extra fine, super fine and fine nibs produce a spectrum of fine lining and details. Nikko Nibs are a top choice for manga artists...

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Artist Grade Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils provide unsurpassed brilliance and lightfastness with the Faber-Castell guarantee of complete color matching across this brand. Composed of 3.8 mm leads glued in one continuous strand and encased in premium California cedar, Faber-Castell colored pencils resist breakage and produce sharp, fine lines of smooth, buttery coverage. Faber-Castell Watercolor Pencils contain the highest quality pigments for artist quality light-fastness. Pencils from Faber-Castell are fully water soluble, blending to create brilliant and complex watercolor effects...

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Look for additional erasers and powders in Drafting Supplies. ERASERS General's Kneaded Rubber Erasers are great for pencil, charcoal and ebony markings. General's erasers knead easily into any shape and leave no residue, just a clean surface. General's Factis Extra Soft Eraser is a super soft eraser designed for work with pastels and graphite. The soft but firm texture prevents roughing up of watercolor paper and includes a cardboard sleeve to protect against smudges. General's Factis Black Eraser is specially designed to lift graphite, pastel and charcoal...

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Graphite Contrary to popular belief, pencils have never contained lead; their inner cores are composed of graphite. Graphite is a form of carbon first discovered by modern society in the 16th century. Before that time, most writers and artists used a stylus to produce light marks on paper. However, even in the the 4th millenium B.C., graphite paint was used by neolithic cultures to decorate ceramic pottery.  That first modern discovery though, in England around 1500, was a pure, soft form of graphite that was guarded dearly by the Crown to improve the smoothness of cannonballs...

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