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Ballpoint Pen

Ballpoint pen repeats a real pen, so the max size is limited because there are no giant ballpoint pens. 

Features: size and opacity depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more thin and transparent, but it always has a little bit of ink on stroke start. 

Recommended style: Better draw by fast short and straight strokes just as commonly used in drawing with a real pen

Palette: Ballpoint pen has 3 factory colors: blue, red, green. 

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Mechanical pencil

Mechanical pencil is the digital-analog of classic Japanese mechanical pencil. This is a thin line pencil. 

Features: size and opacity depending on stroke speed but lines are more uniform than ballpen’s line. 
Perpendicular angle makes the pencil less sensitive to canvas texture.

Recommended style: Good for hatching, cross-hatching, scribbling, and also for long straight lines. 

Palette: 2 hardness presets. 

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Colored pencil

Colored pencil draws granular wide lines. 

Features: opacity depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more transparent. Very sensitive to the brush angle. The parallel angle gives wide strokes, the perpendicular angle makes the line bolder.

Recommended style: It’s good for fast hatching and shading. You can hatch without lifting a pencil.

Palette: Color pencil has its own color library. 

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Classic pencil

The classic pencil is a flat shading pencil.

Features: opacity depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more transparent. Very sensitive to the brush angle. The parallel angle gives wide strokes

Recommended style: Good for fast sketches and shading. 

Palette: 5 hardness presets.

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Metallic gray pencil

“Metallic gray pencil” is a simple pencil with a square lead.

Features: size and opacity are a little bit depending on stroke speed. This pencil gives more stable and straight lines than other pencils. 

Recommended style: Good for hatching, cross-hatching, scribbling, and also for smooth details.

Palette: 5 hardness presets. 

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Thin-Line Black pencil

“Thin-line black pencil” draws granular wide lines like a real long lead pencil. 

Features: size depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more thin. Very sensitive to the brush angle. The parallel angle gives wide strokes, the perpendicular angle makes the line bolder.

Recommended style: It’s good for fast hatching and shading. You can hatch without lifting a pencil. This pencil is very similar to the “Colored pencil” but gets narrower with faster strokes. Also, “Black pencil” ignore canvas texture.

Palette: 5 Hardness presets. 

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Marker pen

“Marker pen” is the digital-analog of watercolor marker pen. It has flat wide lead.

Features: opacity a little bit depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more transparent, but it always has a little bit of ink on stroke start.  The perpendicular angle makes the stroke thinner and bolder. Blends colors like a watercolor brush.

Recommended style: Good for smooth blending and detailed color pictures.

Palette: “Marker pen” has own color library. 

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Graphite Stick

Graphite stick is a very natural tool for drawing and shading. It gives very wide and textured stroke.

Features: The parallel angle gives wide strokes. The Graphite stick blends colors a little bit. 

Recommended style: Good for expressive drawing, sketching, and shading.

Palette: 3 graphite presets:
4B – and not depending on canvas texture. Has own texture. 
2B – has its own texture but depending on canvas texture.
HB – depending on canvas texture, but don’t have its own texture. So this preset looks very different on smooth paper.  

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Blending stump

Blending stump irreplaceable thing for smooth blending. This tool doesn’t draw but only blending. Also, it can be used as a smooth eraser. 

Features: Draws paint further with a fast movement.

Recommended style: Smoothing and blending any art-styles. 

Palette: 3 presets:
6340: Smoothing with the current layer and transparent pixels, and erase a little bit
6341: Only Smoothing with the current layer and transparent pixels.
6342: Smoothing with all underlayers and canvas, also, it has some transparency reduction limit for every stroke.

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Soft pastel 

“Soft pastel” is a digital analog of oil pastel.

Features:  The perpendicular angle makes the stroke thinner. Blend colors. 

Recommended style: Soft painting with visible texture.

Palette: “Soft pastel” has its own color library. 

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Hard pastel

Unlike “Soft pastel”, “Hard pastel” is more like chalk

Features:  The perpendicular angle makes the stroke thinner. No blends colors and give more texture unlike blending tools. 

Recommended style: Adding texture

Palette: “Hard pastel” has its own color library. 

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Highlighter

Highlighter” is the big flat marker.

Features: opacity depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more transparent, but it always has a little bit of ink on stroke start.  The perpendicular angle makes the stroke thinner and bolder. Blends colors a little bit.

Recommended style: Good for text, graffiti tags, fill areas. 

Palette:Highlighter” has its own 5 “factory” colors. 

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