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Due to its first-glance similarities, the large premium sketchbook by Peter Pauper Press was one of the first sketchbooks I picked up in an attempt to find a replacement for the discontinued Punctuate sketchbook.
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Some time ago, Barnes and Noble discontinued its Punctuate brand hardcover sketchbook. I’d feared this day for a long time. Here is a eulogy for my favourite sketchbook, the best sketchbook ever. I’ll miss it a lot!!
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The Daiso Graphoo Calligraphy marker is a double-sided marker with a chisel tip and a brush tip, and there are five sets of two markers, for a total of ten colors. At your standard Daiso price of $1.50 (+tax) a pair, they’re a great deal, but they’re also just great in general.
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Yes, there’s another new Daiso fountain pen. A plastic barrel, cartridge-fill pen at Daiso’s typical price of $1.50, I was especially eager to try it out after the Rosso Bianco turned out to be a rebranded original Daiso fountain pen.
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The “regular” Daiso fountain pen has been in my rotation for a few years now. It’s honestly one of my favourite pens. So when Daiso added a whole tray of new fountain pens, marked at a premium of $5, I was honestly not too inclined. The other fountain pen is still available for $1.50; how much better could a $5 one be?
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The Daiso Fluently illustration marker showed up at my local Daiso a few months ago. They’re alcohol-ink markers packaged in ten sets of two, for nineteen colors total and a blender marker.
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The Marvy Le Plume is a disposable, alcohol-based ink marker with a single flexible felt brush tip. Marvy now also has a newer line of Le Plume II markers, but these are not those!
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Now that Pentel’s figured me out and put out colorful collectible editions, I have to match ink colors with pen bodies, so here’s how to fill your pocket brush with your fountain pen ink of choice!
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Stumbled upon the Zebra Usu-Zumi grey brush pen at the Richmond Daiso. Very good pen overall, but hard to find and a little overkill for my normal uses.
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So the Ooly Splendid Pen is apparently just a repackaged version of the Monami Olika fountain pen, but the latter comes in more default color options and has an extra fine nib available in addition to the fine. The Ooly pen was impressive for the $5-6 price point and since
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