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Brush Pen Calligraphy Must-Haves
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items My brush pen calligraphy favorites! These are the brush pens, paper, and lettering supplies that I actually use every day. Whether you're just starting your lettering journey or looking to level up and improve your skills, here is where you'll find m...
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Brush Pens
Practice Paper
Other Essentials
3 Brush Pens That Fixed My Lettering
Brush Pens
All the brush pens! These are my tried-and-true favorites for brush pen calligraphy, whether you're just starting out or have been practicing for awhile!
These are amazing brush pens with two different brush pen tips - a bigger one for big, bold lettering and a smaller fine tip for monoline lettering. There are a ton of colors and packs, so they're a lot of fun to play around with. The big brush tip i...
Tombow Dual Brush Pens - Galaxy Colors
These brush pens are amazing for beginners. The pack comes with two pens - one hard tip and one soft tip. Start with the hard tip and as you practice you can start bringing in the soft tip as well. It's more flexible, so you'll need to control it mor...
Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pens - Soft and Hard Tips
Love these brush pens with two different brush pen tips - a bigger one for big, bold lettering and a smaller fine tip for monoline lettering. There are a ton of colors and packs, so they're a lot of fun to play around with. The big brush tip is super...
Tombow Dual Brush Pens - Tropical
Love these for brush pen calligraphy! I find them to be somewhere between the two Tombow Fude markers, so they're a bit of a ‘best of both worlds’ situation and fantastic for beginners and pros alike.
Pentel Fude Touch Sign Pen Set of 3 - Black
Another great set of brush pens from Tombow! These are the primary colors, which are solid options to have when you're starting out. Also great when you want to mix them together and make other colors :)
Tombow Dual Brush Marker - Primary Colors
The color version of the Pentel Fude Touch Sign Pen… and there are so many colors! By far one of the best color selections for a small nib brush pen. They're a great option for spicing up your lettering practice, too, as they're great for beginners b...
Pentel Brush Touch Sign Pen - Set of 24 Colors
These are a new favorite! There are a few versions floating around, so make sure you're getting the ones linked as I don't like the others without the little ‘ink tank’ just below the nib as much. These have a great paint-like ink consistency and act...
Sharpie Creative Water Based Paint Markers - 12
These Writech pens are newer to me, but they have been a fantastic new brush pen find. They are great for lettering practice and for beginner calligraphy. It also doesn't hurt that they come in a ton of fun color options!
WRITECH Arts Brush Tip Marker Pens 12 Pastel
A lovely addition to my lettering supplies! These pens have a medium nib that is pretty flexible. They do take some control to get clean transitions, but the colors are gorgeous and you get such lovely downstrokes!
Kuretake ZIG FUDEBIYORI Brush Pens 12 color set
Practice Paper
The right paper is essential to make sure your brush pen nibs stay in great shape. These super smooth options are my go-tos for lettering practice. Tip: If you're using lettering practice sheets to practice making letters, use the tracing paper over ...
Lovely paper for lettering! It's super smooth to keep wear and tear on your brush pen nibs down. The graph pattern is also great for practicing lettering and keeping your lines straight.
Rhodia Graph Notepad
Tracing paper is great for lettering practice! It's super smooth finish helps to keep your nibs from fraying and wearing out.
Tracing Paper
Great tracing paper for lettering practice! Pop it over a lettering practice sheet so you can trace the letters easily and work on your muscle memory!
Strathmore 300 Series Tracing Pad
Amazing paper for brush lettering practice - super smooth to keep wear and tear on your nibs down and comes in a pack of 500(!) which makes it a super economical and long-lasting option!
HP Printer Paper 8.5x11 Premium 24 lb 500
Another great paper option from Rhodia! This one has dots, so a little less intrusive than the graph version and still the same super smooth surface. Comes in multiple sizes too so you can take your lettering practice on the go!
Rhodia Dot Pad
Other Essentials
There are a few essentials in my brush lettering supplies pouch that I can't live without. They're not the brush pens themselves, but supporting characters that help me sketch and practice my lettering with ease, making sure my final piece is the bes...
Pencil sketching is the very first step in my lettering process. I always use them to sketch out new ideas and layouts and these are the best! They come in a set of 6 Pencils with varying softness in the lead (6B, 4B, 2B, B, HB, 2H) and my favorites ...
STAEDTLER Mars Graphite Pencil - Set of 6
During my initial sketching process I use a very basic notebook, just like this one. They're great to keep things in line, sketch out layouts, and work through new ideas. Super simple, super economical and it helps you keep all the random sketches in...
Five Star Spiral College Ruled Notebook
Love, love, love these for lettering practice and composition work. They're compact and fit neatly inside my lettering supplies pouch. The eraser is retractable so you don't get broken bits everywhere and they last a long time! I also love that they'...
Pentel Clic Retractable Eraser with Grip, 3-Pack
3 Brush Pens That Fixed My Lettering
These are the three brush pens that drastically improved my lettering practice! When you're beginning to learn brush pen calligraphy, it can be overwhelming to sort through all of the brush pen options that are available. Once I learned what the righ...
Once I discovered this pen, all of my lettering changed! It was just what I needed when I started out learning brush calligraphy and I recommend it to anyone beginning their lettering practice. It has a small, hard tip that isn't super flexible so yo...
Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen | Hard Tip
This pen is a great follow-up to the hard tip version. It's got the same great qualities for learning calligraphy, but gives you just a bit more flexibility. A great way to level up your lettering practice because it helps you learn how to control th...
Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen | Soft Tip
I love this one because it's a middle ground between the two Tombow pens. It's got good flexibility like the soft tip (but not too much) but more bounce back like the hard tip has so it's a little easier to control on transitions. After 10 years, thi...
Pentel Fude Touch Sign Pen Set of 3 - Black