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The art pen
- The Grip Pen, the Art Pen, and the Airbrush Pen all have 2,048 levels of pressure plus an eraser tip. In addition to the five degrees of freedom that the standard Grip Pen and the Airbrush Pen feature, the Art Pen adds a sixth degree of freedom: barrel rotation. The Art Pen is capable of capturing all of the combined motions of the artist's hand. As such, the Art Pen is the stylus to have for maximum expressive mark making. Because the stylus senses barrel rotation, it's perfectly matched with non-symmetric dab shapes. Let's take a look. I want to start off by just showing you the difference between the Art Pen and the Grip Pen because they're, look, very similar. In fact, I've used one of these little rings that are supplied with the brushes to keep them separate for myself, but you can see that this pen has a little bit more thickness at the front, that front tip area is just a little bit different. So if you have both of them, and they're laying next to one another, sometimes it…
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