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Product code: 802030-013
Kuretake ZIG Art & Graphic Twin (TUT-80) – Dual-Tip Brush Marker
The Kuretake ZIG Art & Graphic Twin (TUT-80) is a top-tier dual-tip marker that combines the purity of watercolors with the precision of a marker. It is designed for those who practice illustration, manga art, design, or calligraphy. Thanks to its water-based ink, you can create beautiful watercolor effects, smooth gradients, and detailed drawings with a single tool.
Key Features:
- Twin Tip Design: Features a flexible, rubber-like brush tip for coloring large areas and a 0,8 mm fine fiber tip for precise contours, details, and writing.
- High-Quality Water-Based Ink: An odorless, xylene-free, and acid-free water-based marker that is completely safe for both paper and your health.
- Watercolor Effects: As a water-blendable marker, it behaves like traditional watercolor on paper—colors can be mixed and blended endlessly with water or a special Blender pen.
- Wide Color Palette: The Kuretake TUT-80 series offers 80 unique shades to satisfy the needs of even the most demanding artist.
- Fading under light: Like all dye-based markers (including Tombow Dual Brush, Distress markers, etc.), the Kuretake TUT-80 ink is sensitive to direct sunlight and UV rays. If the finished artwork is framed and displayed on a wall in direct sunlight, the colors (especially pinks, purples, and lighter shades) will begin to fade after a few months.
- Longevity in the dark (in sketchbooks/folders): If the finished work is stored in a closed sketchbook, portfolio, or a dark closet/box, the colors will remain unchanged, bright, and vibrant for decades. Since the ink is acid-free, the paper will not yellow, and the ink will not chemically degrade.
- Calligraphy and Brush Lettering: The flexible brush tip responds beautifully to hand pressure, making it an ideal tool for brush calligraphy.
- Illustration and Manga: Use the fine tip to draw detailed outlines while using the brush tip to create smooth shading—the perfect choice if you are looking for a high-quality manga marker.
- Watercolor Techniques and Blending: Apply the color directly to the paper and blend it with a wet brush. This blendable brush marker allows you to create smooth transitions without visible streak lines.
- Rubber Stamp Inking: Thanks to its unique formulation, the marker is perfect for coloring rubber stamps before pressing them onto paper (ideal for scrapbooking and crafts).
- Exceptional blendability: Colors fuse together flawlessly, leaving no visible marker lines or overlapping patches on the paper.
- Durable and elastic brush tip: Unlike cheap felt tips, the Kuretake tip holds its shape, does not fray, and does not split even with long-term use.
- Safe formulation: The ink is acid-free.
- Multifunctional: A single pen replaces a fine-liner, a colored marker, and watercolor paints.
- Requires specific paper: This marker features a wet and rich ink flow. On regular copy or notebook paper, the ink will bleed through and the paper will warp. For best results, watercolor paper or thick drawing paper is required.
- Slower drying time: Because the ink is wet, it takes longer to dry. Care must be taken during work to avoid accidentally smudging fresh drawings with your hand.
- Not waterproof: Since the ink can be reactivated with water, you cannot apply a new wet layer of marker over a dried layer without accidentally blending or dissolving the previous layer.
The most important rule: Dual-tip markers must be stored strictly horizontally! Storing them vertically causes the ink to pool at one end, leading to one tip drying out while the other becomes oversaturated and leaks.
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