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Best Metallic Pens, Markers & Pencils

January 13, 2025 By Christine Faith Art Leave a Comment

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Best Metallic Pens, Markers & Pencils

Metallic marks make a statement in your pieces from a Steampunk coloring page to a piece of mixed media art, sometimes a metallic mark on your work makes it go from ok to wow! I’ve gone through my stash of metallic markers, pens and pencils to bring you the best options for both coloring and art.

METALLIC PAINT MARKERS

Posca Paint Markers – Metallic, Set of 8, Medium Tip

Posca paint markers are a favorite of artists who want to make precise marks in their work that will cover any and all art supplies as well as pretty much any surface including glass, plastic, papers and more. You pump them to prime and then draw and mark your piece of art. They are fabulous to use to paint rocks. Also available at Joggles & Amazon.

Molotow Metallic Paint Pens

Molotow are similar to Posca’s except that they are refillable so more economical and flexible. I’ve never tried them but many artists like them better than Posca pens. They are on my wish list.

Sakura Pen-Touch Paint Markers

METALLIC PENS

For gold and silver pens I really love the Uniball Gel Impact set which comes with a gold, silver and white. I use these every year for holiday cards and tags. For bright colors Gelly Roll pens will always be my favorite. I started scrapbooking back in the 80’s and when I started coloring in 2016, my Gelly Roll pens were still working. Pretty miraculous for a gel pen. I talk about these extensively on my gel pens review page but I’ll go into the metallic details here as well.

The thing to remember with Gelly Roll pens is that the metallic ones have glitter tops and the glitter pens have shiny tops. This is confusing but consistent in the brand.

Gelly Roll Metallics come in these sets as well as the set with each and every pen and color that Gelly Roll makes and individual colors. If you have a Michaels nearby, they have decent availability in indivdual and small sets (I’ve never seen the large set there).

Dark Metallic Colors, Medium Tip, Set of 5 – Includes one each of Sepia, Burgundy, Hunter Green, Blue/Black, and Black.

Hot Metallic Colors, Medium Tip, Set of 5 – Includes one each of Metallic Gold, Metallic Silver, Metallic Blue, Metallic Emerald, and Metallic Purple.

Assorted Metallic Colors, Medium Tip, Set of 10 – Two Metallic Gold pens and one each of Metallic Purple, Metallic Copper, Metallic Red, Metallic Silver, Metallic Pink, Metallic Green, Metallic Blue, and Metallic Emerald.

Metallic Gel Pens on Amazon -1.0 Metallic: 2 Gold, Silver, Copper, Blue, Purple, Pink,  Green, Teal and Red Click to Order Amazon US   ~  UK  ~  Canada

METALLIC MARKERS

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Metallic Markers

METALLIC COLORED PENCILS

I have never found any colored pencils that really are the metallic feel that you can get straight out of a paint 🎨 pen or marker. I do like the Derwent Metallic set, while they aren’t super shiny they DO give the impression of metal particularly when you are coloring Steampunk images and you want it to look more weathered.

This colorist offers a great video tutorial with how to use basic Poly’s & Prisma’s to get a metallic effect on your images.

The brand that was recommended in the Coloring Book Reddit group was the KALOUR Metallic Set. Reviewers said they were creamy, colors are beautiful and while not shiny like we noted earlier, they give an interesting effect and can be burnished to a higher sheen. The big set of metallic Kalour pencils are available here. There is also a set of 180 colored pencils with 12 metallic colors. They are said to be a great budget option so I may be adding them to my budget friendly coloring supplies soon.

Metallic paint pens by Posca
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