A warm peach tone can serve as a natural base, a soft shadow or a transitional color between the lightest and deepest values in a composition. The Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen Brush – Apricot 116 offers a muted apricot shade particularly useful for portraits, character design, fashion sketches and floral illustration.
Its flexible brush tip responds to pressure. A light touch produces fine lines and controlled details, while firmer pressure creates broad, full strokes. The tip retains its shape during use, allowing you to move between clean line work, coloring and expressive mark making.
Apricot 116 is a soft warm peach with both orange and pink characteristics. In portrait work, it can be used as a medium complexion tone, a warm shadow beside Pale Pink 114 or a base combined with sanguine, sepia and deeper brown shades. The final appearance will vary according to the color and absorbency of the paper.
The pigment India ink is highly lightfast and becomes permanent and waterproof once dry. It is odourless, acid free and pH neutral, and is formulated not to bleed through paper easily. Build greater intensity with repeated passes, allowing each layer to dry before applying the next.
Beyond skin tones, Apricot 116 works beautifully for petals, fruit, shells, textiles, fashion illustration and warm journaling palettes. It is also useful for brush lettering and decorative accents whenever you need a color softer than orange and warmer than pale pink.
👉 Features:
- Pitt Artist Pen with flexible brush tip
- Creates fine and broad strokes through pressure control
- Tip retains its shape
- Warm peach-apricot shade
- Suitable for medium and warm skin tones
- Pigment India ink
- Highly lightfast
- Permanent ink
- Waterproof once dry
- Odourless
- Acid free
- pH neutral
- Designed not to bleed through paper easily
- Suitable for layering
- Color: Apricot
- Color number: 116
👍 Ideal for:
Portrait drawing, skin tones, fashion illustration, manga, comics, character design, florals, botanical illustration, brush lettering, modern calligraphy, art journaling, bullet journals and mixed media.
✨ Inspiration Tip:
Use Pale Pink 114 for the lightest areas of a portrait, then add Apricot 116 across the cheeks, temples and warmer shadow areas. Finish with a small amount of Sepia in the deepest shadows to create greater dimension with a limited palette.
