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oh I forgot to add something xD.
All paints are made by ground pigments versus the binding. High quality paints and colors like Cadmium Red, Cobalt blue have real cadmium and cobalt in them there for by default are expensive. The higher end paints use less diluted materials and there for drives the cost up. It is the same with color pencils. Crayola is affordable because it uses a lot of wax to pigment ratio versus prisma that uses more pure pigments and less binding. The same with the markers, regular markers are just water based inks where as Copics and Prismas uses Alcohal which allow them to be blendable.