The #1 SECRET to Painting With Water-soluble Pencils

I hope you enjoyed this video! What are your go to supplies with water-soluble pencils? If you want to learn my techniques, this is where to find the Patreon tutorial for this artwork (or browse all classes and tutorials from my website, link in video description): bit.ly/40AcnXi

Thank you for the great tip about using hot press paper. I find it interesting that Inktense continue to state that the ink in Inktense will not lift once dry, when I'm sure all of us have found this to be untrue. I love the intensity of the Inktense colors and pair them with the muted tones of Derwent Graphitint, both pencils and watercolor pan sets.

I always understood that dipping a watercolour pencil in water was a no-no as it wicks the water up into the lead and therefore makes it just like an ordinary coloured pencil

Beautiful painting and very helpful video, thank you! I know how to do a blurred background now 💖

Brilliant !!!! So happy youtube suggested this video to me ! Thanks for the tips !

Thank you for this video! Please show us more videos with especially Inktense pencils. I feel they behave slightly different to for example Albrecht Duerer watercolour ones and would love more videos about them. 💖

What a great idea! The strength and weakness both of watercolor pencils are their texture. Consequently, they are great to add texture to a watercolor painting.

Thanks for instructing so clearly and with such fine detailing beauty.

The technique you show (using the pencils like watercolor pans) is a wonderful way to take advantage of Inktense's ability to layer without any muddling--- a lot like watercolor itself, when doing glazes, but without watercolor's necessary long drying time between layers. But I'm a drawer so using the pencils directly on dry paper is non-negotiable for me. I've been looking for papers that will leave no pencil stroke marks. I tried literally dozens of paper samples and found that hot press papers are the worst for this (obliterating the stroke mark) probably because of their sizing issues. Among the cold press papers, there was a big range of effectiveness for this performance characteristic. My top choices right now for dry Inktense application are Fabriano Artistico and Strathmore 500 cold press. Still, even with them, technique is all-important and also some Inktense colors just don't activate as well. I've become a bit of a paper nerd since collecting all these samples so thank you so much for drawing attention to paper!

Thank you. How you made the blurred background was very interesting! And the tips about the paper too!

I just love the painting with the orange berries, just beautiful! Love the other one too, but the first one is just gorgeous ❤️

Thank you for this! I finally got these pencils on amazon prime day, and I absolutely love them! So good to learn new tips ☺

YOU HAVE ONE HUNDRED INKTENSE PENCILS??? omg i’m so jealous, AND happy you’re sharing 🥰🥰

I was so waiting for the content you are sharing. Thank you! So good to hear from someone like you, what are my insight, experience, and thoughts about papers, inktense, and all the things you are talking about, but the rest of the content creators don't mention here on YouTube. I learnt the harder way but efficiently, by own experience these things about paper.. I have not much time for videós, it is watching or doing, for me. I think I will try out skillshare, after 2 years of learning curve now I feel like I have "skills" to improve 😂 or at least, to learn and develop skills. And to not be scared of drawing or painting. Much love, thank you for sharing your art and techniques! ❤

I have been able to lift from watercolor paper with the Derwent pencils, but not in a regular sketchbook paper. I've tried applying wet on wet and dry to wet, but no lift there. I love the vibrant colors tho, such fun effects! ❤

Thank you so much for this I just got back to using my inktense pencils, and I forgot about the right paper thank you so much

Thank you for this brilliant video. What a wealth of knowledge passed on , and gorgeous painting! I really enjoyed it 🎉🎉🎉

I haven’t tried it myself (as it’s pretty expensive!) but I’ve seen that Derwent offer their own watercolour paper, called Inktense Paper, specifically for these pencils. 🙂

This tutorial has been super helpful to me. Thank you so much. ❤

The Derwent colored pencils are wonderful to work with, and I’m becoming more at ease using them. I would consider the new pencils, I prefer a set, because the colors are like a rainbow! Thank you for sharing this beautiful video, Karen Dirmish, learner 9:26 9:26 9:26