I think it makes perfect sense that you don’t love watercolor pencils. Your natural style is all about brushwork. With watercolor pencils, the brush is mostly just a tool for getting water on the paper. It doesn’t create shapes or rhythm, as you do so beautifully in your “regular” watercolors.

I use watercolor pencils for those little bitty detail areas in my watercolor paintings that I want a nice saturated color, but need more control than with a brush, even a detail brush. For instance, tiny veins in an eyeball, the crease under the eye, a tiny line in a fingernail that people who have heavy metal poisoning get (yes, I do weird art).And, I also use watercolor pencils for texture! You don't have to wet them and spread the pigment completely out, you can let them just get sorta wet and blur the lines you made, or not wet them at all! I never use watercolor pencils for large areas that I plan on wetting. Cuz what's the point? All that effort to lay down the color and then add the water and make the pencil look like you used regular watercolors when you could have spent a third of the time.....using regular watercolors. But all in all I love them and they are so fun for different mixed media pieces!

I like watercolor pencils for sketching. They disolve when I paint over them, and I think it looks better than a graphite line.

I have never cared for watercolor pencils. To me the fact that the website says to push down hard says it all. Who wants to hurt their hands by having to have to push down on pencils when a brush and paints work so much better? Great video!

I have Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour pencils and they are amazing, they actually dissolve in water leaving no lines behind and the colour spreads loads. I'm surprised more people don't recommend them

Ok, this is going to sound strange since I am like an ultra beginner with watercolors but have you tried Tim Holtz Distressed Watercolor Pencils? They are woodless and very pigmented, They are so pigmented that when I sharpen them I put the shavings in an empty paint palette, add some water, mix, let dry and save for later use with a brush. The colors of the crayons match Tim’s line of Distress Inks and Distress Oxide so probably are not your typical watercolor colors.

I have a much less expensive set of pencils. I just use them for sketching, pressing very lightly. I'll also use them for accents. Maybe much further in my watercolor journey. Thank you for demonstrating that there are pencils to take when I'm away from home.

My first watercolor pencil set was Arteza and gosh the struggle was very real. Now I have goldfaber and I love them far more! I also recently got inktense and oh my word their color payoff is so satisfying! But since they dry permanent I'm having a bit of a learning curve. You can try painting the underpainting in regular watercolor and add pencils for texture and detail on petals and maybe the combination can be joyous when you are in a texture mood ^^

I use a scratchy cutting board, scratch my pencils on that, then paint from the board like a palette. I saw it somewhere on YT and found that it works best for me. I don't like the pencil marks that are left behind when I use the pencil directly on the paper.

I just recently found your channel and I have to say I absolutely love your videos. They are informative and fun. I only picked up watercolor last year and before I found your channel I felt like i had to be super controlled and detailed with my paintings. How you teach to be free and loose with your compositions and style of painting has definitely expanded my thinking in how to use watercolor <3

I like adding details with the WC pencils to my paintings. I like them.

I think watercolor pencils work well for details... but not for larger washes. I like watercolor markers better (the good ones). They feel more like watercolor

I think if you dip the pencil in water first it helps to release the “buttery” factor

I quite like the texture, it adds another element. Liked the results on the new york paper.

I don’t get on with them and mine are good quality. As Paul Clarke says, I can’t do anything with them that I wouldn’t be able to do quicker and easier with a paint and brush. However I have seen them used for an initial sketch under painting, on top of wet watercolour and “dusted” onto wet watercolour using a nail file or sandpaper. I could see their usefulness there and also for plein air sketching. I suppose it depends a lot on your preferred style too.

I like textured watercolor paper. I’m learning to use it. I love watching watercolor move around and blend. It’s amazing

I took a watercolor pencil class from a professional colored pencil/watercolor pencil artist.

I use Albrecht Durer which are amazing, but I always struggle with patchiness with larger areas. Maybe too much water and pigment, idk, I end up pushing colour around easily.

I still haven't really found my flow with watercolor pencils either! Thanks for all the amazing tips!

thank you for the demo and thanks so much for sharing!