Hi Erika, You are beyond a doubt the clearest and most thorough instructor I have watched. I bought water color pencils about a year ago but didn't know how to use them. I learned so much today I think I'm ready to try them out. Thank you so much.
I'm so glad to hear this one was helpful, Sylvia! Thanks so much for watching and for your kindness. Much more on watercolor pencils to come. Enjoy your art practice!🙌
Welcome back fellow artists and art-lovers! 💚🙌Hope this watercolor pencil guide is helpful. *For my real-time, fully-narrated, step-by-step tutorials with downloadable outline sketches/reference photos/photos of my work/etc., live art chats and Q&A's with me every month, classes on Art Fundamentals, feedback from me on your work, weekly sketchbook prompts and more: **www.patreon.com/erika_lancaster_artist* Thanks so much for watching! 🌟
Hello Erika. I am recently retired and though I have always enjoyed drawing as an occasional hobby, I’ve decided with my new-found leisure time I’d like to take this hobby to a new level. I found this video to be entertaining, extremely informative and highly motivational. Thank you so much. I can’t wait to get started and I look forward to watching your other videos.
Hey, there! Thanks so much for watching and for taking time to leave a comment. It means the world. 🙌🙂 I'm so glad that you enjoyed this one and found it helpful. And I'm so happy to hear that it inspired you to continue on your art journey. Enjoy your art practice and stay tuned! Much more good stuff to come.
Thank you. I really appreciate how your content is so thoughtful and well organized. I have both watercolor paints and pencils and you have made some great points as to how I might best utilize each medium.
My goal is to improve both my drawing skills and my painting ones, so this, along with regular watercolors, are perfect mediums for that, but to learn as two different tecniques, as you said. Gonna keep studing them both
I really like this tutorial even though I am not what is considered a "serious artist". I do only whimsical stuff for greeting cards for hospitalized children. But I do love learning about watercolor paints and pencils! Thanks for your professional teaching method!
I've painted watercolors for years but wanted to improve my sketching and do more quick studies plein aire. Watercolor pencils give me the satisfaction of color on the go. Still a beginner with pencils so your tutorial was very helpful.
Thanks so much for watching and taking time to leave a comment. It means the world. 🙌🌟 Glad this one was helpful and also super happy to hear that you're enjoying watercolor pencils! Enjoy your art practice. 💙
I couldn't be a watercolor artist with out WC pencils. Well... not a proficient one. Water color is notorious for being difficult in fine details, I can use WC pencils to add needed details for a realistic piece. Sure I could use a pen or pencil or even regular colored pencils, but then you technically have a mixed media piece, and not just a water color painting. Also some of those other mediums dont mix well with wc, and may not be archival.
Hey, there! Thanks so much for checking this one out and for leaving your valuable comment. I appreciate you leaving your thoughts and experiences on watercolor pencils. 🙂 I'm glad you've found an art medium that helps you arrive at outcomes you love.
I have found that very dry environments, such as high desert where I live, can make traditional watercolor painting techniques challenging due to rapid drying, especially when doing wet on wet. Water color pencils are a remedy.
Hey, there! Thanks so much for checking this one out and for sharing about your experience with watercolor and watercolor pencils. This is very true! I live in a very warm, very dry environment in northern Mexico. I find, for wet-on-wet effects to happen as I want them to, I need to take my time with pre-wetting with clean water. And I also need to work fast, as well as make sure I'm using enough water in my color mixtures. It can be tricky for sure! I'm glad that you've found a medium that you enjoy and that works for you. Cheers!
Super awesome video wow! I love information dense super thorough stuff like this. Playing around with a drawing/painting while i watch and its so comforting and zone inducing to listen and watch as i do my thing. Thank you so much!
This is the first time I have seen one of your videos. This one was very exciting and shows me how to integrate watercolor paints. Looking forward to playing.
Hi, Phyllis! So glad my videos reached you. :) Thanks so much for watching. Glad it was helpful and wish you tons of enjoyment exploring watercolor pencils.
Thank you so much for sharing this! One thing I've had a hard time finding is information about the differences between watercolor paints and pencils. I've been using watercolor paint in my Hobonichi journal with success, but I feel like pencils may be better as they use a bit less water, so maybe there will be less page wrinkling. Thanks again, this was an excellent and helpful tutorial!
You are having the best hacks and tricks of using watercolor pencils and inktense or watercolor together for having very nice coloring in our adult coloring books ever! TKS so much! From Quebec in Canada 🇨🇦, 😊❤
Hey! Thanks so much for watching and for taking time to leave a comment. It means the world. 🙌😊 I'm so glad that you're finding my videos helpful. Enjoy your art practice and, stay tuned! Much more to come.
@@ErikaLancasterArt Tky so much to take time to leave a comment to your subscribers even to answer to whom ever he/she is game of doing it! It is not every artist who is doing it on theirs channel!
I got some watercolor pencils to try out because I thought it would be easier to get into watercolor with them, but the more I play around with them the more I wish Ihad just started with paint haha. It is probably because I am more used to painting (acrylics though) than colored pencils.
Hey, there! Thanks so much for checking this one out. :) You make a great point! Using pencils is so different from using a paintbrush. There's a learning curve involved for sure. But if you already know how to paint, there are lots of skills (such as color mixing) that you can bring into your watercolor pencil work, so you're not starting at 0! There's a great amount of understanding you already have. It took me a while to warm up to watercolor pencils, but I find them pretty fun now! 😁🙌
Erika this tutorial is priceless.👏 as a beginner I have been trying to decide between these two mediums and having trouble with both . I have used oils for a long time but feel that I no longer enjoy the mess and clean up. I think I would like to learn both medium. Do you have many water colour pencil videos on your Patreon channel? 🌹
Hi, Josephine! I'm so glad that you found this one helpful :) Most of the full tutorials I have on Patreon are currently pen and ink, watercolor, and pen + watercolor washes. I have many watercolor pencil tutorials here at my channel (links are in description box below this video). I do share an alternate, ad-free version of all the videos I have here on my channel (with outline sketches, reference photos, supply lists, etc.) over on Patreon, too, aside from my Patreon-exclusive tutorials. I'll probably will be creating Patreon-exclusive, real-time watercolor pencil tutorials to add into this library in the near future, though! Cheers! 🙌😊
Thank you for imparting so much knowledge. However I struggled to last the distance of the whole video. IMO It would be better to break it down into three separate videos in a series.
Hi Erika Fantastic content and instruction. However for me I would’ve enjoyed and absorbed the information more readily if it was broken down into shorter videos. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
¡Hola Gloria! Muchísimas gracias y bienvenida. 🙌 Tengo varios tutoriales completos de lápices acuareleables aquí en CZcams. Puedes checarlos en este playlist: czcams.com/video/PANqVLxdly4/video.html Si, por alguna razón no funciona el link, puedes irte a mi página de CZcams (www.youtube.com/@ErikaLancasterArt) , dar click en Videos o Playlists y allí los encontrarás. ¡Que los disfrutes! 🖌️
Hi, Valerie! I haven't combined those two mediums. How fun! 🙂 I've combined ink with traditional watercolor paint, but not pencils. Thanks for popping by!
A few great options for professional watercolor pencils are: Faber-Castell's Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencil line, Derwent's Watercolor Pencils line and Caran D'ache Museum Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils. Professional level watercolor pencils can be pretty pricey. Because they are my "secondary" medium (I'm also primarily a traditional watercolor paint user), I invest in smaller professional sets or larger student-grade sets. Some of my latest watercolor pencil tutorials have been filmed using Faber-Castell's Goldfaber Aqua, which is their student line. The color payoff is great and colors do blend well, but I have found that a couple of the pencils I've used keep breaking when I sharpen them, which is pretty annoying. 😐 It does depend on your budget and what's comfortable for you. :) It's a great medium to explore as it's so versatile!
Hey, there! Great question! It's very similar. You can lift a small amount of paint off the paper (either when it's still wet or after it has completely dried), by doing *gentle* scrubbing and absorbing with a towel. You won't be able to go back to the whiteness the paper had when it was new, but you'll be able to remove some of it. How much you're able to lift does depend on the type and quality of paper that you're using, the specific pigment, and also the quality of watercolor pencils. Hope this helps! Enjoy your art practice. :) Thanks so much for watching!
Hello! A few quick tips I have for you to get more vibrant color are: a) make sure you're using quality watercolor pencils as the color payoff is better, b) if you are using decent quality watercolor pencils try layering on more pigment on paper before activating with water, c) make sure you're not blending very different colors together (if you blend a neutral with another color, or two Complementary colors together, these will mute each other down and possibly create a muddy color). Hope these tips help! Thanks for watching. :)
Hi Erika, You are beyond a doubt the clearest and most thorough instructor I have watched. I bought water color pencils about a year ago but didn't know how to use them. I learned so much today I think I'm ready to try them out. Thank you so much.
I'm so glad to hear this one was helpful, Sylvia! Thanks so much for watching and for your kindness. Much more on watercolor pencils to come. Enjoy your art practice!🙌
Welcome back fellow artists and art-lovers! 💚🙌Hope this watercolor pencil guide is helpful. *For my real-time, fully-narrated, step-by-step tutorials with downloadable outline sketches/reference photos/photos of my work/etc., live art chats and Q&A's with me every month, classes on Art Fundamentals, feedback from me on your work, weekly sketchbook prompts and more: **www.patreon.com/erika_lancaster_artist* Thanks so much for watching! 🌟
Hello Erika. I am recently retired and though I have always enjoyed drawing as an occasional hobby, I’ve decided with my new-found leisure time I’d like to take this hobby to a new level. I found this video to be entertaining, extremely informative and highly motivational. Thank you so much. I can’t wait to get started and I look forward to watching your other videos.
Hey, there! Thanks so much for watching and for taking time to leave a comment. It means the world. 🙌🙂 I'm so glad that you enjoyed this one and found it helpful. And I'm so happy to hear that it inspired you to continue on your art journey. Enjoy your art practice and stay tuned! Much more good stuff to come.
Thank you. I really appreciate how your content is so thoughtful and well organized. I have both watercolor paints and pencils and you have made some great points as to how I might best utilize each medium.
Thanks so much for watching! Happy to hear you enjoyed this one and found it helpful. ❤🙌 Enjoy your practice!
Wow !!!! You have more teaching abilities than all my teachers in art school all together!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
You're very kind! Thank you. :)
I'm primarily a watercolor artist but always looking to explore new mediums. This is the best video out there to introduce using watercolor pencils!
Thanks so much for watching, Renee! I'm so glad you found this one helpful. Wish you tons of enjoyment moving forward in your art journey. 🙌💚
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My goal is to improve both my drawing skills and my painting ones, so this, along with regular watercolors, are perfect mediums for that, but to learn as two different tecniques, as you said. Gonna keep studing them both
Great watercolor pencils tips, love how you break everything down.
Brilliant! Simply amazing, thank you for being so kind.
Glad to hear it was helpful. 🙌🙂 Thank you for watching!
Thank you for this! I’ve had watercolor pencils for a long time and just didn’t know where to start, this helped me tremendously!
So glad to hear, Tia! Thanks so much for watching. 💚
Thank you I’m starting WC and was looking for class I love and can’t wait to get started so glad I found this video.❤❤❤❤
Glad it was helpful, Pauline! You'll be able to find many watercolor pencil tutorials here on my channel. Enjoy your practice! ❤🙌
You are an Amazing teacher, fantastic video so clear and all of the really important issiues. So appreciat your video. Thank you.
I really like this tutorial even though I am not what is considered a "serious artist". I do only whimsical stuff for greeting cards for hospitalized children. But I do love learning about watercolor paints and pencils! Thanks for your professional teaching method!
That's awesome, Loretta! Thanks so much for watching and enjoy your art practice. 🙌🙂
What a comprehensive video!Thanks so much...God bless you!
Thanks so much for watching! Glad you liked it. Enjoy your art practice. ❤
I've painted watercolors for years but wanted to improve my sketching and do more quick studies plein aire. Watercolor pencils give me the satisfaction of color on the go. Still a beginner with pencils so your tutorial was very helpful.
Thanks so much for watching and taking time to leave a comment. It means the world. 🙌🌟 Glad this one was helpful and also super happy to hear that you're enjoying watercolor pencils! Enjoy your art practice. 💙
I couldn't be a watercolor artist with out WC pencils. Well... not a proficient one. Water color is notorious for being difficult in fine details, I can use WC pencils to add needed details for a realistic piece. Sure I could use a pen or pencil or even regular colored pencils, but then you technically have a mixed media piece, and not just a water color painting. Also some of those other mediums dont mix well with wc, and may not be archival.
Hey, there! Thanks so much for checking this one out and for leaving your valuable comment. I appreciate you leaving your thoughts and experiences on watercolor pencils. 🙂 I'm glad you've found an art medium that helps you arrive at outcomes you love.
I have found that very dry environments, such as high desert where I live, can make traditional watercolor painting techniques challenging due to rapid drying, especially when doing wet on wet. Water color pencils are a remedy.
Hey, there! Thanks so much for checking this one out and for sharing about your experience with watercolor and watercolor pencils. This is very true! I live in a very warm, very dry environment in northern Mexico. I find, for wet-on-wet effects to happen as I want them to, I need to take my time with pre-wetting with clean water. And I also need to work fast, as well as make sure I'm using enough water in my color mixtures. It can be tricky for sure! I'm glad that you've found a medium that you enjoy and that works for you. Cheers!
Fantastic video. Love how you talk about our goals, as well as demo these techniques 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽✅✅✅
Thanks so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it. 🙌❤
Super awesome video wow! I love information dense super thorough stuff like this. Playing around with a drawing/painting while i watch and its so comforting and zone inducing to listen and watch as i do my thing. Thank you so much!
Hi, Sam! Thanks so much for checking this one out. 🙌 I'm glad to hear you enjoyed this one.
Very comprehensive. Well done!
Thanks so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed this one. :)
This is the first time I have seen one of your videos. This one was very exciting and shows me how to integrate watercolor paints. Looking forward to playing.
Hi, Phyllis! So glad my videos reached you. :) Thanks so much for watching. Glad it was helpful and wish you tons of enjoyment exploring watercolor pencils.
Thank you so much for sharing this! One thing I've had a hard time finding is information about the differences between watercolor paints and pencils. I've been using watercolor paint in my Hobonichi journal with success, but I feel like pencils may be better as they use a bit less water, so maybe there will be less page wrinkling. Thanks again, this was an excellent and helpful tutorial!
You're very welcome! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to leave a comment here. Enjoy your art practice!
wow! Didn't know thta there was so much I could be doing with my watercolor pencils! Will definitely explore all these techniques now. Thank you!👏
You are very welcome! Thanks so much for popping by. Wish you a lovely December. 🎄🌟
Hey Erika, Your skills are awesome and I really like the lots of information you give us. God bless.
Amazing paintings and drawings!..Very nice artwork tutorial! Good job!.👍😊
Your work is so amazing, special your mixing colour, I´ll learn about your advice. Thanks so much for sharing your work !!!
Thanks so much for watching, and for your kindness! It means the world. Glad you enjoyed this one. Enjoy your art practice!
You are having the best hacks and tricks of using watercolor pencils and inktense or watercolor together for having very nice coloring in our adult coloring books ever! TKS so much! From Quebec in Canada 🇨🇦, 😊❤
Hey! Thanks so much for watching and for taking time to leave a comment. It means the world. 🙌😊 I'm so glad that you're finding my videos helpful. Enjoy your art practice and, stay tuned! Much more to come.
@@ErikaLancasterArt Tky so much to take time to leave a comment to your subscribers even to answer to whom ever he/she is game of doing it! It is not every artist who is doing it on theirs channel!
Very detailed and to the point! Thanks a lot
I got some watercolor pencils to try out because I thought it would be easier to get into watercolor with them, but the more I play around with them the more I wish Ihad just started with paint haha. It is probably because I am more used to painting (acrylics though) than colored pencils.
Hey, there! Thanks so much for checking this one out. :) You make a great point! Using pencils is so different from using a paintbrush. There's a learning curve involved for sure. But if you already know how to paint, there are lots of skills (such as color mixing) that you can bring into your watercolor pencil work, so you're not starting at 0! There's a great amount of understanding you already have. It took me a while to warm up to watercolor pencils, but I find them pretty fun now! 😁🙌
brilliant! thank you really useful and informative
You're very welcome! Thanks so much for watching. Enjoy your practice!🙌
very useful techniques and medium...thankyou
Very, very helpful. Thank you.
Erika this tutorial is priceless.👏 as a beginner I have been trying to decide between these two mediums and having trouble with both . I have used oils for a long time but feel that I no longer enjoy the mess and clean up. I think I would like to learn both medium. Do you have many water colour pencil videos on your Patreon channel? 🌹
Hi, Josephine! I'm so glad that you found this one helpful :) Most of the full tutorials I have on Patreon are currently pen and ink, watercolor, and pen + watercolor washes. I have many watercolor pencil tutorials here at my channel (links are in description box below this video). I do share an alternate, ad-free version of all the videos I have here on my channel (with outline sketches, reference photos, supply lists, etc.) over on Patreon, too, aside from my Patreon-exclusive tutorials. I'll probably will be creating Patreon-exclusive, real-time watercolor pencil tutorials to add into this library in the near future, though! Cheers! 🙌😊
Excellent teaching
És tão atenta e concentrada. Obrigado pela aula que me deste no uso de lápis de cor com aguarela, és a minha professora. Beijinho
Hey, there! Thanks so much for popping by. :) Glad you enjoyed this one. Wish you a lovely day! Take care.
So thorough!
Thanks so much for watching, Irene! Hope you're having a lovely day. :)
Thanks so much for this wcp class. Learned SO much!
Hi, there! Glad it was helpful. Thanks so much for watching and taking time to leave a comment. Hope you're having a lovely day. 🙌
Great video! Thank you!
You're very welcome! Thanks so much for watching. :)
Thank you! 🎨👩🎨🖼️🥰
Fantastic Tutor.
Thanks so much! I appreciate your words.
Good information. Thank you.
colourful art
coloring great. thank you
very nice upload
Excellent! Thankyou
You're very welcome! Enjoy your art practice. 🌟
*Awesome video my friend is great, top video* ♪
Thank you for imparting so much knowledge. However I struggled to last the distance of the whole video. IMO It would be better to break it down into three separate videos in a series.
Thanks for watching and for your feedback, Penny! I appreciate it. Enjoy your art practice!
Thank you for the detailed video. I have a couple of sets and I feel so inspired to try them out=3
Glad to hear that! Enjoy your practice. :)
Thanks!
Thanks so much, Robert! 🙌💙
excellent work sis,thumbs up!
Thanks for watching! Have a great day and take good care. :)
Hi Erika Fantastic content and instruction. However for me I would’ve enjoyed and absorbed the information more readily if it was broken down into shorter videos. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Hi, Penny! Thanks so much for watching, and for your feedback. Enjoy your art practice.
Sería posible ver los tutoriales completos? Soy nueva en tu CZcams y me gusta cómo pintas. Gracias desde España
¡Hola Gloria! Muchísimas gracias y bienvenida. 🙌 Tengo varios tutoriales completos de lápices acuareleables aquí en CZcams. Puedes checarlos en este playlist: czcams.com/video/PANqVLxdly4/video.html Si, por alguna razón no funciona el link, puedes irte a mi página de CZcams (www.youtube.com/@ErikaLancasterArt) , dar click en Videos o Playlists y allí los encontrarás. ¡Que los disfrutes! 🖌️
Hi, do you use/ have you used watercolour pencils with ink? I enjoy ink, graphite, paint & watercolour pencils. Thanks.
Hi, Valerie! I haven't combined those two mediums. How fun! 🙂 I've combined ink with traditional watercolor paint, but not pencils. Thanks for popping by!
fantastic paintings 🌷🌷💕💕
Thanks so much! I appreciate it. :)
Very nice, friend.👍🏻Big like.
Thanks so much for watching! Wish you a great day. :)
@@ErikaLancasterArt Same to you 👍
Beautiful! Fabulous explanation. What is the best brand of watercolor pencils?
A few great options for professional watercolor pencils are: Faber-Castell's Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencil line, Derwent's Watercolor Pencils line and Caran D'ache Museum Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils.
Professional level watercolor pencils can be pretty pricey. Because they are my "secondary" medium (I'm also primarily a traditional watercolor paint user), I invest in smaller professional sets or larger student-grade sets. Some of my latest watercolor pencil tutorials have been filmed using Faber-Castell's Goldfaber Aqua, which is their student line. The color payoff is great and colors do blend well, but I have found that a couple of the pencils I've used keep breaking when I sharpen them, which is pretty annoying. 😐
It does depend on your budget and what's comfortable for you. :) It's a great medium to explore as it's so versatile!
Very helpful
Thank you for the detailed video :)
I'm primarily using watercolors and not all colors can be lifted fully. Is it the same with watercolor pencils?
Hey, there! Great question! It's very similar. You can lift a small amount of paint off the paper (either when it's still wet or after it has completely dried), by doing *gentle* scrubbing and absorbing with a towel. You won't be able to go back to the whiteness the paper had when it was new, but you'll be able to remove some of it. How much you're able to lift does depend on the type and quality of paper that you're using, the specific pigment, and also the quality of watercolor pencils.
Hope this helps! Enjoy your art practice. :) Thanks so much for watching!
I'm new to watercolor pencil art, how do I get a more vibrant color?
Hello! A few quick tips I have for you to get more vibrant color are: a) make sure you're using quality watercolor pencils as the color payoff is better, b) if you are using decent quality watercolor pencils try layering on more pigment on paper before activating with water, c) make sure you're not blending very different colors together (if you blend a neutral with another color, or two Complementary colors together, these will mute each other down and possibly create a muddy color). Hope these tips help! Thanks for watching. :)
your video was showing paint brushes when discussing mounting with masking tape
Yep. Sorry if it bothered you! Don't really see a problem with this.
Lord of the rings
Excellent video! Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.