A watercolor pencil is an incredibly fun drawing tool that combines the basic characteristics of regular crayons and watercolors. You can create a picture with it, either by drawing a drawing with a pencil and then blurring it with water, or by imposing lines with watercolor pencils on an already moistened sheet of paper. An important advantage of watercolor pencils is the brightness and freshness of the work performed with their help.
Features of drawing with watercolor pencils
Drawing with watercolor pencils is much more interesting than ordinary pencils. They perfectly cope with the task of obtaining a tone of any brightness and saturation, allow you to draw small details, create textured images, fill a drawing with bright accents and add the necessary depth to it.
The main feature of drawing with watercolor pencils is the need to use special watercolor paper.
In addition, the use of watercolor pencils allows you to correct and eliminate inaccuracies in the drawing even in the process of drawing on dry, which cannot be done while creating a picture using watercolors.
Watercolor pencils are much more compact than paints. They do not take up much space in the bag, and they can be used to create sketches of objects of interest anywhere and at any time. You can blur the resulting composition, turning it into a watercolor drawing, both at the place of its creation, and in a calm home environment.
What to buy watercolor pencils
There are only two types of watercolor pencils. Drawing tools belonging to the first group, outwardly practically do not differ from ordinary colored pencils and, like them, have a wooden shell.
The second group of watercolor pencils, the so-called monoliths, are solid drawing tools that do not require regular sharpening. The composition of watercolor pencils-monoliths contains 3 times more coloring pigment than the composition of pencils in a wooden shell, so the drawings they make are noticeably brighter and more colorful.
The disadvantage of watercolor pencils-monoliths is their susceptibility to breakage, including the inability to maintain integrity when dropped.
There are not so many manufacturers of watercolor pencils. The most famous and popular among them are: "Lyra", "Sonnet", KOH-I-NOOR, STAEDLER, MARCO, DERWENT and Faber Castell. The products of all these brands have their pros and cons and differ mainly in the degree of softness of watercolor pencils. The higher the softness index of a watercolor pencil, the brighter and more intense the mark it leaves on the paper.
In order not to be disappointed in the limitless abilities of these amazing drawing tools, when you run into a fake, you should buy watercolor pencils only in specialized art departments and stores.
