How To Use Watercolor Pencils - A Beginner's Guide

In this video I'll show you how I use watercolour pencils. There are a couple more linked watercolor pencil tutorials coming up which I'll link down below as soon as they're finished :)

These pencils are the Winsor & Newton Studio collection - you can find these watercolor pencils in the link below.

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00:00 Introduction
00:38 What are they?
02:54 How to sharpen them
04:46 Swatching
06:30 Mixing
08:33 Creating little doodles
11:43 Rural Scene
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20:45 Botanical Art

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[markwandrew]

Careful Toby, if you relax too much then you forget to wobble your line, and people will work out that you are actually a very accomplished draftsman ;-) This was excellent, nice fast pace and highly motivating.

[Vicious-scribbles]

Thank you! I just re-discovered that I own watercolor pencils and have been struggling a little on my own. This will help a lot.

[marytesta]

I adore Faber-Castell watercolor pencils. The pigment just melts immediately. I have a small battery operated sharpener that works like a dream.
Thank you Toby.You always give useful information and demonstration.

Thank you

[hazelatwood]

I LOVE your video! This is my first time visiting your channel and your 23 minutes passed by like a 2 minute video. Thanks for keeping things FUN! I’m inspired to play with my watercolor pencils now.

[angelinamichelle]

Thankyou so much for this non traditional, non stuffy tutorial. The others make me feel like keeping them in the box. Your fun approach has me looking forward to playing and experimenting with them. Thankyou again!

[ReiTuG]

I love this! Tomorrow i am going to expend the morning trying this techniques, thanks a lot

[JanineMarieChrysler]

Thanks for making this video. I was just using my set of the same color pencils and they worked just like what you show. But you do so much more with them. I look forward to trying these techniques. 😎

[loril]

Loved this video! I have wc pencils and now I know how to sharpen them & use them. I need to experiment & just go for it. New to wc in general & enjoy that as well.

[JoAnneSmith-diok]

Thank you for showing me how to better use my water color pencils. Nice ideas.

[lynnedalrymple]

i have a ton of watercolour pencils now I can play with them - thanks toby xx

[mixedmedialife]

This is great bc I have watercolour pencils in the travel kit you inspired me to make. I've never liked that the initial scratchy lines don't disappear with water but you've given me some new ideas so thank you very much!

[marilynmckenzie]

Glad to have found this video today. I had forgotten that some years back, I bought some Derwent watercolour pencils and a little water bottle brush. But I can see now that there is So Much More that I could be doing with them! Thank you for your explanations and encouraging me to start using them again., 👏🏻👏🏻🥰🧑🏻‍🦰🇨🇦

[andreaneale]

I have never liked water colour pencils, but having watched this I will now be buying some to try, thankyou

[boniw]

I remember sharpening pencils in the 1950’s just like you did these watercolor pencils. I’m in. 🫶💕

[larysacherner]

I absolutely love it. Thank you very much!

[pimmsagogo]

Hi Toby. Following on from my email and how to use water colour pencils sometime ago thank you for producing this tutorial - as you promised you would! Cheers Tony👣🦎

[annipetratos]

My daughter was sorting my art corner...and she said" these are watercolour pencils" ....most of my art supplies are her old school leftovers
SO, I can try this😊

[donnabuttons]

Great video, Toby. I used them to come in at the end of an ink/watercolour illustration last night to add finishing touches and cool effects. It felt safer and was imo successful. More predictable and gradual than adding more watercolour, and avoided the risk of looking overworked.

[legottiworks]

Thanks for the video, haven’t used these materials before. A sanding block after cutting the wood off can speed sharpening. Keep your finger pressed on the tip to keep it secured to the block, rotate as you push back and forth.

[Ryan-vdrq]

You're an amazing teacher, learning so much from your great videos.