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Learn to Use Inktense and Watercolor Pencils - Quick and Clever Techniques

teacher avatar Toby Haseler, Urban Sketcher, Continuous Lines

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:25

    • 2.

      WaterSOLUBLE pencils explained

      1:56

    • 3.

      Other Supplies

      2:49

    • 4.

      Sharpening your pencil

      2:42

    • 5.

      Dry techniques

      3:55

    • 6.

      Wet techniques

      4:20

    • 7.

      Finding shapes

      4:02

    • 8.

      Adding pigment

      4:39

    • 9.

      Activate your pigment

      3:17

    • 10.

      Bolder colours

      5:26

    • 11.

      Finishing touches

      3:22

    • 12.

      Final thoughts

      0:54

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In this class we will explore watercolor pencils and water soluble ‘Inktense’ pencils – learning the fundamental techniques and exciting tips, before painting a beautiful picture together.

My name is Toby, known as 'Toby Sketch Loose', and I love exploring watercolor in it’s many forms to create fun, vivid and lively paintings.

Watercolor pencils are so affordable, lightweight and approachable – but yet they seem so infrequently used.

In this class I want to give you the ideas and confidence to take these amazingly flexible pencils – whether ‘watercolor’ or ‘Inktense’ – and start creating scenes with them with confidence and joy.

Together we will:

  • Discover what makes watersoluble pencils special
  • Examine different techniques
  • Explore how water and brushes impact our pencils
  • Create a beautiful landscape with a step-by-step guided sketch
  • Gain confidence to go out and start sketching more and more

And, as we go, I'll give you all the tips and tricks I use to refine my watercolor and inktense pencil sketching, and the common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid in your creative journey.

No matter where you have reached in your artistic journey, what kind of artist or creator you are, you'll leave this class feeling inspired and confident in your creative abilities!

Audio credits:

Apero Hour Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Toby Haseler

Urban Sketcher, Continuous Lines

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1. Introduction: Or anything like me, you might have some boxes of watercolor pencils, just sat in the cupboard for years. We buy them because they look so fun and vivid, and you think, Oh, the control of pencils with the spontaneity and fun of watercolors. But they turn out to be a little bit awkward to Hughes. Well, today, we're going to unlock their potential. We're going to be exploring water soluble pencils. So looking at water color and ink tense pencils, which are a really popular brand at the moment. And I'm going to firstly show you how I use them, give you some ideas, the kind of techniques which can build up your sketch, and show you why they're so special and why perhaps we often a bit wrong when we start. With all of that under our belts, we of course, going to create a lovely painting. This time, a rural scene from near my hometown. It's a Cotswold barn and field. It's going to be beautiful. It's also going to be easy. And I will show you the different stages to work through that will get you confident and understanding, trusting the process so you can sketch with confidence with your watercolor pencils. If you enjoy this class, please do leave a review. And I'd love to connect with you at Toby Sketch Look across the Internet and on Sketch loos.com UK, which is my Sketching website. 2. WaterSOLUBLE pencils explained: Here, I have a pack of watercolor pencils. And over here, I have a selection of D ink tents, which are water soluble pencils. We're going to be playing with both of these, exploring why underneath it all, they're pretty much the same. And getting to understand what are water soluble pencils? What makes them special? And of course, how can we use them? Inside all of these pencils, whether it's the ink tents or the watercolor pencils, we have a pigment. Now in the ink tents, that is an ink based pigment in the watercolor pencils. That's a watercolor based pigment like you would normally get in watercolor pans. That is some kind of binder, and that's what makes these special. It means we can use any of these pencils as a pencil. We can draw, we can sketch, we can shade. And with both of these varieties of pencil, we get delightfully bold lines, we'll get subtlety of changing our mark. And we can get really light and gentle colors as well. We can create subtle effects. But what makes them special? What makes these really lovely to use is not that we can use them just like pencils. It's the fact that we can then come in with a brush, some water, and look what happens? They activate. They become bright, they become bold. We can move that pigment around, we can paint with it elsewhere. And all of these colors will become something different, something softer, something more saturated often as well. When we apply just a little bit of water. And that is why water colors or water soluble pencils are so special. 3. Other Supplies: Now, it might seem really obvious, but what do you need for your watercolor pencils or your water soluble pencils? Well, the partner, of course, I selection of pencils, and there are lots of predetermined sets you can buy. It's the cheapest way to get into watercolor pencils, buy a simple set of six or 12, and that will come with a range of primary colors, probably a couple of murky colors, some browns, and maybe something special as well. But you can also make your own selection, of course, and I wouldn't get too picky, pick the colors which call out to you, and you'll be able to have a bit of fun and explore your pencils. Ngside that, we need some kind of water. To create this page, of course, we used a big brush and a tub of water, and later on, we'll be experimenting with a small round brush as well. There is, of course, always another solution. In this case, we could use, for example, a water brush, and that water brush means, instead of having to carry around loads of water in a tub, if, let's say we draw a little loose suggestion of a landscape. What we need to carry is our water brush. Suddenly, with a few squeezes, we get the water out of that reservoir. You can see it going back and forward there, get the water out, and we can just use this simple brush to activate our colors. There are disadvantages to this. Of course, otherwise we'd all be using this all the time. The main one is that this material here, this is a very cheap nylon, and it needs to be because it's constantly being soaked with water from this reservoir. That means if we are trying to paint with it, normally, it just doesn't have the same flow and feel, and it is quite a dramatic difference. However, all you need to do to go sketching outside, or even just sketching downstairs is pop one of these in your pocket, fill it up with water. Grab a handful of pencils and a sketch book, and you will be good to get started. What they lack in quality they make up for in just being so easy to use. Now, we can use any paper, but I would recommend using watercolor paper. For example, in a sketchbook or like I've got here just as a sheet of watercolor paper. That means that your colors will have a little bit more texture because watercolor paper has a textured surface to it. But it also means that the paper won't buckle. You can see here, my paper is almost completely flat despite the application of water, and that's because it's thicker and it's designed to take that beating that water gives paper. 4. Sharpening your pencil: I want to just show you how I sharpen these pencils first because there are, believe it or not lots of ways of sharpening watercolor pencils and normal pencils. And I don't think any way is better than any other way. I'm sure they all have different advantages and things like that. But this is the way that I've always done it. So you might see this rather alarming stanley knife to one side. And that's because when I was first to learning to sketch, I had a very inspiring teacher who showed me their preferred way of sharpening pencils. And here, what we do is we just use a knife, and we gently expose the lead. Now, the reason that this has benefits is a you can expose a much greater area of the lead, and you can create the kind of point that you want to create. With a sharpener, you are very much only going to create one kind of pointy end, and that might be great. That might be the control you want. Equally, there's downsides to this, which are we're using a knife, which we certainly in the UK, shouldn't have a big exposed knife in public. It's probably not something I'd want my younger relatives using, and I wouldn't want to carry around a giant knife, in public spaces and wrist dropping it and things like that. However, this is how I prefer to sharpen my pencils. And you can just see, we just gradually whittle it down, and you can end up with a really lovely point, but you can also expose a lot of lead, like I have done here. This gives you a really wide area if you want to create different patterns on the paper. For example, with my nicely exposed lead, I could come and draw and create a nice house on our page really simply from our sharp edges, create little gentle flicks of grass. Then using this wide exposed area, I can come down and easily hatch in some shadows like so, or not hatch so much as shade because of the wide area. And so, we have different ways that we can suddenly use our pencil. We'll be exploring a lot more of this in the next couple of lessons. But hopefully you can start to see how the control you get from using a knife to sharpen your pencil is something that I value, but also has downsides. It's not something you have to do. So just something to consider. 5. Dry techniques: When it comes to using watercolor pencils, water slable pencils, We can kind of split our techniques into two different sides. The first is dry on dry, and the second is wet on wet. Let's dive into that a little bit more. So I've opened out the full selection of colors here, and you can see it's a little bit overwhelming. So normally, I would restrict myself to a few colors so that I'm not having so much choice. Today, to be a little bit playful, we'll make some choices which seem bright and bold, things which come out nicely on the camera, so you can get the idea of the possibilities of all of these pencils. And with that in mind, let's take a nice orange, red and blue from our water color pencils here. Now, dry on dry, means we have a dry pencil and we have dry paper, and that gives us obvious mark making opportunities. We can do lines, so we can create shapes on our page. This is obviously drawing, so we can draw people. We can sketch outlines, contours. We can create different textures, like we would with Ik, for example, we can hatch. We can scribble. We can make repetitive patterns on the page to perhaps be a little bit abstract like these, or perhaps we have a tree contour, and we're just creating repetitive leaf like shapes to suggest the texture in that tree. Now, this is where pencils branch out from normal line based media, media, which just makes lines. Because as we saw before, you can also shade. So you can create a light medium, dark areas of tone. So the value here is going up from the lightest to the darkest area. Everything we've done over on this side of the page is dry on dry. Then watercolor pencils, of course, become rather clever and rather special. Because we can come back with a brush, and these little shapes can become something else. They can be filled in with tone. We can create a shadow on our little chap here. We can create a shadow underneath f square, and perhaps now this is a building coming towards us. We can take this simple hatching. And it can become an area of more general tone. We can also move that pigment elsewhere, so we could take that orange and pop it in our square. Now we've got a square with two different fields within it. The same things will happen to our scribbled repetitive textures as well over here. And then of course, we have our shading, and we could leave that as lovely texture shading, or we could come and soften it out. And you'll find even as you soften it out, that value shift gets from light to dark because fundamentally here, we have put more pigment on the page, so there's always going to be a darker area. The advantage of shading darkly though means there's more to move. This pigment will move and move and move. And that gives us real possibilities when we start to think about how we actually going to use these to draw a scene. And you might start to think, Well, I don't need to put the pigment all over the page, because with my brush, suddenly it can move all over the page after I've laid it down. 6. Wet techniques: So we covered the first side of the coin, didn't we there. We have our dry on dry textures, and then the bit which makes it fun, the water, which puts the water in water color or water soluble pencils. Now though we can explore wet on wet or even a bit of wet on dry as well. So just for the sake of completeness, what we'll do? Pop out water color pencils away, and we'll pick up some water soluble pencils. So let's take amethyst, which is a nice bright color. We'll take iron green, and let's take chilly red. So we've got some very varied colors. Now, this is where we start thinking about how to use these pencils in very original waves or ways which certainly wouldn't work with normal pencils. So the first is a simple dry on wet. So what we do, take a little bit of our page, make it wet. And all I've got is a slight sheen to my page, which hopefully, you can just tell as I move it back and forth, you can see the light catching that page on the camera. Now, with any of these pencils, instead of a hard dry line, what we'll get is this lovely, soft, activated line. You can see how that changes as we move through. This again, gives us possibilities for our drawing or sketching our painting. It's really obvious with this red. Look at how it goes from to wow, punch and happy. And we'll get the same with this rather dull iron green suddenly becomes pretty happy, doesn't it? Pretty punchy. And with this green, you can see even the spreading of it out from that line. And if we watch it for a little bit longer, I'm sure we'd be able to see it spread and spread until the page is dry. The advantage of this is we could come in, so we've got our lightest to darkest, and we can actually do more than just dry and dry or wet or wet, or dry and wet. We can do a mixture where we come and add layers on top of each other and we'll be exploring more of that in our scene, of course. The next option is wet on wet, so we can wet a bit of our page here, for example. And instead of just having a dry pencil, we can come in and we can wet our pencil. Now if I start on the dry area of the page, you can see that immediately has a bolder line than up here. If I continue that into the wet, we end up with an even bolder line than up here, really punching because there's extra moisture already activating that ink. The same should be true of all of these, get this bright line which becomes bolder and bolder, and we'll do the same with our amethyst color as well. And there you go. Now, what other wet techniques are there to try? Well, if we take a smaller brush, and is going to wet it. What we can do is we can actually paint. So we can take our pencil. And we can paint with it now. This is lifting the ink out of this intense of water soluble pencil, and we can use it just to create our own essentially, it's like a watercolor painting technique to the same with the amethyst. Little gentle touches in there. We could do the same with any of these colors, and this will work with the watercolor pencils as well. This is not unique to intense. This is something which really works well with any pencil. And this is brilliant. Be it means we can have fun. We can flick. Look at that. We can flick with two colors, absolutely brilliant and just create all these effects, which perhaps you thought were confined to your lovely watercolor pans and tubes. But no, could you believe that all of these effects can be created with simple pencil and brush? And there, look, I even managed to splatter a little bit of my red in there. 7. Finding shapes: And like that, you are fully armed, fully prepared to start creating a scene. Now, we're going to be using just our water solu pencils for this, the ink tense pencils, and creating a lovely bold landscape. And in this, we'll also be to understand how the colors might mix on the page or off the page or how we use negative space. And all of these other things which come into normal sketching and watercolor painting. The first stage as ever is going to be creating shapes, but we can have a bit of a playful idea of that by creating shapes using different colors. For this process, I've simplified the equipment on my page or in my area. I've just got one set of intense pencils. Now all of these colors will be listed in the project description down below. This is a set which I selected myself. And I essentially went with the colors, which called out to me, as well as getting some primary colors. So I've got a nice red, yellow, and blue, then the secondary colors of a nice orange, a couple of greens, and some sort of murky orange browns, as well as my trusty deep indigo, which acts as a tonal or value color. I'm going to start with my deep indigo. You might notice it's a bit blunt at the moment. So as per our original lesson on sharpening, I'm going to follow through with my my technique and just sharpen it quickly. Get notice, being safe with this. If you're going to use a knife, just make sure you're comfortable and being cautious, and it's a well sharpened knife so that you're not risking your fingers in the process. But I do believe it's the easiest technique to get a bit of control over your pencil. All I'm going to do now is find the darkest shapes. We've got a lovely careering downhill here, and then we've got some dark silhouettes in the background of trees. Then coming forward, we have this silhouette and another silhouette of a tree. For me, these shapes, that's already mapped out the main parts of the scene. I'm going to move on then because with our pencils, we can create lines, of course, in different colors. Now I'm going to move into using this is the iron green. Again, still a dark color, but we're now going to be able to capture some of the closer colors where things are less washed out and really simply getting those ideas in there. This is the hedgerow that comes and juts in and around. Then we can move forward a little bit more. I'm going to grab a really vibrant green. Here we can just map in some of the shapes that we might visualize within this field coming towards us. A sense of the perspective as the field slopes down and slopes across here. That's the idea I'm getting in. But notice how I've moved from strictly lines to a little bit of tonal work. We will do more of that momentarily. Don't do too much. The moment, just map in these key areas. Now the last bit that I see in the scene is this foreground. But remember, we have lots of different ways of sketching of painting. The foreground is quite firm. So if I pop this on now, and then we add water, we have these nice foreground to plant coming up, what's going to happen is they'll all wash away, and we don't want that. So I'm actually going to leave the foreground till later. So actually, as an initial skeleton of the scene, I would suggest that this is all you need. 8. Adding pigment: So next, we are going to be using our dry on dry techniques beyond just to lines, doing a little bit of hatching, little bit of scribbling to kind of build up the pigment on the page before we come in activator and see what happens. The first thing I'm going to start with is what are the more tricky ideas in water soluble and water color pencils? That is the sky. Because we can't just get a simple flat wash. These pencils leave a texture. But that doesn't mean that we can't create a lovely version of the sky. So I'll start where I want smooth color, by just shading a little bit. We can also get our lines, the textures to match the perspective of the clouds. Notice how they come horizontal here and they twist up and around. That's true of all sky. They have a perspective. If you take a little moment to observe the sky, next time you're out and about, you have some clouds, then you'll notice the clouds get closer and bigger as they come towards you. So we've got that idea in, and then we can just apply a little bit more pigment with some simple hatching. And it's a bit scary, isn't it? It feels very weird and abstract, but it will build up to something sensible. Within that, we have shadows, so we have areas which are a bit darker. So I've gone from my iris blue to my indigo again, which we used for this line. I'm just going to do a little bit of shading underneath some of these areas. And within that shadow, we also have a sense of warmth, perhaps not so much in this scene, but very often in cloud. So this is an opportunity just to show how mixing can happen. So I'm going to use baked turf a nice brown, a bit like a burnt umber. And I'm just going to shade that in. Now, you can already see as I shade over some of this blue that it mixes like pencils would, it neutralizes together. You'd expect a warm brown and a blue to neutralize. But also, when we add it separately like this, and then we come with our water, we'll find there's even more mixing that happens later. So don't be alarmed if your colors feel bitty at this stage. Moving down. Let's come back with our deep indigo, and we can just add in these trees, these hedges. Just think about what you're doing is loading the page with the appropriate colors, the appropriate ink. It doesn't need to go everywhere. So it doesn't need to totally fill all of these areas. In fact, leaving gaps and texture might be exactly what the scene is calling for. In places you can be a bit expressive. We have a house in a distance here. So I'm going to use my red just to add in the roof, just the roof line of that house. We'll see what happens with a bit of water and how that evolves. Underneath, we've got our brighter green seven weeks. Let's get a couple of greens out, in fact, three greens. This is the difference with pencils compared to a palette of colors. You can't just mix in your palette and subtly change things. Instead, you have to make do with what you've got and then do the mixing on the paper. So here, I'm going to add a bit of this, which is a leaf green, kind of like a sap green, and I'm going to find some of the shadows I'm going to get a bit more of our leaf green where I want more light, as well as leaving large areas of space. I'll just take a moment to just observe how spacey this feels, how abstract this feels. That's a normal part of the process with water color and water soluble pencils. We're going to use this same green in this iron green just to come into our trees. But again, in the interests of having a bit of space, a bit of negative space in our page, I'm going to leave a lot of these trees just bright and bold and white. And that will just allow our page room to breathe, as well as if we want, we we to spread this pigment all over. Notice I'm using a kind of scribbly hatching somewhere between that and shading, random marks, but getting the most out of pencils. And like that, that is our next stage done. We've got an abstract page loaded with lots of pigment, and let's see what happens when we add some water. 9. Activate your pigment: Time then for our water. I'm going to come in with a big brush. This is a 1 " flat brush this time. And you'll see over the next minute or so, maybe 2 minutes that this brush will turn this page into something completely different. So all we're going to do, Wet our brush and we'll start in our lovely sky and start where the pigment is strongest, so you can move it around, move it out. And as we wash that around, we'll get softening. We'll get movement. We'll get these pigments working and mixing together. We'll still have these lines underneath, but with water moving things around, we'll end up with a lovely, interesting and soft sky, something which doesn't necessarily feel achievable as you're first laying down all that pigment. It's still got the marks of the pencils. It still feels like a watercolor pencil sketch, but now it's softened and become exciting. Next, I'm going to move into the foreground, just keeping myself separate from the sky for a moment. And I'll repeat that same process, remembering the perspective of these fields, as we delve down and forwards and also capturing some of these shadowy areas with our iron green. And this is where things look, suddenly, the scene is this bright, punchy, interesting thing, which Perhaps was hard to imagine a moment ago. Above that, I'm going to just change to a slightly smaller brush. I can control my marks a little bit more. And I'm going to activate all this indigo. And the indigo can soften into the sky. It can come along here in front of our houses, and it can create these nice blocks of color. The same with this sort of forward coming field here. And then we've got these trees, which we've left largely at the moment, as a bit of negative space. Just like watercolor painting, remember this is our first layer. We have opportunities to fix things, to move things around later. Don't worry if it feels rather abstract at the moment. We need to add a little bit of structure, and then hopefully, we'll see a believable scene emerging. But even now, you can see the shape of the scene far more clearly. Up at the very top, I'm going to use my last brush. We have our little red roofs. I just want to activate them and just create the sense of a couple of houses in the distance. Now, don't wait too long here because we're going to immediately start adding a bit of structure. Whilst the page is slightly damp, jump onto the next lesson, and we'll use a mixture of dry and dry and dry on wet techniques to just enhance and start building that foreground and getting a better sense of the whole scene. 10. Bolder colours: Now, I can't keep you long here because my page is still wet, and I want to dive straight in. All we need for this section. A is our pencils back and maybe our smallest brush. And we're going to just add a little bit of structure, some of that foreground element and see what emerges. So, here we go. Time to grab our pencils again. I've got my deep indigo because it's my closest pencil to creating a kind of bold black line. And I'm going to just add a little bit of texture in a few places. This allows us to, for example, show where our hedgline meets our field, just by creating these shapes again, the shapes which we've washed away. And do you remember at the beginning, I said, don't draw the foreground yet because we'll wash it away. Well, look how much softer everything's become. Hopefully you can see what I was talking about now. If we've drawn that foreground in, we just have this blurring of mess here. So always good to remember how our pigments work, our materials work. And with water soluble media, It's always good to remember layers. They all work in layers. There we go. That's enough for me, just a shape, sort of swishing down here. In the distance, I want these trees just to have a little more from we can see because this page is still just nice and wet. I can just softly kind of shade in and we get the effect of an activated pencil, but with a bit more control and the same up here. This time, I'll leave a bit of gap because then we have the front of the color and the back of the color working together to create the idea of light coming through more distant hills. Or more distant trees, sorry, I should say. The houses, we could even just suggest a couple of windows like. So I think they work well. A little triumph is what I'm going to call those. It's okay to be proud of yourself when something grows well. I think it's important. In the foreground, just a few little touches, suggest and texture there. Maybe what we should do is come in with our lovely mint green, do the same. And some of you may have noticed there's this purplish tinge in there. Now, again, we're working from a limited palette of colors. It's possible just to buy 400 colors, have every color available. But with watercolor pencils, water soluble pencils, often, we need to make do with what we've got. So To get that idea of purple, I'm just going to use some gently applied red instead. This is a lovely little flower running for these fields. I wonder if it's a clover or something like that. Then using a tiny bit of water, we can just soften that out. This is where we're working again, wet on wet, wet on dry. Somewhere in between, but just getting nice effect. Notice the gaps in the paper as well. Big white gaps providing space to this whole image. Now, the foreground is next, and I think it's a good place to start at this point. And what we've got in the references coming up everywhere, we've got lines, lines, lines. Let's just start with a few and see what it feels like, because probably what we want is a bit of asymmetry in our scene. So a little bit of hatching here, little bit of sort of these flicking up leaves and stems. Some of them all climb all the way up to the sky. And maybe we just want to gap and then have them a bit lower down here. And this, we're using different mark making opportunities and possibilities with this selection of pencils. Within here, there's quite a lot of depth. Let's get our baked turf out again, which is the color we used up there. Again, an opportunity to mix here to mix on the page, to mix with dry techniques. Also when we add some water, this will mix a bit more as well. Let me get the idea of different colored leaves and fronds. And then maybe even just properly hat in here, get a real feel of it. And last but not least a touch of our indigo to create a real sense of depth, especially in this bold area down here. There we go. Now, to come back, soften things out a tiny bit, use that smallest brush. With that brush, you'll be able to join together some of these lines, you'll be able to soften them if they're not quite feeling right, be able to activate the ones which are feeling brilliant, and over here, we'll be able to change the texture. Mix. Create the flicks just with our brush as well. But also celebrated media. We have these hatching marks, we have these pencil feeling marks. It's not all about trying to create a perfect image. It's about working with our media to create something which resembles the scene, but also is fun to create. 11. Finishing touches: And our pages almost completely dry. There's a few little bits of water on, but that's okay. Go to jump back in now with our pencils, a little tub of water and create those finishing touches. Here we are. We can see just like watercolors, watercolor paints, things have settled with time and with the water drying. What we're going to do now is come back with a couple of our bolder colors and really create the sense of this foreground. What we can do is just trace down some of our lines which are there and working and create a bit more certainty. I'm using the indigo to start with because these lines in the foreground, these elements sort of flicking up are basically silhouetted and dark, aren't they? Either side, they have lots of little leaves, so we just add in those textures. And here, we're now back to our good old fashioned dry on dry techniques, and there's nothing wrong with those at all. They add a lovely controlled texture to our page, and there's a reason why pencils are so popular because it really does work. Then we go just a couple more all growing out from that area. Then we can have a few more over here as well, increasing the level of business in the foreground. I like so. Then because we've already used some colors in there, I will just create some little boulder marks with our iron green. This time, I'm not going to activate it much. I may do it a little bit, but not much, so it's going to stay this slightly more textural mark. This shaded area, this darker, well, y green rather than this quite bold green, adding something different compared to our normal watercolors. I think what it will do, tiny bit of activation in places, tiny tiny bit, little touches here and there, just creates more variety, makes it a little more interesting, and we can create little flicks coming out as well. Then, since we talked about it in the beginning, it's one of my favorite things to do. Let's do some little flix. That will just finish off the sky. Give it a nice sense of freedom. The flix can come into the foreground as well. Clean off your brush and then you can apply some flix with another color. Perhaps, put this iron green into the tree, like so. Little gentle touches. And with a great risk of overdoing things, but also having a rid of fun. Let's get this mint green happily through the field and these foreground elements as well. And like that. Why not? This mint green so lovely. Let's do our signature in that color as well. Thank you. My signature and my initials. A really fun process using water soluble pencils, in this case, ink tents, which are an ink pigment in a water soluble pencil format. But this idea, this is exactly how I would also work with my lovely Winds Newton water color pencils. 12. Final thoughts: And there you go. We have finished a fun bit of scribbling to play with our pencils to start with, and then use those scribbles a bit of water, build it up into a scam. I would absolutely love you to share your project with me, pop it down in the projects and resources folder, and let me know how it goes. If you're anything like me, you had these pencils stored away for years, and then finally for I need to use them. If you enjoy these kind of teaching techniques, exploring ink, exploring watercolor, and sketching, then do follow me on Skillsha where I've got tons of classes very similar to this. Also, you can find me at Toby Sketch Loose across the Internet and on my website, sketch looks dot code at UK, where I'd love to connect.