Okay, this is my first time using watercolor pencils (or even colored pencils for that matter) and I have no idea what I'm doing so I'll take any advice I can get.

Here's my plan. I started out graphing my ref. photo and paper (Canson watercolor paper) and just outlined the cub very lightly with an h2 pencil. I did more detail with this pencil than I normally do because I wanted the gray of the pencil to show through...I think. Like I said, I've never done this before, lol! Then, I'm going to layer the colors from lightest to darkest. Now, supposedly you just go over areas with a wet brush and voila, it's becomes a painting. Well, I'm thinking of using a slightly damp q-tip because I don't want to lose many fur lines.

Anyway, here's the reference photo:


The next three are just drawing the base. It's pretty light, hope you can see it.






Here I've started the color. I think I'm going to color the whole cub before adding any water, though. If anyone has any other ideas as to where I should go from here feel free to jump in.

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i love useing water color pencils they are my favorite

Really? Then you should post some that you've done. Maybe I'll learn something.

Here is a little more.

Here it is all filled in with color:


And here I've started adding water. You can tell where I've done it, left side of face including ear and eye and the forehead. My idea of using a q-tip didn't work. I tried it out on a practice sheet and it turned the pencil marks to mud. So I found an old, slightly stiff paintbrush and that worked well.

Finished! Once I had him done I thought a blurred background would look nice, but now I'm wishing I left it alone. Oh well, it'll still go in the fair.

I think that it turned out really nice! I like it. Definitely better then I could have done.

....Thanks!

I saw this piece on horse forum (hey 3neighs ) It's awesome! I said in another thread that I'm not much of a painter so I respect those that are. I did a couple watercolors my last year in high school and haven't messed with it since.

Thanks midwestgirl89! Well, I'm not into the traditional watercolor paints either, but these pencils were really fun to work with because essentially, I was still drawing.