Toby SketchLoose/Focus on Watercolour pencils

  • Free

Focus on Watercolour pencils

  • Course
  • 26 Lessons

This 20-lesson course from the Sketch Loose Focus series is dedicated entirely to watercolour pencils. Affordable and bite-sized, it cuts straight to core pencil-to-wash techniques, letting you master water-soluble sketching at your own pace. Transform simple pencil lines into rich, painterly washes and turn those tucked-away pencils into your favourite portable setup.

Contents

Introduction

This course is designed to help you unlock the potential of watercolour pencils and water-soluble media, turning those often-neglected supplies into your favourite portable sketching setup. Throughout our video workshops, you will learn how to move from simple dry line work to fluid, atmospheric washes while building confidence with permanent ink and loose composition techniques.

Introduction
Course goals: techniques, mindset and creative freedom
Glossary of terms
FAQs, posting your art, and how things work

Workshop One

In this workshop we're going to get stuck in to watercolour pencil art, using simple dry to wet techniques to create magic on the page. By learning to plan how we lay the pigment on the page, and following just a couple of key principles for our brush work, you'll suddenly unlock a whole new work of watercolour pencil sketching.

0 - Workshop one - An introduction
1 - Supplies - A talk through
2 - Supplies again: This supply is essential (avoiding murky colours)
3 - Concept demo: Dry to wet techniques a primer (and exercises)
4 - Concept demo: controlling pigment movement and line weight
Preview
5 - Study of Jaipur in pencils
6 - Challenge shapes + Study
7 - Challenge part 1: Mapping shapes and light tones
8 - Challenge part 2: building structure and layering
9 - Concept Demo + Second challenge: An organic approach to sketching landscape tones
10 - Workshop one reflection: how did you find that?

Workshop 2

In this workshop, we're going to start expanding our repertoire. Looking at wet techniques with our pencil, and increasingly understanding how layering and mixing work. As well as using our ink pens in tandem with our watercolour pencils for the ultimate on-the-go sketching technique.

11 - Introduction to workshop 2
12 - Concept demo: Wet techniques
14 - Concept demo: Layering and mixing with watercolour pencils
15 - Concept demo: opacity in pencils
16 - Two studies of Skipton, lines and loose washes
Bonus: How to splatter
17 - Challenge shapes + study: Plus a new technique
18 - Final Challenge: Abstract effects
20 - Gallery of examples/further studies for practice
20 - Workshop two reflection: celebrating line and wash

Course round up!

A round up space for reflection and sharing progress.

How did you find that course?