Carlos

Posted by Carlos on 24th Apr 2012

I love water-soluble pencils... I use alsomt exactly this setup: water-soluble pencil, waterbrush, waterbrush with ink.I actually got a little obsessed and tried pretty much all the watersoluble products out there. Some are formulated to act a lot like watercolor, like Caran D'ache's line and Faber Castell's line. Derwent makes watercolor ones too. But my very favorites are Derwent's two oddball watersoluble lines - the Inktenses you have here, and their Graphitints. Inktense is watersoluble ink, and Graphitint is watersoluble colored graphite. Both are a little are a little... denser and stickier than normal watercolor pencils, and they look... different. They don't tend towards transparent and pretty. Inktense tends towards brilliant and opaque, and Graphitint tends towards warm, streaky, glowing.Oh - Caran D'ache makes a non-colored watersoluble graphite pencil that's pretty nifty, too. Very fluid, and very easy to push around on the paper.(Brand variance between for watersoluble stuff seems to be much higher here than between artist-grade paints... they really handle differently. Mostly in how quickly they pick up, liquify, push around...)