walkthrough

Complete with state the obvious commentary, woo yeah!

It's not a tutorial or anything, just what I do. Demonstrated on something I sketched a few weeks ago when I was sick, well out of it and...watching MLP: FiM, haha uhhhh

I hope it gives you guys who were asking a better idea of how the pencil and watercolour goes together, anyway! If you have any questions I'll answer them here~

"Do you wait for the wash to dry before lining with a 2H?"
Oh, yeah. Lining comes out terrible on wet paper for me. Colour pencil too. The watercolour only takes about a minute to dry. Sometimes I tap it down with my fingers to even it out and dry it faster. I give larger washes about 20 seconds and then flatten them under my hand for a minute or two to stop them buckling. It's not very professional haha C:

"Do you trace your sketch onto a new piece of paper before painting it?"
Nope! I scribble til I get what I want, lighten the lines with an eraser and redefine the ones I need. An eraser pencil is really handy for editing sketches like this, it's just a pencil with eraser where the graphite usually is haha, it's amazing!
Also it's actually reeaally light to begin with, like it is in the first watercolour stage, but when it's just a sketch the scanner picks up everything and darkens it like crazy~