How to use watercolour pencils?  

Watercolour pencils can be used in three ways: as a coloured pencil, to create drawings that can be transformed later with water, or the tip can be dipped in water before drawing.  Some people like the slightly different texture to a watercolour pencil over a traditional coloured pencil, so they just use them to draw.  The real beauty of these pencils though is in the versatility that comes from transforming marks in pencil to watery washes while leaving other areas of the drawing as they were drawn, with the two textures working together.  Dipping the tip in water creates soft lines, another option to the mark-making potential of this one tool.