Koi Coloring Pens As Watercolor

I’ve been using Koi Coloring Pens as watercolor in my art journals.

The technique that I use with the Koi Coloring Pens:

sketch the face with a pencil
add the Koi Coloring Pen
wash the ink with the waterbrush
wait until dry
erase any extra pencil

You don’t need very much ink from the pen to get a lot of color.

The pages that I am working on can’t take a lot of water or they will wrinkle a lot, so this technique of only wetting the ink a little works well. In the video you can see that I get a little bit of pilling from scrubbing the brush on the wet paper. You have do be gentle on non-watercolor paper.

You can also leave the pens unwashed as in this image: