This was done with my Derwent watercolor pencil set of 24. I decided to be disciplined about my choice of colors and keep to a palette of earth tones - mostly three shades of browns, oranges, warm pink, yellows and some greens. I wanted the eyes to pop, so picked the strongest green there.
The process of wetting the paper didn't go so well. I used the second finest brush I have (of my four), and applied it only to those parts of the drawing that had clear gradations of color, such as the tiger-stripe part on the sides of the nose, the irises and eye lids. I left the rest of the color pencil parts pretty much intact because the areas of color were mostly too small for the water color effect to show anyway.
The gradation from brown through orange to yellow on the bridge of the nose are mostly gone in the above "after" version - and i don't think that's a good thing. Did I apply too much water?
More research into handling watercolor pencils needed, and definitely, more practice.
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