Me Am So Smart

Every single time I've used watercolor pencils with a fountain pen, I've smeared ink all over the place and wrecked the drawing I was working on. I couldn't figure out how Graham Roumieu, the author of In Me Own Words, Me Write Book, Bigfoot: I Not Dead did his water color renderings of Bigfoot without smearing the ink.

I was doing a sketch of one of his Bigfoot illustrations, and looking closely at the watercolors, it hit me: he did the watercolor first, AND THEN he drew over it in ink.

I tried it. And whaddya know. It does work!

Or, after seeing this video, maybe I need to go back to the drawing board...



Update: An anonymous commenter was kind enough to point me in the direction of ink that won't smear when used with watercolors.