Watercolor Paint & Watercolor Markers (& other water-soluble art supplies)
Color Pencils
Markers
Fave easy to blend markers
Ohuhu | Draw. Feel. Empower
I love the coverage of these acrylic markers. They blend easily too
Markers - Amazon.com
These markers blend easily and have a wide color range
Sanjoki Alcohol Markers
These acrylic markers are really juicy, and the blend nicely
MEEDEN Acrylic Paint Markers
I love how easy it is to blend this markers, and they're quite a bit cheaper than Copics
Artfinity Sketch Marker Sets
Amsterdam acrylic markers are so juicy and vibrants. It's so easy to get a smooth base color with these paint markers
Amsterdam Acrylic Markers
Watercolor Paint & Watercolor Markers (& other water-soluble art supplies)
If it's an art supply that's water-soluble, it's here in this list. Obviously, I'm only including my favorite watercolor-adjacent art supplies.
Affordable and really pigmented watercolor paint
MEEDEN Watercolor Paint
Cezanne watercolor pencils are very affordable. These watercolor pencils blend easily with or without water. You can also blend these watercolor pencils with a light colored alcohol marker (or a colorless blender).
Cezanne Watercolor Pencils
The Caran d'Ache Neocolor Water-Soluble Wax Pastels are like watercolor paint, if watercolor was shaped like a crayon and designed for professional artists.
Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle Water-Soluble Pastel
If you hate how much color you lose when you sharpen your colored pencils, these woodless Cretacolor aqua colored pencils are for you. There's no wood, so you can sharpened these watercolor pencils with a piece of sandpaper and save the colorful dust...
Cretacolor Aqua Monolith Colored Pencil Set of 72, Assorted Colors
A little bit of paint goes a long way with these watercolor pans. They're so opaque.
Kuretake® Gansai Tambi Watercolor Pans
This tiny watercolor set is packed with pigment.
Grabie All-In-One Watercolor Set of 48
Color Pencils
Color pencils are perfect for details and standalone illustrations
240 colored pencils for under $50 is a great deal. These colored pencils have a soft formula, so they blend easily
KALOUR Professional Colored Pencils Set of 240
This 50 set of pastel colored pencils if perfect for someone who doesn't need 240 colored pencils. The muted tones in this colored pencil set are great for adding subtle highlights and reflected light to your art.
KALOUR Macaron Pastel Colored Pencils, Set of 50
These are my all time fave colored pencils. They blend like butter
Prismacolor Premier 150ct, Colored Pencils Set
These affordable colored pencils are oil-based. If you don't like to ink your lineart before you start to color with alcohol-based marker, try using an oil-based colored pencil for your lines instead. The oil repels the alcohol in your markers. So th...
