Shore and Marsh Watercolour Pencils from Hobbycraft Product Review Beginner Pencils

Spoiler alert - I found these pencils were quite disappointing. But I keep going with them until I found a way I could use them, so that they weren't a complete waste of money.
Some of the information, from finding ways to use cheap pencils may be of interest to people that own other cheaper brands..
Do use the timestamps/chapters below to watch whichever parts you'd like to watch.
0:02 Introduction
0:57 Price, Packaging & Colours
1:51 Starting to swatch the pencils
3:18 1st impressions of swatching the colours
4:15 1st impressions of blending the watercolour pencils with water
5:06 1st attempt at drawing in my sketchbook.
5:54 1st impressions of working with these pencils, the colours and the blending
7:02 Deciding on doing some comparison swatching, Shore & Marsh, Caran D'ache, Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils
9:10 2nd Attempt in my sketchbook, abbey ruins
10:02 The apple test
10:55 Finding ways to use really cheap watercolour pencils
11:10 Using the pencils really lightly
11:58 Using the pencils with a wet brush
12:26 Making a paper palette of the pencils
13:23 The splash effect
14:32 The conclusion. What do I really think of these pencils?
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