Thank you@Moonless_Sky , @Graciela Hinojosa , and @Mikie. This is all really great advice and I will be sure to implement it all!

Cute drawing :) Watercolour indeed is a tricky medium. So I've got a few tipps for you :) 1. Plan your drawing. Before you start make yourself aware of the lights an darks. Also where do you want to blend colours, where do you want to use wet on wet and wet on dry tecniques? Bright highlights can be protected with masking fluid. 2. mix and prepare the colours you need before starting the painting. Than you do not have the struggle to keep your paper longer wet. 3. When you use wet on wet, I highly recomment to use a sponge for wetting the paper. It gives you an even watered surface, no puddles. When you use a brush the paper often starts to dry on one side before I coud manage to wet the other side completetly. 4. start with the lightest colour of your reference. Than slowly build up the values and layer the paint. In the end you add the details :) That's how I aproach my watercolour drawing. Once you get a feeling for the wet on wet tenique I promise you this medium will be so addicting. It's so much fun so see the colours spread over the paper :) Enjoy your journey :)

It's more easy to learn watercolor when you start with simple shapes first. This help you to understand the medium, and you learn how to control the brushstrokes, water flow and how the pigments behave. I know a lot of artist have their own opinion, but for me the beauty of this medium is: the waterflow and the pigments do all the work! So you need to understand them first. Start with fundamentals in watercolor, you can find a lot of free videos on youtube explaining how to do this. I know it may sound boring and kinda tedious, but with watercolor you need to understand first how the paint behaves. Look how to make gradients, blending exercises, how to mix pigments, which pigments are transparent and which are opaque, and how to work on different papers. You don't need the most expensive materials, you just need to learn how to use what you have. After learning this, and before starting any paint, you need to analyze your subject. identify where the shadows and where the lights are, so you can plan ahead. This is why simpler forms can help you at the beginning, try to chose simple flowers, leaves, fruits, objects or landscapes. Now, do not get rid of this painting! It's a starting point, and it's always good to have a starting point! Learn your fundamentals and try this again. See how you improve and where do you need more practice, and study that area. The more you learn the basics, the less you'll feel stuck in a painting in the future, because you'll know what steps to follow, but you need to learn how to walk before starting to run. :)

The thing with watercolour, more than with any other medium, is that it's quite important to have a plan before you start. I say this because as a rule you need to work from light to dark.. that is, you leave the lightest areas paper-white and you add value with every strokev of paint you add. It's very difficult to take value away once it's down, so you need to plan our where the lightest areas of you painting will be before you commit brush to paper. I would use this fine sketch as the basis for a new painting where you either: i) plan the composition and placement of the various elements before you start, or ii) perhaps try it in a different medium.. gouache, acrylic or oils might be better suited to your approach to painting, as they allow you to amend / refine on the fly. Don't lose this idea though, it's a fine bear! Build on the idea; make some sketches first until you're happy with the composition and then paint many bears until you get the bear you imagined. Good luck. Can't wait to see your next bear 🐻.