I also remembered why I never use watercolor pencils. They fail. Worse than colored pencils. Worse than actual watercolors. Why would anyone use something so useless?
Actually, it's infinitely more likely that the fault is entirely my own. I am sure I never learned to use them properly. Also, my paper wasn't appropriate for water, rippling up in unattractive waves. I won't even post the picture of the stupid frog I made.