Difference between acrylic and water paint?

i have a passion for sketching and drawing but recently got inspired to add water painting into my sketches. But i am not sure what the difference is between acrylic and water paints. Also, what is better: using water color pencils and then brush with water or direct water coloring with a brush?Difference between acrylic and water paint?
Acrylics usually are thicker- it depends on what kind and whether they are professional grade or not (like Utrecht's) - but they are plastic based, while water colors are based on water.





For starting out with water colors, water color pencils are great, especially making the switch from drawing into painting.





You just draw everything out and color it to about how you want it and then you can manipulate it and get great effects by brushing it with water. (For a beginner it can make it easier to control, true water colors require a gradual build up process which is a little trickier, but are worth it in the end.)





Also, there are ';sketch and wash'; pencils that I highly recommend if you haven't heard of them yet.





Have fun and feel free to experiment. Hope I helped in some way.Difference between acrylic and water paint?
One of the biggest difference is acrylics are *permanent* when dry. Not so with watercolors. You can't go back and 'lift-out' mistakes with acrylics like you can with watercolors. Using a good a artist quality acrylic (thinned to watercolor consistency) can look just like watercolor painting and you need not do much to keep it safe.





Using watercolor pencils are fun, but can be very very tricky. They look like a pencil, draw like a pencil, but once that water hits the paper... it's a whole another ball game :) Oh yes, you will need really good heavy drawing paper...





Play, Practice, Explore, Have Fun...
Well with water color you get a great effects with flowers and nature


,,its very flowy


like water


to get the details I would use the watercolor pencils





acrylic paint is much thicker, and you don't have to add water to it


the drying time is longer than watercolor





but it is much better if you want solid colors


or more control.
You can always use acrylics like watercolors if you water them down.





The main problem I see in using watercolors is that it my curl you sketches or even mess up the paper.





you would need to use watercolor paper in your sketches and tape it down well around the edges if you want to use watercolors.
Acrylic paint is a plastic substance when dry. Where watercolor is water soluble after it is painted. That means that it can run. You might want to do your sketchs on a water media sketch pad that way you can paint on it afterwords. You also might want to take a painting class.
i'm pretty sure that acrylic is thicker than water colors