my pencils

After two years of drawing, I have amassed a graveyard of pencils:

  

To my delight, however, I realized I now possess the awesome pencil sharpening abilities that will allow me to make more use out of these pencils. I can now go halfway into the black tip on those Steadtler pencils. It’s like discovering a hundred dollar bill under the mattress… oh so much uncovered graphite!

What the heck, here are more assemblages of my pencils…

my portable pencil case, always with me:

My back up pencil case I use to change from soft to hard or hard to soft pencils depending on what the drawing demands:

 

And finally, my treasured graphite set:

The whirlpool world perturbs me not as long as I have stocked up on sharp-able pencils.