I’m working on a drawing, actually about to finish it, and in the process I have remembered something:  I hate pencils.

I’ve never been able to draw well with pencils.  I got through my drawing classes in college by using charcoal and cante (fancy, dense charcoal).  The only way I ever managed to use pencil was by swinging my arm around a page at the very beginning of a sketch out darkening lines at the end.

In grade school, I didn’t doodle amazing pictures with pencil.  My doodles didn’t even look like cool cartoon drawings.  They just looked like… doodles.

I’ve recently come to the realization (in conjunction with another big idea I have yet to write about) that pencils are the biggest obstacle anyone faces when becoming an artist.  They definitely were for me.  I never thought I could draw, and I still laugh off my drawing skills rather than be proud of them.  My recent adventure into the pencil world did not help and I now have a new idea:

The unbreakable pencil

Enough said.