My Poor Pinkie!

A while ago, I was doing this one drawing from this one drawing book {of course I don't want to be specific}. Anyway, it was this large, shark, thingy in pencil.

DID YOU KNOW THAT SKETCHES REQUIRE SHADING?

Yes, I'm sure you did know that.

So anyway, I usually use my pinkie to smear the lines + blend the graphite. Except after a while it gets red... and painful... and yet my drawing is still not done.

So finally I couldn't put up with it anymore and decided to go to one of those art stores and get a blending stick. Apparently these things are supposed to BLEND THINGS.

I got some, and then I tried to use it to smear they drawing, and YOU KNOW WHAT?

It's absolutely horrible. Does not work at all. Hm.

Here's what mine look like:

If you look closely you can see that it's constructed of layers and layers of paper.

So now I guess I'm back to torturing my poor pinkie. Oh, dear.