It’s annoying me that I can’t find any information on this online. I guess it’s so commonsensical that everybody knows it except for me.
I am trying to get into coloring. I can’t draw worth a darn, but I can color. I have a Kum Ellipse sharpener (<https://pencils.com/products/kum-black-ellipse-pencil-sharpener/>), which I bought simply because a manual sharpener would make less noise than an electric one; from what I’ve read, manual ones are supposed to give you more control anyway and break fewer of your leads. But I clearly don’t know how to use it, because on the pencil I’m trying to sharpen, the wood around the lead is pretty lopsided, and kinda blocking me from using the lead, and I just can’t figure out how to target the side with all the wood. Perhaps it’s because this sharpener is opaque and not transparent in the slightest, or maybe I’m the arts and crafts equivalent of a scrub. I’d prefer not to buy a new sharpener if the problem is just that I suck at using it. @ me or DM me if you’re an expert at sharpening pencils.
