They're going diagonally up and to the right in the image shown, but they can point in any direction you want so long as you keep them parallel.






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, Draw a semicircle above that for the eraser.
 If you want a blunt, well-used pencil, you should round off the tip so it looks as though it's been pressing into a page.
 Put only about three or four so that your pencil still looks realistic.
 Add in a little bit of shadow or extra darkening if you wish.
 Use yellow for the body of the pencil, light brown for the tip, and pink for the eraser for a traditional pencil.
Sketch four even lines, with uneven spacing as shown.
At the top, draw two curved lines for the ferrule (the piece that holds the eraser).
Draw a triangle at the other end of the pencil and a curved line for the lead.
Sketch in quarter circles connecting the lines for the sharpened markings.
Outline our pencil and erase overlapping guidelines.
Color it in and you're done!
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