The Pencil Metaphor

Different kind of pencils to represent different character

Wooden: old-fashioned,friendly 

Mechanical: high technology, efficient and practical

Colored: expressive and happy 

Graphite: remarkable, strong, not prone to breakage

Doodles

Her legs are pencil- thin, I wonder if she starves herself or naturally skinny!

If you have a friend who's really good at maths, you can compliment him/ her: your brain is as sharp as a pencil!

When we think of a way to solve difficult problem, our thoughts could tangle up and create a mess.

Different Thickness of Pencil Marks

Let's think of the thick pencils as confident people, and the thin pencils as the shy. The more you're confident, the more REMARKABLE you are and thus people can't ERASE you from their thoughts easily.

Pencil has different sides

The Narrative

MR. SURVIVOR

Meet Mr. Survivor, a pencil man who makes it through everything. The secret of his success? He uses his physical features in the highest level of functionality. So even if the roughest day possible happens, he always manages to be fine on his own.

 One day, an unexpected snowfall happened in the village and no one was prepared to walk on the slippery road. But it's not a problem for Mr. Survivor... since he could glide easily on the snow with his ice skating- suitable foot!

Enjoying his ice-skating a bit too much, Mr. S didn't realize that there was a deep cliff a few metres away from where he stood. He was shocked, but he got an idea to overcome the problem...

the roll down

He lay down on the ground and roll his body, knowing that it will stop rolling after a while because of the flat body sides.

Surviving the cliff, Mr. Survivor was relieved and he stood up and walk again. Turned out that he hadn't gained his balance back, resulting him to stumble over a big rock. 

But he's still okay, because he's got the rubber helmet on top of his head.

Champion!

Creative Innovations Inspired by Pencils

Gardening Pencils - practical to use to note down things while gardening.

Flexible Pencils -- because straight pencils are boring!

 Pencil Nail- Art

Pencil- shaped LED- Light with the "scribble" cable

Experimentation Using Pencil Shavings

The ballerina skirt, which is called "Tutu", is made of layers of tulle fabric. The similar look can be achieved by combining layers of pencil shaving together and place them in to the silhouette.

Garden of morning glory flowers

A Plate of Exotic Spices

Pencil Sea Urchins (this one isn't made by me)
We can also see them as durian, porcupine, and other spiky things.

Indeed, durian spikes  remind me of sharp pencil ends.

A drawing and design of durian I did quite a while ago for drawing module.

My ideal durian is filled with pink cotton candy instead of the fruit flesh itself!