To make the point evenly round and extremely sharp, one can use fine sandpaper as a last step. For this kind of work with graphite the sharp point holds for qu

To make the point evenly round and extremely sharp, one can use fine sandpaper as a last step. For this kind of work with graphite the sharp point holds for quite a while. Color pencil artists tend to sharpen a lot more, and use automatic pencil sharpeners. And a lot of pencils. I prefer to sharpen a few pencils in batches. Especially when using charcoal pencils, things become messy real fast.