2. Push your pencil into the sharpener
Applying a bit of pressure while sharpening pencils and pencil crayons will ensure your pencil shavings are thicker, making them less likely to break while you’re creating your masterpiece!

3. Sharpen slowly
Sharpening your pencils and pencil crayons slowly will help you to create longer pencil shavings.

4. Use multiple colors
While the color of the pencil you sharpen won’t be that prominent in your pencil shavings, there will be a faint outline around the trim, so don’t be afraid to mix things up for an added pop of color!

5. Experiment with different pencil sizes and shapes
Try using thick and thin pencils, and experiment with round, triangular, and hexagonal shaped pencils for different looks.

6. Use tweezers
Given the delicate nature of pencil shavings, a set of tweezers can make it easier to transfer and glue them to your artwork.

13 Pencil Shaving Art Projects

What I love most about pencil shaving art projects is that you can make them as easy or complex as you want based on your abilities. And even if you aren’t artistically inclined, you can still create beautiful pencil shaving art projects by printing off coloring pages and filling them in with pencil shavings. It’s amazing what a little creativity can do! For the purposes of this post, we’ve included links to a variety of different pencil shaving art projects of varying degrees of difficulty to help get your creative juices flowing. Remember that these are just examples, and feel free to search for printable art to use as your base if freehand drawing isn’t your strength.