yeah, smudges are annoying my erasers love to do it in such a way you can't get rid of it. So I need better erasers. And your hand by end of the pic is black. I personally don't eve wash it off half of the time, since well, I draw, and I don't care if there if there is graphite all over my hand. Shows how much I draw, subliminal advertising. That sounds much weirder than I figured.