Silverpoint is perfect for apartment life.
No pencil
shavings or stains, no smudging. It also dulls
quickly.
To roughen up the point a bit often times I
find myself grinding down
the tip of my stylus on
the most coarse surface within reach, the
sidewalk,
the matte paint on my windowsill, or the
large slab of granite that Kavi
dragged into the
apartment from the old place (it was awfully heavy
and left marks all across the hallway and in
the lobby).