Process & Procedure

I began with sketches of the look I wanted, and proceeded to make cardboard cutouts to assemble prototypes. 

A side note - I'm actually terrible at math, and it took me way longer than it should have to figure out the right circumference of the holder. I took the diameter of the pencil as a measurement, and messed up twice - once because I cut out the calculated circumference in terms of inches (thinking they were centimeters) and once because I measured from the outside edge, not inside, of the cardboard. These were good mistakes to make during cheap cardboard prototyping.

I additionally played around with the attachment style and thumbing piece to see how it would fit relative to size of my own fingers and the pencil.