WHY PUT DEAD PENCILS IN BOTTLES?

Collecting pencil remains can be a strategy to shift how an artist brain perceives achievement. Having a goal of filling pencil bottles can help with caring a bit less about just the final drawings, and a bit more about drawing for the sake of drawing. A "failed" drawing is not wasted time. This can help some people against art blocks and suffocating levels of perfectionism. It can also be fun to ask people to guess how many pencils your bottles have

A SMALL BOTTLE WORKS TOO

A small bottle works just as well. What counts is the spirit. Disrespecting the materials.