UK artist Benedict Carpenter is taking submissions for his Drawing Description Game in which you describe a common object as accurately and completely without tipping him off as to what it is, then he draws it. Simple premise…. amazing results. Here is my own rather long-winded submission:

This object consists of a long cylindrical shaft, an inch in diameter. The lower half of the shaft is tightly wrapped in a sheath.
The upper half, above the sheath tapers slightly. The top 5% of the shaft is capped with a separate part of the object, made from a much harder material. This top part of the object, when viewed head on, appears to have a circular front 3/4″ in diameter, which recedes into a square body which is only slightly larger on all sides, at least from what is visible. When viewed in profile, however, it appears balanced on the head of the shaft, jutting out 2 inches on either side. The left side, originally described as the front when viewed head-on, is like cylinder viewed from the side, with the curvature aligned north-south.
This cylinder, which is 3/4″ high at the left-hand side begins to taper at a point 1.5 inches from the middle when travelling toward the center, to a cylinder only 1/2″ wide which then wides into the larger cap which fits over the shaft. On the other side of the top part of the object, the same material tapers sharply to a flattened cylinder which projects about 2″ from the cap at a 35 degree angle beneath the horizontal axis.

I’ll post the drawing if he gets around to it. Why don’t I think of things like this? Oh right, I can’t draw…..