Remember carving a strip into your pencils to write your name on in the hope of deterring classroom pencil pinchers? Well Melbourne artist Ghostpatrol has taken the idea quite a few steps further...

His delicate acrylic and ink characters are drawn straight on to stripped back pencils. Ghostpatrol has grown up from the Melbourne stencil/street art scene and now produces ink drawings, soft sculpture and commissioned murals. The pencil artworks are available framed on his website. Watch out for pencil pinchers!