I have those but I absolutely suck at using india ink because I use normal typing/printing paper instead of the thick paper made for inking. I was thinking of outlining the shadows with the pen on the actual paper then coloring it in with black/gray on photoshop. I have Caspia and Meron completed, I'll make an inking test on Meron (with the way I drew Caspia, I can't tell her shadows apart very well, plus she's semi-casting a spell so it would be more difficult, SO I plan on using the digital inking test on her).

Usually I use micron pens when I can get my hands on them, or just regular ball-points, but they have to be VERY thin tips and gel rollers or else I won't use them.

I plan on going to Charleston (it's about 120m from here and the capital city) near the end of the month and since they have a Michael's there, I'll be getting some art supplies so I'll get another bottle of ink, the right kind of paper and a thin quill, or I can just use the micron pens for outlines or get a small tipped calligraphy pen depending on the price of the ink/paper (we recently got another insurance settlement, but I'm not entitled to a lot of it because the items belonged to my Grandfather and I'm getting my computer upgraded with a new ram card and and and and (haha~ now you see why I went out of writing) a new working CD rom drive). Plus the book I have also has a guide to traditional inking, plus a really AWESOME tutorial on planes (not the ones that fly in the sky ) and that.. thing where you make a dot in the middle of the paper, then draw lines out from it. Lol I can't remember what it's called. I'll be looking for another, more detailed type of book because this one mostly focuses on computer CG, but does not give step-by-step tutorials on how to do it. They do have a really great tutorial on detailing hair with inking and creating dynamic backgrounds, along with expressions. Their tutorial for figure drawing is lacking a little, since they say "draw a stick figure and go from there" but there's a lot of principles that go along with that, like the fingers have to be a certain length and end at a certain point, etc. The book I have doesn't detail that, and it also gives NO DETAILS WHATSOEVER on clothing folds.

I feel a disturbance in my wallet.

Also I'm calling today so BE READY TO HEAR MY HORRIBLE SOUTHERN ACCENT