Terri, Rikard, Sanlynn, and Joy...Thank you.
The pen exhibition was quite good. There were lots of stalls, many Indian and foreign brands, and it drew plenty of visitors. The pens that I got myself cost between ten and twenty dollars. I bought two Indian flex pens and two foreign made fude nib pens.
I started sketching directly in ink about sixteen years ago when someone, in an online community that I was part of, challenged all of us to do so.
And in the same community, another member, around the same time, challenged us to speed up our sketching. I tried to meet both challenges. I enjoy sketching directly in ink, and I try and do it most of the time. But I find that I enjoy the process of sketching and therefore I only sketch very quickly, once in a while.