StardustLarva's Visual Explorations

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HOw to render better with pen and ink? Try out cross hatching, or have your stroke be shorter, but follow the form of the object - as if you're chiseling the object out from stone, and your pen(cil) is the chisel blade. See if those methods help :) 

Some visual examples! The second one is very, very likely done with a pencil under-drawing that looked just like the finished ink drawing.