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For comparison with the pencil lines above, I'm presenting a clip of the same part of the drawing inked earlier this morning (before I set out for work): 
I'm finding what I prefer to use in certain parts of the inking phase, and what I may not put into frequent use here. The Hunt #104 did a fair job with the lady's face, but I still prefer the Hunt #102 Crowquill for smaller details like this. You'll find the latter in some of the shading on the blanket in her right hand. For the general outline of her figure and the blanket, I found that an old large sketch nib still worked. I tried to use a Cotman III #000 brush, but found that my coordination isn't quite strong enough to get down to this scale in brushwork, so that got used for filling in the black areas on her hair instead. Being of the Vince Coletta school of "thousand lines" inking, I simply went over parts of a stroke to get a thicker line. One thing that did satisfy me about this was my not getting any noticeable "feathering" in my pen strokes on this page. Perhaps it was a still-good piece of Bristol board I was inking today.
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