Heh, join the club ^o^; One thing I will recommend however, is that after evrything has dried you can add marker to spots that are too light compared to others- Of course this doesn't help the fact that some spots are always too dark...

Oh gosh yeah I tried that ;n;'' I'm always a bit nervous about using up the ink, so I suppose I didn't put as much marker on as I could have done. I'll have to practise a lot more on some scrap paper and really try to nail the technique :v

That's one way it could work out, tough another thing you might consider if it's fine detail- You might just want to use ballpoint pen to very lightly shade the area which is too light. It's not a perfect solution by any means, but it at least relieves you of the risks revolving around heavy ink usage on paper that might degrade under the weight of it -nod-

Ah, definitely, definitely. I quite like the look of ballpoint pen shading anyhow. Quite sketchy and rough. ;w;''
(I've been using printer paper recently for rough doodling and then I end up wanting to finish it? And markers just look awful on printer paper. I actually have proper marker paper and cartridge paper. It's just knowing when to commit. Ugh)

Hm, well I don't know quite how much this helps but if having the ink bleed on the paper is a problem you can just use a stack of something like 10 sheets with only the top page being marker'd and that will help reduce the effect. The main problem with ink bleeding on printer paper is that the surface underneath doesn't hold the ink and it just pools underneath. Of course this means permanently assigning a bunch of extra paper as a drip mat, and the extra padding needs time to dry in between rounds. When it come to the marker paper, I'd say reserve that for times when you're ready to recreate or trace a design you were already successful at and if at all possible avoid putting yourself in a situation where you're expected to go from a blank page to a highly detailed work as the creative process doesn't work like that in most cases.