Just a warm up really. All of the black ink was from a new pack of pens that performed amazingly well, considering they're from a dollar store ^U^ Having had a lengthy study of various pens I can honestly say that there are many dollar bundles of pens that perform equally to Zebra pens. Thia is very important to know for pen artists, since Zebra pens are more than a dollar per pen, whereas most of these packs are 4-12 pens for a dollar.