Small But Important Note -

For those seeing my WIPs here [and elsewhere], just a bit of comforting information - despite what seems dangerous placing of ink bottles where it might seem they chance tipping over and spotting my renderings, all the bottles are closed save the one which is in the use at the time, and that is held in hand to the mat, so there is very little chance of a tipping...   this is all the more so when using Liquitex acrylic inks, as they [for what reason one cannot offhand imagine] have their bottles as tall thin cylinders, not squat and less tip-able as are most the others [such as FW, Higgens, and so forth]...   true, the ideal would be a wide block of wood or whatever with holes matching these bottles, so that they can be place therein, thus removing virtually all chance of a tipping...  but in place of that, and the necessity of the bottles being close to where the inks are being applied to avoid bloops in transferring the ink, what am presently doing is combining my hardboard arm resting mat with a shelf for the inks so all is close to the source - especially with regards this mural sized rendering, which is way too large to have the bottles at the rim of the rendering...

And note, too, the squatness of the water cup used for cleaning the ink from the nibs - for the same reason...