I am hoping this gets out to artists out there. Please, give me the permission not to ink my works. Please, please, please let me know it's really okay, because inking makes me feel horrible. It turns good art work or acceptable artwork into bad artwork. I hate it, but it feels so expected out of my fandom and out of the places I see art.

I so need permission just to do pencils and color. I know it's silly. I know that it's an artist's place to break rules, but this is the one place that people keep going, and the place that is expected. Inking forces me to skinny lines. Even the times where I go ahead and use the Quill Pin to ink, it still feels too skinny (although much better).

I just don't want to do it anymore. I don't see any strong points in it, and even though I know some beautiful people who do beautiful work with ink, unless I intend an area to be black, I think I don't want to do it.