Experience taught me to stay the bloody hell away from ballpoint pens in inking (With a name like Uni-Ball, I'm guess that it is a ballpoint), but that's not to say that can't make good art with them. Of course, hate to have a snob mentality, but I also have a philosophy of "If you can buy it at London Drugs, then don't use it for art". Err... in essence, if you can buy it at any all purpose store, don't use it for anything outside of writing or doodling.

Of course, real art supplies is never cheap and is almost as jacked up as funeral gear, but I can't say that I recommend using Uni-Ball Vision pens if you are working anywhere above casual doodling. Of course, a particular brand of inking pen cost me $30 Canadian something, and it broke on the first day, so sometimes expendable and covenient is a good practice.

For the most part, the Uni-ball Vision will probably give you a single line width typical of drafting pens, good for drawing mecha and archetecture... not so good for drawing things that breathe or anything non-mechanical. If you are serious about inking, I recommend finding something that will give you at the least some line variation in stroke quality like a dip pen, a fountain pen, brush pen, or even a calligraphy pen... but... that being said, I spent a lot of my drawing hours using drafting pens as well. Dang, those things are expensive as hell if you buy the professional ones.

You know what they say though, 99% is easy, the last 1% is ridiculously hard. Art supply prices are like that, the last 1% can cost you hundreds of dollars, but the 99% can cost you only $5 sometimes.

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