Mimiking, copying is just as important because it makes your hands draw shapes your mind may not be ready to make them do, so by getting used to drawing them it teaches your motorfunctions how to control yourself doing what ever your doing.

well many people are scared of inking because they think it means brush's, but i only use a brush and pot of ink for doing mass black, alternativly, you can leave all the blacks white and then scan your image and put the blacks on digitally.

Actually im in the middle of creating a website, it's mostly done but i have to change some details now that i have had a creative idea, if you want to email me i will share some of my work with you. as well as loads of artist sites you may not know of