Drawing woes

It has been hell, creatively speaking.
There's a reason why people mostly draw galaxies on a black background, because drawing with white on black paper is not easy. Oh it's not easy; more so because I thought that I'd be able to tackle this despite the fact that I don't have any white pigment fine liners, with my fine nib pens in an array of fine points using my excellent white ink.
Wrong!!
You see, those extremely fine dip pens though flawless as they are cannot render the same effect with white on black as they would with black on white.
Since they're fine tipped, the white line fails to deliver the impact one would need, it fails to stand out stark against the black backdrop, which is why one needs to apply a little more pressure, just a tad bit more than normal to have the white of the ink come out a little thicker.

So now we're faced with a new kind of problem.
These pages are made of mostly cotton like fine threads compacted together, and the the fine nib of dip pens which commands a surface area almost rivalling that of a needle tends to thread through the extremely fine fibre like structure of the surface of the page. These fibres which are a hundred times finer than a strand of hair get stuck in the nibs and makes drawing a nightmare, because it clogs the entire pen.
Now this wouldn't be a problem with fineliners no matter how fine because they are felt tipped.

I spent hours on not more than one square inch space trying to figure a way around, dealing with clogged tips, trying to pour in details carefully and not succeeding as well as I'd hoped.
Add to that the fact that white pigment ink is a little thicker than the black ones, and does not seamlessly drop out as one would expect.

Ah well, let's see how this progresses.
I'm almost tempted to tear this one out and start another with new experiences gained.
Ah! Let's see