Fat marker vs. fine liner for late-night doodles, I picked wrong

Last Tuesday around 2am I was sketching this weird octopus tax collector thing and had to decide between my chunky Copic marker and a fineliner. I went with the thick marker because the shape felt bold, but the ink bled through three pages and stuck them together like glue. By morning I had one ruined sketchbook and a masterpiece that looked like a wet napkin. Has anyone else ruined a whole page trying to fix a bleed with white-out?

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sanchez.robin16d ago

...and that's exactly why I switched to those little pocket gel pens for anything after midnight. My worst one was trying to fix a smeared charcoal owl with a black Sharpie, ended up looking like the owl got attacked by a tiny bat. The worst part wasn't even the ruined drawing, it was the next morning when I flipped through the sketchbook and found my own fingerprint stamped across three pages like some crime scene evidence. I've also learned the hard way that white-out on marker just turns into this weird goopy paste that smears worse than the original problem. Now I keep a separate "junk book" specifically for late night ideas, anything that comes out after 1am goes in there no matter how brilliant it seems at the time. Half the stuff I draw at 2am looks like garbage by noon anyway, so I'm basically just saving myself from future embarrassment.