Is this your own design? I'm sure you can find a way to utilise the entire ink tube. Kind of wasteful to cut off 4/5ths of it. And no, I'm not primarily talking about the environment, but $$$
This is a great gadget for drafting tattoo designs, but not for the art itself. Read 'Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction' ... people using this for pointillism are just cheating