Vintage Teacups - A Style/Technique Experiment

This is my first of three experiments in style and technique. I created this using good old-fashioned pen and ink, then I coloured it digitally using paintbrushes and an eraser tool.

Vintage Teacups by gobennygo

It wasn't hugely enjoyable as my computer crashed a million times; I am wondering if I need to change to a Mac, or perhaps it is just time for an upgrade. Comparing working with bitmap to vector, my preference so far is for vector graphics. But we'll see...