· Get a Cloudy Nights T-Shirt · Submit a Review / Article    Click here if you are having trouble logging into the forums Cloudy Nights - Official Forums of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy Privacy Policy | Please read our Terms of Service | Signup and Troubleshooting FAQ | Problems? PM a Red or a Green Gu.... uh, User   You are not logged in. [Login] Forum Archives · Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Astrophotography and Sketching >> Sketching Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 markseibold Pooh-Bah Reged: 01/19/08 Posts: 1091 Loc: Portland Oregon Whole Moon With Mare Imbrium Close-Up Inset       #2640269 - 09/13/08 02:00 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   To all Well at the risk of reposting as a new compilation, I never really combined the two until this morning with the aid of Photoshop. After seeing the crater Plato rendered in pastel by Frank a couple days ago, I decided to indicate with wide view and attached close-up of the inset image which includes Plato at left. The wide view at 8.5 days after new moon was produced as the largest of the lunar sketches I have done yet. On Canson Mi Tientes #50 paper in Stygian Black 19 X 25" with lunar disc freehand sketched at 14" diameter. I was inspired after seeing Rich Handy's tutorial. Then at 10 days after new, I added a close-up of the Mare Imbrium region on 9 X 12" Artagain paper. Mark Edited by markseibold (09/13/08 10:13 PM) Post Extras:       WadeVC Carpal Tunnel Reged: 12/02/05 Posts: 2831 Loc: Lodi, California, Re: Moon Whole With Mare Imbrium Close-Up Inset [Re: markseibold]       #2640313 - 09/13/08 02:40 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Mark, Although I like both sketches/drawings, I really like the close-up/inset of Mare Imbrium. That is awesome! -------------------- Orion XTi10 f/4.7 Orion XTi8 f/5.9 Meade NGC 70mm f/10 Orion UltraView 10x50 Wide-Angle Binoculars My Sketch Gallery My Astronomy Blog A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. Post Extras:       frank5817 Post Laureate Reged: 06/13/06 Posts: 4093 Loc: Illinois Re: Moon Whole With Mare Imbrium Close-Up Inset [Re: WadeVC]       #2640766 - 09/13/08 07:50 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Mark, Excellent composition. You have done a wonderful job in all the little details such as contrast between light and dark regions, rays, bright crater rims and mountain peaks and so on. Because you came here with a high level of drawing skills it didn't take you any time at all to render the moon beautifully. Rich Handy will be most impressed when he gets to see your lunar drawings, they are most remarkable. Frank -------------------- my gallery Post Extras:       markseibold Pooh-Bah Reged: 01/19/08 Posts: 1091 Loc: Portland Oregon Re: Moon Whole With Mare Imbrium Close-Up Inset [Re: markseibold]       #2640943 - 09/13/08 10:11 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Wade and Frank Thanks for your kind commendations. I am really not completing this as I have intended. I find now with sketching the moon, that it has so much more detail than can possibly be rendered in one observation of the entire surface in say an hour or so. Perhaps I am trying to take on too much at once, as I find that I am leaving out some of the finer details. As in the smaller inset here of Mare Imbrium, I was really only trying to get the actual gradient of the roll-off of light at the foreground on that smooth desert-like region. The few interesting shadow effects of that small mountain range to the lower right of Plato, the scattered rock-like objects. There is something about this smooth area with a few scattered craters and small free standing mountains that just grabs me when the light is rolling off at the terminator there that I never noticed so well until I began sketching it. This is what I want those new to sketching to realize as the other process of seeing that is not discussed so much in astronomy. That sketching is an ultimate process to experience for all and not necessarily a product of art to have an incremental value or value judgment placed upon. This is what I want to convey to the newer sketchers arriving here recently that questioned the validity of their ‘art’. Thanks again, Mark Post Extras:       rolandlinda3 Carpal Tunnel Reged: 01/24/06 Posts: 2233 Loc: Crozet VA 22932 Re: Moon Whole With Mare Imbrium Close-Up Inset [Re: markseibold]       #2641930 - 09/14/08 02:02 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I like it!! Roland -------------------- Roland Sketches in members galleries: rolandlinda3 Inspirational stories/sketches at: www.christworksministries.org Post Extras:       markseibold Pooh-Bah Reged: 01/19/08 Posts: 1091 Loc: Portland Oregon Re: Moon Whole With Mare Imbrium Close-Up Inset [Re: rolandlinda3]       #2646088 - 09/16/08 05:46 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Roland Thanks. You and Frank have been quite inspirational in getting me to take a closer look at the moon and especially through sketching. I was prepared to do another whole moon sketch last night as the moons disc was still an intense orange color at two hours after it rose up to 30 or 40 degrees above the horizon here, due to locally heavy forest fire smoke. Portlands skies have appeared more like an LA smog for the past several days. This creates amazing lunar and solar colors. I will atempt this tonight at two days after full. 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