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I think sketching becomes an addiction. But that's just me.

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You can put me down for that category as well. I most definietly find sketching my observations very addicting indeed. Although I don't sketch each and every object I look at, I somehow feel that my observing sessions just aren't complete if I don't sketch at least one object per observing session. It can be something as simple as a double star, but to put onto paper what I observe is, to me, much more satisfying than a lengthy entry in my Astronomy Blog.

As to why I sketch (or like to sketch), I find that sketcing gives me an opportunity to instantly see, visually, my past observations; which has more impact and meaning than my journals ever could.

I also find that sketching has most certainly "trained" me to see the finer and more detailed nuances of certain objects I observe(Jeremy hinted upon this in his recent post). Until I started to sketch at the EP, I, like many, simply gazed at an object for a minute or two and moved on to the next. I never realized just how much I was missing by not spending the time to truely observe an object for a lengthy period of time until I started sketching.

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