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March 2025 Sketching Contest winner is Opticsjunkie (Jeroen Eyckmans). Congratulations Jeroen !


March 2025 Sketching Contest winner is Opticsjunkie (Jeroen Eyckmans). Congratulations Jeroen !

Copernicus Crater
Opticsjunkie (Jeroen Eyckmans)
March 8th 2025; 9:30-11 pm (EST)
Boston, MA
140 mm F6.5 APO refractor (home-brew with iStar optics) + B27 Binotron @ 1.8x + 9 mm Nagler 182x
Graphite pencils (H8, HB, B2, B9), pastel (gray), charcoal (black, white) on 270 gsm heavy mixed media paper (Stillman&Birn, zeta series)
Seeing: 3/5, Transparency 3/5


    • Joe Bergeron, TheBigEye, Mike Allen and 15 others like this

    Wow nicely done

      • Opticsjunkie and jwinters like this

    Truly well done.  WELL DONE!

      • Opticsjunkie and jwinters like this

    Sweet ... I wish I had you talent!!!   Please keep the sketches coming.

      • Knasal, Opticsjunkie and jwinters like this
    Awesome sketch!
      • Opticsjunkie and jwinters like this

    Wonderful sketching technique.  Hope to see more of your very artistic impression of lunar features.

      • Opticsjunkie and jwinters like this

    Wow! Great detail and style.

      • Opticsjunkie likes this

    A masterpiece! The shadows really stand out here.
     

    Cindy

      • Opticsjunkie likes this
    Beautiful! I really enjoy drawings of craters and other areas of the Lunar Surface based on visual observations. So nice! Thank you!

    Jim Phillips
      • Opticsjunkie likes this
    This is amazing
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    Supernova74
    May 03 2025 02:53 AM

    Definitely a work of Art 

      • Opticsjunkie likes this



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