Crater Cichus again

[Mike JW]

Thought I would do the same sketch as my previous post but this time try the "dotty technique". I found it quite relaxing mindlessly putting dots on a piece of paper. Pleased with the result but nowhere near the standard of the professionals who use this technique.  I shall not attempt this again for awhile unless the weather is so bad that I have nothing else to do - takes a very long time.

I mainly used  a 0.3 mm pen, but very small dots are 0.1 mm. I did try a 0.5 mm pen but that seems too heavy. Best viewed from a distance - 60 cm or more from screen.

 

 

Mike

[Ruud]

Mike, that's awesome!

I had to try this. I'm much too impatient to attempt dotting by hand, so I used levels, pointillise, desaturate  and posterize in photoshop. I tried twice. The coarser one looks better to me. The zip has the original and two pointillised versions. 

Hevelius pointilised.zip

The work took no more than minutes, but looking at your result I have hours of experimenting to do before I can expect anything as good.

Great job!

[Mike JW]

Hi  Ruud, thanks for the feedback. I am most impressed with your computing skills. Way beyond my knowledge. I like all three versions. Agree that the coarser one looks a touch better.  Mike

[N3ptune]

Your dot technique is amazing, it's the first astro sketch I see using such a technique, the result is high.

[JamesF]

If it's good enough for Seurat and van Gogh (I believe some of his work could be considered pointillist) then you're in good company :)

James

[Mike JW]

Because of the time involved I do this dotty technique about once a year. There are various styles out there. Mike