Full Moon

[Venus_is_my_friend]

Hello,

I have been creating a pastel pencil drawing for my mother for Christmas and was just after some critique on what it might need to look better or what I have drawn wrong. Please feel free to comment openly I am thick skinned and can take it

Thanks for looking,

Neil

[chrisrnuttall]

I'm sure Roel could give you some pointers, since he is the newly crowned sketchmeister but here are my thoughts...

For me i guess maybe more tonal variety might give the image more 'life'. What i mean is that the maria are close to being a single shade of gray, as are some of the white areas and I think that you might be able to give it more zing if you introduced a bit of subtle variation within these areas. Along the same lines maybe lightening the centre and darkening the edge to make it more spherical might give it more realism.

Please get a few other opinions before attacking what is currently a lovely drawing and possibly ruining it though!

hope this helps.

[Venus_is_my_friend]

Cheers Chris,

I do see what you mean it does feel like it has three colours to it (almost white, light grey and mid-grey) I have struggled like hell to get the 'pure white' to actually draw pure white and not almost white. I think some areas may need a little shadow working to bring them out more but I am scared of (as you so perfectly put it) attacking it and possibly ruining it.

I had a chat with Mrs Me (she is an digital artist) and she said it may be an idea to do some smaller test pieces of craters or maybe the moon but small, before having a go. So hopefully soon I can upload some more drawings and possibly the final version of this.

Thanks again for your comment it was greatly appreciated,

Neil

[dweller25]

Neil, that's brilliant.

Mrs Neil has a good point.

When are you going to draw Jupiter ????

[Venus_is_my_friend]

Cheers David,

I will probably draw Jupiter next. Though next means once I am 100% sure about this and spray it with fixing spray, haha.

[chrisrnuttall]

What about trying some digital shading of the limb etc? that way you can't mess up the original.

[Venus_is_my_friend]

That could work, but I was hoping to have the original to frame for my mother for part of her Christmas present.

I had a mess about with the pastels and my brand new blending stump last night. I must say I love the blending stump and I think it is what's needed to polish off my picture, so the job of the day is set

[chrisrnuttall]

blending stumps are another world compared to finger tips!

Be sure to post the results won't you.