Sketch Notes

The original sketch made at the eyepiece was with a #2 pencil on some fairly rough-textured drawing paper. Using that sketch as a reference, I made the shaded drawing on smoother paper in my sketch book. Four shades of gray were used for the lunar surface with a fifth shade representing the terminator. The terminator was shaded with a "Jet Black Ebony" pencil. The other four shades were done with "HB", "3B", "5B" and "6B" pencils, from lightest to darkest. Before shading, all of the features were outlined in "HB" pencil.

A carboard stump was used to smooth the entire drawing. I find I have to use a different stump for each level of darkness or else any darker lead that builds up on the stump will smudge the lighter areas.

The finished sketch is approximately 4 inches by 6 1/2 inches. It was scanned at 600dpi, brightness and contrast were adjusted and then the rotated and mirror-imaged drawing was stored as a JPEG file at 100% (full quality) and reduced in resolution to produce the large and small (thumbnail) files presented here.