A couple Sagittarius Messier's

[Astrolopithecus]

Hello, Everyone,

I am new to sketching, so please feel free to share any feedback/suggestions!

Thanks

M17 (Swan Nebula)

M24 (Sagittarius Star Cloud)

[Ruud]

Lovely sketches. Thanks for sharing!

[KingNothing13]

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

[Voyageur]

Those are good sketches. Nice work, keep it up!

[Makuser]

Hello Astrolopithecus. A nice pair of sketches from you here. Very nice details on your M17 and M24. Thanks for sharing your fine work with us Astrolopithecus, and I hope to see more from you again soon.

[Shabadoo]

Good stuff

[John Baars]

Nice sketches. If this was your first, you did a great job! We want to see more of this!
You took the trouble of placing faint stars in the background and not just make it all faint- gray! Gives an extra dimension. Great!
Tips for rounder stars: place the pencil more vertical and rotate the pencil. For brighter stars you can try liners in stead of a bigger dot with a pencil.
When a star is not round ( or bright) enough to your taste, no one is going to forbid you to correct it in "Paint" for instance. ( much work, because once started you can't stop :smile:
Thanks, and keep on sketching.

[Astrolopithecus]

Nice sketches. If this was your first, you did a great job! We want to see more of this!
You took the trouble of placing faint stars in the background and not just make it all faint- gray! Gives an extra dimension. Great!
Tips for rounder stars: place the pencil more vertical and rotate the pencil. For brighter stars you can try liners in stead of a bigger dot with a pencil.
When a star is not round ( or bright) enough to your taste, no one is going to forbid you to correct it in "Paint" for instance. ( much work, because once started you can't stop :smile:
Thanks, and keep on sketching.

Thanks for the suggestions! I really appreciate them since I am just starting out.

I used pen for the brighter stars... pencil first, to get the placement right, and then pen to make them stand out against fainter stars and to allow me to more easily "smudge in" the whisps in the background. I agree that my technique needs some tuning -- some of the stars came out a little blobbier than stars ought to look I think your advice seems pretty applicable to using the fine-point pen, too.

Thanks, again.

[helicon]

Excellent drawings [mention]Astrolopithecus[/mention] !

[Ylem]

Extremely Nice
Wow!
Viewing on my phone, they look like photos

[mariosi]

Beautiful work! Difficult targets for sketching....and you catch the details very well.

[Falcon 63]

Very nice sketching!
Love the detail, especially the swan. I have sketched M 17 as well and it can be a challenge.