WOO-HOO - I made 'Astronomy Sketch of the Day'

[ballaratdragons]

I was suprised to see one of my sketches made 'Astronomy Sketch of the Day' :cool:

http://www.asod.info/?cat=3&paged=2

[Tamtarn]

WOW KEN !! :eyepop: That's fantastic

You're a man of many talents :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[spacezebra]

Well done Ken

Cheers Petra

[xelasnave]

Wow this is the closest I have come to anyone famous.

Great stuff Ken you must be very proud and I bet some others are very proud as well.

alex

[DobDobDob]

Freaky, you are the man on the moment :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Ric]

Top stuff Ken, that is one excellent drawing.

[bloodhound31]

I can't believe thats a sketch!!:eyepop:

Wow!:thumbsup:

Now that's art. That's going straight to the pool room!

Baz.:D

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks everyone :)



Here's my original drawing, Baz.

1. The original sketch

2. Inverted

3. Red hue added

[bloodhound31]

God has given you a gift mate....Truly!

Baz.:D

[Phil]

wow very good i am in to art myself painting landscapes. You have a great talent there. Well done.
Phil

[Dennis]

You are a very talented artist Ken - that is a beautiful sketch, although the word sketch doesn’t do this piece of fine celestial art justice! Masterpiece comes to mind!

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Top stuff Ken, well done and a great talent.

[WadeH]

What can I say that others here have not already praised except, WOW!!!! That is fantastic. I am lucky if I can just draw a straight line.

[davidpretorius]

beautiful ken....yup you have talent

[Rodstar]

Great job, Ken. You display great patience to come up with that rendition. Between you and Sebastion, we have a budding artistic community developing on the forum.

When my scope comes back with its mods from Peter Read, I would like to give that sketching thing a go myself.

[mojo]

What the! That's a quite impressive sketch. Well done.

[leon]

By gee Ken, you are a man of many talents, great work, mate, it must have something to do with the Ballarat side of things, as i got my image of Eta Carina on the IIS Home Page, as image of the week too.

Leon

[sheeny]

Congratulations Ken! Very impressive! I second all the previous comments... (I can't think of anything new...)

Al.

[bird]

Wow, hard to believe its a sketch - very nicely done!

Bird

[wavelandscott]

Well Done and congratulations!

[ving]

well done ken! :thumbsup:

[ballaratdragons]

Wow! So many replies!!!
Thanks everyone.

I don't mean to sound 'smarty-pants' about this, but, I just draw what I see.

A lot of it is smudging the pencil with my finger. That's how I get the Nebulous effect.

Thanks to Andrew Durick for putting me onto the 'Astronomy Sketch of the Day' site. He too has had a sketch on there.

[Omaroo]

Really excellent Ken. How many others have you done?

Cheers
Chris

[h0ughy]

well done ken, I just seen the post!!

[astro_nutt]

Three cheers for Ken!!....congratulations to you again!!

[JohnH]

Did you use Hutech modified pencils ? Seriously though that is a fantastic drawing...

[DobDobDob]

I might fly you up to Sydney Ken, to do one inside my office on the wall, then again....I probably won't :whistle:

[ballaratdragons]

Nope, but I did use a SBIG drawing pad and I had a Losmandy G-11 eraser on the end of a Mogg Adapted Pencil.

3 x 2 hour exposures, Stacked in Monostax, wavelettes in Bondi, and Reddenised in PhotoShop, and finally cropped at the barbershop.

:lol:

[Miaplacidus]

:bowdown:

Congratulations, Ken. I never knew you were so multi-talented.

Keep it up.

Brian.

[fringe_dweller]

freakin awesome sketch! pffft to CCD's lol ;) that should be on APOD!
make an interesting tattoo ken :P hehe hmmm maybe the entire milky way tatt over entire body would be something completely new! :p

[ballaratdragons]

Now that's just wierd, Kearn :lol:

[fringe_dweller]

:rofl: :scared: :help: I was just thinkin of the modern tatts they have now, theres weirder stuff than that - not that i'm volunteering

[venus]

Gee Galileo could have used some of your talent Ken!

Thanks also for the interesting site link.

[toetoe]

A man of many talents, good onya Ken and well done.:thumbsup: