Been doodling ..

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Been doodling around in Paint Shop Pro 6. I've had it for years using it for Photographic purposes, cropping, resizing, touching up etc for motorsports photography at various events I've covered.

Not totally happy with pencil sketching trying to reverse colour what I've seen, black on white seems weird so tried a couple of astro pics from my earlier sketches and then a photo full colour of the Barred Spiral.

I scored an old Toshiba Tablet laptop with pen screen which was going to become my Astro Sketch pad/Stellarium but the screen appears to have died so back to the drawing board I guess.
It would have been good to try to sit at the scope and 'sketch' direct to the PC. I'll see if I can sort the screen.

Anyway here is Sculptor, Great Neb in Orion and then the Barred Spiral.
Not totally accurate, was looking to see if I could get the effects I wanted to create something as accurately as possible visually.
Sculptor and Orion pix could do with more detail I reckon

[Paddy (Patrick)]

Interesting effect, Brent. Certainly seems to get some softness to the areas of luminosity. I imagine it would be a challenge to get things like dust lanes and some of the harder edges working. I will watch with interest.

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Hi Paddy,
I've found that the higher the resolution I set the canvas for the easier is is to get soft effects. Working with canvas sizes of 1800 x 1200 pixels and overlaying colours to build depth and lanes. I'll keep playing with it.

[Suzy]

Interesting Brent, it does give a very soft look. This will add a nice twist to hand drawn sketches.