November Mars in Subtle Salmon

Mars
By John Karlsson

This was a great night, clear and fairly calm for where I live here in Vernon BC Canada. I couldn’t pass up sketching this one. It was late and I had to get up for work at 6:30. I only wish I had better optics to give me some more contrast. I did however use my variable polarizing filter to bring down the contrast. It was glaringly bright.

John

Note: John used Crayola pencil crayons to create realistic color for this sketch. He blended the colors lightly to prevent streaks from showing as much as possible. John layed down a peach base first, and overlapped this with a layer of orange. He applied shading for the dark albedo features using a blending stump loaded with graphite from a 2H pencil.