Drawing Resources

Websites:

  1. Arp Galaxies
  2. Astronomical League
  3. Astronomy Sketch of the Day
  4. Howard Banich
  5. Mel Bartels
  6. Nicolas Biver
  7. Friends of the Night (German)
  8. Fred Burgeot
  9. Cassini 17th-18th century
  10. Andy Cho
  11. Tony Cifani
  12. Cloudy Nights sketches
  13. DeepSkyLogs
  14. Ewe Glahn
  15. Roger Ivester
  16. Jay's Astronomical Sketches
  17. Peter Kiss
  18. Rony de Laet
  19. Bertrand Laville
  20. Raul Leon
  21. Bernard Lyot
  22. Alexander Massey
  23. Larry McHenry
  24. Hans-Juergen Merk
  25. Fabrice Morat
  26. Richard Orr
  27. Jeremy Perez
  28. Jeremy Perez resources (older)
  29. Yann Pothier
  30. RASC AstroSketchers
  31. Lord Rosse
  32. Akarsh Simha
  33. Etienne Leopold Trouvelot
  34. Serge Vieillard
  35. Michael Vlasov's Deep Sky Watch
  36. The Webb Deep-Sky Society
  37. Brad Young's 7000+ NGC sketches

Books:

  1. A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings by David Hill
  2. Astrodessin Observation & Dessin en Astronomical
  3. Astronomical Cybersketching: Observational Drawing with PDAs and Tablet PCs
  4. Astronomical Sketching: A Step-by-Step Introduction
  5. Atlas of the Messier Objects: Highlights of the Deep Sky by Ronald Stoyan, Klaus-Peter Schroeder
  6. Deep-Sky Companions by Stephen James O'Meara
  7. Dibujo Astronomico by Leonor Ana Hernandez
  8. interstellarum Deep Sky Guide Desk Edition by Ronald Stoyan, Uwe Glahn
  9. Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century by Omar W. Nasim
  10. Sketching the Moon: An Astronomical Artist's Guide
  11. Sketching the NGC Catalog by Brad Young
  12. Solar Sketching: A Comprehensive Guide to Drawing the Sun
  13. The Messier Album by John H. Mallas, Evered Kreimer
  14. Visual Lunar and Planetary Astronomy by Paul G. Abel
  15. Visual Lunar and Planetary Astronomy (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)

Observing lists and reports:

  1. Adventures in Deep Space

Articles:

  1. Gerry Smerchanski on Sketching the Moon

Videos:

My Videos

  1. "Drawing in the Digital Age"
  2. Drawings through the 30 inch and 16 inch telescopes (begins at the 28th minute)
  3. Faster and fainter: drawings with a 30 inch F2.7

Sketching is personal. Here are a few educational videos.

  1. Peter Vercauteren's 6 part series
  2. Sketching Astronomical Objects with Dr. Cindy Krach
  3. Astronomy Sketching with Mary McIntyre
  4. Michael's Astronomy Sketching Stars
  5. Sketching the Deep Sky, Basingstoke Astronomical Society
  6. Jeremy Perez's Introduction to Astronomical Sketching
  7. Alexander Massey's Mellish Technique astronomical sketching
  8. More youtube videos