Whirlpool Galaxy sketch.

With the weather still playing havoc and not allowing any visual scope work and a sketch or two I once again took to creating a sketch from a hubble image.

So here is my Whirpool galaxy sketch.
This was a combination of soft black and white pastel pencil on black sketch paper.
Total duration spent on this sketch was just more than two hours.
My photographs of the sketch do not do justice to the actual image on the page where it appears softer.
The camera really highlights the "white" in the sketch.

This was the best picture I took from about 20 attempts to photograph the sketch.