Lunar crater drawn in black and gray marker on pale cream textured sketchbook paper, with a complete silhouette and open margins.
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Lunar crater marker study

One isolated bowl-shaped lunar crater in oblique view, an oval raised rim and recessed floor, no landscape beyond a small local ground patch. Practice structure, perspective and developed values in black and gray marker.

Space & skyChallengingMarker70 min, at your pace
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A way into the drawing

  1. Establish the main shapes

    Set the outer crater ellipse and smaller floor ellipse.

  2. Connect the structure

    Connect the rim slopes to the recessed floor.

  3. Develop the drawing

    Resolve the connected planes and overlaps, then build layered details and a full range of local values. Preserve clear paper highlights.

A small thing to tryMake the far inner wall visible above the crater floor.