Added 2 new A* pages:Here's a nice photo of the far side of the Moon, taken by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972--notice how the far side (don't call it the "dark side," it isn't any darker than the side facing us really!)--is rougher, with way more cratering going on; that side was less shielded by Earth from incoming asteroids!
image by NASA (source)
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I think I've managed to get my drawing surface too close to my face again--when this happens I can't see the whole canvas well enough, and things come out cartoonish and warped until I finally get up and travel all around my apartment trying to paint the thing at the correct distance to fix it, even holding it reversed in the bathroom mirror or whatnot. Madness. I'll try to remember to lower my drawing table tomorrow. :P
Here's what it looked like eh about the second or third time I thought I had it done before scanning it in and seeing tons of stuff wrong with it once it was zoomed down on the computer screen (flipping images horizontally helps too, like looking at them in the mirror):
EDIT: Ugh, that one I uploaded was still awful! Reworked again (with my drawing table now in a highly inclined position so I can actually look at the thing straight...still gotta figure out how to make this not kill my back though :P). Here's the initially uploaded awful version:
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