I would like to know more.

The First Amendment.

Although, at a high enough zoom, Earth could also be a crescent.

Planets closer to the sun than you can be in a range of places relative to you and the sun, and so you can see parts of it that are illuminated and parts that are in shadow. Venus and Mercury can both be seen as crescents when viewed from the Earth

When you’re looking at a planet further out than you are, you only see the part of the planet that’s facing the sun because that’s the same part that facing you. So from Earth, the planet Mars looks like a disc.

He was sitting in front of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital when he painted this. I’ve sat in the same place and drawn the exact same view, 110 years later.

This is great! What sort of stone is it?

Thanks!

Oh, rest assured, this is fucked up at multiple locations…

Haha, thanks! It turns out my meditation routine is just drawing hundreds and hundreds of slightly wonky parallel lines all evening.

Thanks! I’m pleased with how much variation in tone I’m getting just by changing the angle of the lines.

Thanks! There was a phase in my life where I did charcoal, but I couldn’t bear the mess. It looks like I’ve gone pretty hard the other direction…