This is for  marinaneira's birthday. Happy birthday Marina! I'm sorry it's a little late!

... I am an honest bunny. This drawing is REALLY late because I started it for her birthday LAST YEAR. I am so bad. I've finally finished it and here it is, and I hope it's OK.

People really do sketch the sky through telescopes, though they mostly have more modern ones than this, usually smaller Schmidt-Cassegrain or Maksutov-Cassegrain ones with motorized mounts, but I wanted to draw a pretty antique-looking brass refractor telescope like the one from Jupiter Ascendant. (And I have a telescope a lot like it sitting less than a yard away from me as I am typing this, though it's not brass. But it's a good visual reference.) Anyway, artistic license: a lot of the control knobs and the counterweight and other details from the telescope mount are left out, because they're just too complicated and fiddly. Also it would really be very dark, too dark to really distinguish character details. Also Marina is a squirrel-elf, not a quail-elf, but I seriously really could not help myself and gave her an ahoge. Sorry about that, Marina!

Marina character is .
Art is © (me!). Gift for Marina!