This time I started with a pencil contour sketch (welcome back, Mr. Eraser, my old friend) and labeled each area with an albedo rating using a scale from 0 (black) to 6 (bright) with five shades of gray in between. The stippling pattern I aimed to use is located at the bottom of the sketch. After that (it still took an hour to lay out the contours on this region) it was back inside to "paint by number." Thank you Rich and Jeremy for your suggestions.
The subjects of this particular sketch are the craters Lade and Godin, located near the center of the Moon's disk as we see it from Earth.
Lade (56 km, across, named after Heinrich E. von Lade, a German banker and amateur astronomer of the 19th century) is the basalt-flooded remains of a ruined impact crater. The south wall has been completely destroyed and the eastern rim is low, thin, and full of gaps. The western wall appears to be a bit more substantial. The crater has a distinctive hexagonal shape.
Just north of Lade is a plateau (24 km across) designated Lade B. This crater, like a miniature version of Wargentin, has been completely filled to the rim with lava.
Godin (35 km, named after Louis Godin, the 18th-Century mathematician from France), in contrast with Lade, is a sharp, well-formed impact crater with terraced walls and a small central peak (hidden in shadows in the sketch, it was just becoming visible as I finished up). The crater is not perfectly circular, however; it is wider at the southern end and narrow at the northern end. An illuminated ridge outside the western wall gave me the impression of a partially opened heart-shaped locket.
Godin (along with Agrippa, a crater to the north) is surrounded by an interesting arrangement of hills and mountains. I particularly enjoyed sketching the peaks west of the crater.