Drawing Cylinders and Ellipses

Learn how to draw more accurate cylinders.

[@lindseyc.7408]

I know I'm late to the game, but this video (along with a couple others) has been a game-changer for me. THANK YOU!

[@DaRoyalCrab]

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[@madhuraranade1848]

Your teaching style is awsome and you taught in a super simplified way. Thank you so much

[@angelanowak9467]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, your so easy to follow I had no idea on how to draw an ecllipse You have simplified it for me

[@christinehaslam9480]

FINALLY! An ellipse vid I can understand.. Thank you!

[@SeleDreams]

the issue i often run into isn't that my ellipses are hotdog or the squished football, but the fact that my ellipses are tilted instead of being properly centered

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I still can't get it😢

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What medium did you use to paint

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The painting is acrylic on yupo paper. It's a synthetic, almost plastic surface

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[@levneyman6183]

So many extra words

[@KareSeriouslyKaren]

Circles in perspective follow the rules of perspective. You drew it correctly at the outset, making it incorrect, when you "corrected" the height, by making the "top" and "bottom" horizontally symmetrical. If you were drawing a cube, or series of cubes in a line traveling back to the horizon, you would not make them equal in depth. In much the same way sidewalk blocks become visually shorter (and narrower) as they move toward the horizon. Finding the center point on a sidewalk block or a wall, by X-ing through it will prove the point. The half of the object farthest away, toward the horizon, will be shorter than the half closest to the viewer. Is what you are doing easier and more easily replicated? Definitely. And so, an easily consumable introduction for beginners. But it is not technically or visually correct. That should, at least, be noted.

[@nathanperry4931]

but... the perspective center and the major axis are distinctly different features of the ellipse. The widest point on the ellipse is at the major axis, which sits halfway up the minor axis--creating that horizontal symmetry. Drawing Essentials: A Complete Guide to Drawing, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2017, pp. 133.

[@KareSeriouslyKaren]

@@nathanperry4931 I agree he showed the major axis. And therein lies the problem. Where in the video does he describe the circle in perspective and demonstrate how to find the center? Because" the center of a circle drawn in perspective does not lie on the corresponding ellipse's major axis. It is always further away from the observer than the major axis." Chapter 13 Circles, Cylinders, and Cones. Joseph D'Amelio Art Composition Drawing Handbook.

[@Jazzy07300]

@@KareSeriouslyKaren Yes you are right! I noticed that as well. When rotating an ellipse, the Major axis is technically split down the middle point. However, when we draw it the major axis is no longer exactly in the middle, according to the rules of drawing circles in perspective.