Drawabox Lesson 1, Exercise 5: Ellipses in Planes

This exercise takes what we've learned about ellipses and takes it a little further. As always, remember to focus first and foremost on achieving a confident, smooth, even ellipse.

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[thoughtssailor]

I just really like that you point out your own mistakes lol, it actually kinda helps in a way . Thank you :>

[jewska]

already done with this exercise but the words still apply to later lessons. Thanks

[ryze_xspitez]

I like this exercise cause I drew the planes 3 days ago and my line work with the fine liner pen has already improved. Making the sacrifice my pens made worth it.

[alexpinkston]

What I've learned: I can draw ellipses better using both my shoulder and elbow.

[justafreak]

I'm regretting for doing my planes *very* exaggerated

[sharonlindgren]

Amazing exercise . On my second batch it's as if my brain jumped ahead to where I was supposed to put the elipse.

[draw]

Nice to see that you also make "mistakes". I'm loving the new videos!

[Squishiiy]

i feel like i am hyperfixated on using my shoulder to draw that i'm too tight (i hope that makes sense) & i'm overthinking. Anyone have any tips to help this? D:

[coltennial]

In your opinion do you think it's better to not touch the paper with our hand as we draw, or should our hand be dragging/touching along the surface of the paper?

[jhetling]

I love these courses, I do these along side of Digital Art courses on Udemy. I draw my own stuff sometimes but usually photo manipulate pics of interesting things around me. Anyway it's fun so yea. Aliens and stuff so yea.

[frenchfries]

All the earlier episodes were easy, this is where the challenge begins

[robbinkelly]

Concentrating on not let my hand rest on the table plus concentrating on drawing the ellipsis has shown me what I need to work on. My shoulder was feeling the strain of not resting my hand on the table. 🤨

[ahmedsahto]

that mistake by you at the last part was the only noticabe difficulty i faced

[aldente]

When you say an evenly shaped ellipse do that mean both halves of the ellipse should be the same size or does it mean the smoothness of the shape?

[kultuk]

When submitting the exercises, should I submit the planes separately with and without the ellipses?

[OnTempoTV]

Hi Mr. Uncomfortable, sir! Just wondering if it's okay to draw my ellipses in a clockwise motion, as opposed to the counter-clockwise motion that you do?

[euntae]

ANYONE IN THE COMMENT SECTION!!! I would like to ask if drawing ellipses clockwise/counter-clockwise differ from each other because my brain is confused right now.

[JonMW]

If you're aiming to center your ellipse on your plane (as if it's a circle on a square in perspective), then the one at 2:50 is also off, because it's slanted. A correctly aligned ellipse should be tangent to each edge where the side-to-side line meets it.

[qwertyuiop-pjdw]

My ellipses are much much better without the ghosting method. It's just that I can really focus where my line is going to go when I firstly align my pen to some point on the plane (the right one in most cases) and then execute the ellipse. I can't do that if I previously move my hand around. It just messes me up.

[hitundo]

did anyone else get freaked how neat his planes were? in the planes video he was like dw too much but bro when i saw his my brain malfunctioned. mine are nowhere near that neat lol