Perspective Drawing 14 - Drawing Ellipses

In this episode of the perspective drawing series we start to cover ellipses and learn how to construct them correctly when drawing.

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[MrSpruce]

Glad you're still uploading this series. You have been a large part in inspiring me to take up drawing.

[feedtheguts]

Is it just me or does his time lapse of him drawing and constructing something is really satisfying

[goodoleddy]

Been drawing all my life and I've literally just chanced and guessed so much of this stuff until now. Big up Dan Beardshaw for showing us how it's really done!

[reborngreatnesss]

This makes So much Sense and it really open My eyes 👀 like literally I used to be scare of perspective but now I have the courage

[BigDomski]

I'm following the drawabox course which teaches you how to free hand ellipses, and they use some of the same techniques as here. You definitely go deeper into this though 👍

[VirtualSG]

1:54 - - I have been looking high and low for the formula to construct a perfect square in one point as you have here.
Am I missing something?

[joanneyoung]

Thank you nicely done and very helpful.

[TheDreadfulCurtain]

Your technical wizardry and drawing skills are amazing. Great video thank you 🙏🏽

[Yeame]

Thank you, definitely will be useful for drawing spiral/curved staircases.

[oldhorseshoe]

You are BOSS! Thanks for making another splendid video.

[hmd]

Great tutorials man, you sound like your about to fall asleep any second now.

[TriviaVault-]

Hello Dan,

I started drawing couple of months ago and already improved alot ( thanks to your videos). I started drawing people with different gestures, but my problem is, my drawings always look too flat like not 3d. more like contour drawing than gesture. will you make a video, where you explain, how to add form into the drawing, if not could you tell me sources where to learn it?

Keep up the good work.

[Gilluled]

Please forgive me if I'm incorrect, but I had a question regarding this.

My understanding from art school was that the major axis(and subsequently, the intersection point of the minor axis) of an ellipse created when foreshortening a perfect circle would also be distorted by perspective, and thus be brought forward in 1 point perspective when compared to the actual diameter of the circle. And that in perspective, the ellipse would appear to maintain a 1:1 ratio when the radiuses(radii?) of the major-minor axis intersection to the edge of the minor axis was measured with a ruler.

It's totally possible that this may only be an art thing and unrelated to CAD/architecture, or that I'm totally off base to begin with. 😅 Regardless, thanks for the upload!

[WesPLOOP]

Hi Dan, thanks for the video! I have a question about the minor axes of the ellipses. When you drew the minor axes for the ellipses inside of squares, were you roughly visualizing where the other vanishing point was, or is there a method you used to accurately determine where the minor axis should point without needing to draw the other vanishing point?

[GONOCHALO]

Me encantan estos vídeos saludos desde Colombia

[jijov.j]

Sir, pls make a video series about
" comic book drawing"which explains about basic things like drawing head, body, action posture etc. pls make it

[tbc]

May fall of death ears but whoever reads this and knows: how do you do the mechanical way of drawing a perfect square in any perspective and also any plane, as in perfect square inclines and such.

[ampuerochannel]

Hi Dan, thank you for your video very instructiva BUT! Elipses in 2 point perspective cannot be constructed with the long axis completely verical. The long axis, when correctly drawn will be represented on the bidimensional plane, 90 degrees, perpendicular to the short axis which stretches all the way to the vanishing point. Thanks and good luck!

[Melcalide]

Great work but 2 things are wrong in this video.
At 1:30 the circumference doesn’t go through the corners of the shaded squares. Second one is that circles in perspective shouldn’t be ellipses. Ellipses are symmetrical in the x and y axes but there is foreshortening in drawings.

[aarondiaz]

But you are not using the minor axis, i think that ellipses in the cylinder should be a little tilted following the minor and mayor axis.