How to Construct Ellipses In Perspective

This video is part 2 of ellipses in perspective, and in it we cover three different methods to construct accurate ellipses in your scenes. This takes you through how to build an ellipse step by step with clear and concise instruction. It makes one of the hardest topics easy and accessible!

If you haven't seen the first part, it will help to watch that first.

This video also references topics covered in other videos:
Dividing planes with the "X" trick

How to draw a perfect cube

Repeating depth in perspective

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[johnoswald]

This should have more views, thank you for fixing every wheel I ever sketch again.

[rewguy]

Wow! Who knew drawing a circle could get so complicated? You are very good at explain how to do technical drawings. Thanks for the videos. I’m learning a lot.

[hellflipe]

Wish I had discovered this channel earlier... super helpful!

[newbie-ndnt]

holy moly this is what ive been looking for, ty sir

[gohi]

You are a lifesaver!!! This is so clear and useful!!!

[jorgeriveramx]

Awesome, watched this at work and sent the link to my phone just to login on my personal account and like the video, It is that good! Thanks!

[Pyth]

Very well done! FYI I find technique 3 by far the most straightforward... its a lot of lines but imo it's more intuitive than either technique 1 or 2.

[AbiNomac]

I just found this channel and I’m grateful I did

[devinjansa]

Great video, I definitely feel MORE validated buying all those ellipse guides after watching this.

[sophia]

Best video series on the entire planet. I wish I could watch your class online.

[gitajoneja]

Really great videos and explanations provided. Received much clarity and yet going through your various videos. Thank you for helping get a much better handle on the subject without getting overwhelmed. Wish you the best.

[tubr]

These are an awesome construction methods. Even the more elaborate second method is easily reproducible in vector software like Inkscape connecting with a polygon and symmetrically smoothing the nodes (basically obtaining a quadratic curve).
However, even though the construction gives the nice elliptically looking objects at off-center positions, they are not always ideal ellipses: their axes are not always perpendicular or the minor axis would not align with the cylinder axis or pass through the original center.
The matching properties of the ellipses are possible in the examples in the video, because the object goes across the horizon and/or the center line. Once the object is dropped one or two its sizes off the horizon or the center line, the ellipses become skewed. This was also confirmed in those Inkscape examples following these methods by trying to find the axes.

[arnedirlelwy]

Awesome video!! Thank you! Could you do one for drawing ellipses in 3 point or even 5 point perspective?

[gabrielchirino-melgarejo]

Wow that is so revolutionary for me thank you so much. I especially love the last two methods this was so helpful now all I need is how to find a perfect square within a rectangle in perspective or even how reverse engineer a golden square or 1.5 rectangle within an existing rectangle

[wrong]

Hey, Josh, this is so useful and amazing! But I don’t know how to construct a sphere inside of a cube in perspective correctly, I would appreciate it if you could make a tutorial for this!

[Hoogalindo]

You should make a video on how to calculate the ellipse arc of a pre-drawn object. It'll be useful for figuring out how to accurately draw things like flaps or hinges.

[HappehLemons]

I am confused on the construction. If we use the same method of basic construction for 1 or 2 point perspective, but there’s a tilt of the ellipse in 2p, wouldn’t it exist in 1p as well? You can make the exact same plane both flat on the ground and standing up, and they would have the same tangency points so you would end up constructing the same ellipse, but in your last video you said that a horizontal ellipse and a vertical one are constructed different. This is very confusing to me.

Can you help me understand?

[FrancoiseMuragijimana-lx]

How to join this point can using campas

[jagratichaudhary]

Pls make a analytic video on kim jung gi drawings

[PeterOlsen-cu]

The rear ellipse did not have the same visual curve on the left as the front ellipse did !? I think but then at my age some times cleat visually vertical lines seem slightly off!