Tag: drawing

  • Drawing Ellipses

    An ellipse is a sort of squashed circle. We really need to understand ellipses before we move on to the next lesson – Drawing Spheres – which is probably the most useful shape of them all. We have already learned that a circle fits perfectly inside a square, touching the midpoints of each the four…

  • Drawing Cones and Pyramids

    Click the picture on the left to download the pdf sheet. Cut out and make cone and pyramid shapes, so you have a shape to draw, and to understand how the shapes are constructed. A cone is like a cylinder but instead of having a circle at both ends, one end is squashed or squeezed into…

  • Drawing Tubes

    Tubes are cylinders with holes in them. You can think of the hole as being a second, negative cylinder fitting inside the first cylinder. Draw a cylinder with a circle at one end. Draw a circle inside the first circle and then add a bit of shading to help make it look hollow. We are…