Tag: how to draw

  • Drawing Spheres – Part 2

    Why are spheres so useful when drawing? Well… many objects, people’s heads for instance, are basically spheres. If you fix in your mind, those three lines, that encircle a sphere at 90 degrees to each other, then you are well on the way to drawing 3D representations of almost any object you will ever want…

  • Drawing Spheres – Part 1

    A sphere is made from millions of circles that all share the same diameter or central axis line. This is how the world spins on it’s axis and how we separate the world into lines of longitude and latitude. Imagine the Earth, spinning in space, and draw an imaginary line all the way around from…

  • 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…