Tag: illustrator

  • 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…

  • 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…