Drawing Ellipses and Cylinders in Perspective

This tutorial demonstrates how to draw ellipses accurately in perspective. From there you can draw cylinders in different orientations in the proper perspective.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• perspective
• circle
• ellipse
• cylinder
• foreshortening
• perspective center
• one-point perspective

[helicoptersrkool]

The ellipse on the right is distorted because it's outside the cone of vision, too far to the right.

A diagonal vanishing point from inside the 1st box on the horizon line would let you know the limits of the cone.

[bunnygrunts]

@helicoptersrkool

Yes, I understand that. :) For these purposes I was not including reference to the cone of vision.

Thank you!

[deemzila]

helpful, still how did u do the elliptical curves?

[bunnygrunts]

@deemzila

For this tutorial, I'm using Photoshop. I'm not sure what you're asking, can you clarify? :)

Thanks!

[MangaTipoftheDay]

Oh, one more thing, you would be the most awesome person ever if you could make this on two-point perspective! And you'd be SUPER AWESOME if you did it on 3-point perspective. One quick question: how did you make the ellipse so 'clean'? Did you use a tool or draw it freehand?

[bunnygrunts]

@MangaTipoftheDay

Will do! I'll put those on my plate for future videos. :) I'm glad you like this.

For this tutorial I'm using Photoshop. For specifics on that, I might need to do another tutorial. ;)

[AndrevwZA]

Thanks for the tutorial. Here is a question. How do you determine the depth (back end) of the sphere? Say I draw perspective view of a car. How do I determine how deep (far back) the tires end?

[MaverickCook]

Could you do a rut for cylinder in 2 point perspective

[codeb24]

lol i thought this is for drawing a cylinder using hand & compass

anyway nice tutorial and u have sexy voice :)

[ronnysoeberg]

Thanks. Great tutorial. You have a super soothing voice.

[8fantasy19195]

what tool did you use to create the ellipse? Thanks!

[helicoptersrkool]

@MickeyFireMouse This is 1 point perspective, the left side of the image is cropped showing too distortion on the right side, the far right ellipse is just outside the cone of vision would only look right if looking through a wide/fish eye lens with slight curved horizon, crop it off with your hand to see what I mean. The ellipse next to it is fine, so is the vertical ones on the left.

Camera feels like its panning towards right away from line of site on vanishing point.

[MickeyFireMouse]

@helicoptersrkool No offence, but unless your right in front of the object you cant use the 1 focus point perspective. The only thing horizontal should be your horizon. In your case they are not. One more thing, the point in the corners where the circle should meet is not in the middle, its just below that. You can see it when you divide the squares in the corners once again. Than again. Good tut and keep it up :D

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