How to Draw Cylinders and Ellipses
91,304
Published 2024-03-21
If you enjoy this lesson make sure to check out the Drawing Basics course where you’ll get all the fundamental concepts you need to start drawing from reference and from imagination! - proko.com/drawing
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:59 - What is an Ellipse
03:35 - Stacking Ellipses
05:09 - Drawing a Cylinder in a Box
13:44- Outro
RELATED LINKS:
• Perspective for Beginners
• Two-Point Perspective Drawing Made Si...
#perspective #howtodraw #drawingtutorial
Subscribe to Proko: bit.ly/SubProko
Don't miss new tutorials - Hit the BELL!
Premium Videos - www.proko.com/store
Pose photo sets - www.proko.com/tools
FOLLOW PROKO:
Email Newsletter- www.proko.com/subscribe
Instagram - www.instagram.com/stanprokopenko/
Twitter - twitter.com/StanProkopenko
Facebook - www.facebook.com/prokotv
Tumblr - stanprokopenko.tumblr.com/
Pinterest - www.pinterest.com/stanprokopenko/pins/
WATCH MORE PROKO:
Latest Uploads: • Finger Drawing Mistakes You’re Making...
Figure Drawing: • How to Draw Gesture
Art of Caricature: • The Art of Caricature with Court Jones
Popular Videos: • How to Draw the Head from Any Angle
ABOUT PROKO:
Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high-quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.
CREDITS:
Artist | Instructor - Stan Prokopenko (www.stanprokopenko.com/)
Producer - Stan Prokopenko, Sean Ramsey (www.peoplewhodrawstuff.com/), Charlie Nicholson (www.instagram.com/shloogorgh/)
Script - Stan Prokopenko
Production Assistance - Stephen Clark (www.peppermintgentleman.com/)
Editing - Sierra, Charlie Nicholson, Sean Ramsey
Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra
All Comments (21)
-
Become a premium student and unlock even more perspective content at proko.com/drawing
-
Proko tutorials- the gold standard for all tutorials
-
I've been drawing (not professionally) for 20 years now, and I never knew that the centerpoint of an ellipse was "further away" than the major axis. Mind. Blown.
-
Ellipses…my enemy
-
"Both cylinder and a box are hard" ok this makes feel a lot better coming from someone like Proko😅😊
-
Perspective is so important for artists to understand. I didn't do well in perspective class, but I went through art school before youtube was a thing. Thanks for what you do.
-
Car designers are often really good at ellipses and construction, I'd love to see one on your channel to show the perspective knowledge (and tricks) they know about drawing modern cars! Someone like Murad Baste for instance
-
This is one thing I had to figure out by myself. I used to "correct" myself by redrawing the round side of cylinders (like a car wheel) by aligning the major axis with the up and down axis, but then it would look worse than the intuitive sketch I started off with. When I really decided to figure it out, was when I had to draw cylinders at odd angles. I spent a good amount of time studying my cylindrical pencil sharpener, and drawing and redrawing, until I could pinpoint a solid rule for orienting the major axis of an ellipse. When I did figure it out, let me tell you, it was the most satisfying feeling. All that time spent, all that frustration, had paid off. And I took particular satisfaction in the fact that I figured it out on my own, by drawing, and studying real life examples.
-
drawing the cylinder in a box section is by far the hardest thing i have ever seen. It feels like every time i have to do a cylinder i have to bring out a calculator and a math book everytime i will try to do this :face-pink-tears:
-
absolutely the best explanation, i'm shocked of what i didn't know in the past....thx a lot
-
never skip fundamentals day
-
You learn something new every day. I did not know that the elipses are perpendicular to the axis 🤯. Wheels, logs, I've been drawing them all wrong.
-
thank you for the beginner video (1st month of drawing)
-
I’ve been chasing down the major and minor access for a few years trying to draw better wheeled vehicles. I bought countless books and still it eludes but this is the most concise and digestible explanation out there! Bravo proko!!!
-
I always appreciate a precise explaination.
-
i just finished my 1st week of studying art via your tutorials and self-practise, and yeah this is like the hardest one by far
-
I roughly knew how to draw ellipses, but i never considered the axis to help with the foreshortening... I always eyeballed it. Great tip
-
FINALLY ! I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG
-
proko my majestic goat
-
Keep it up with the basics videos I believe that they are the most important thing to practice even when at a advanced level