i was so confused for a second bc i made an oc literally yesterday named ellipse and i was like "wtf wdym youre drawing them???? literally how??" LMAO i may be stupid
We had a geometry teacher in high school who could draw a perfect circle freehand. He was able to keep his upper arm still and his lower arm like a compass.
Others have commented you might want to hold onto the feel good part, and I agree. But I also wanted you to see the post that is right after yours in my feed 😀
it helps me to draw it as two separate crescents to avoid that "catch" when your wrist goes around the underside and starts to bump up against the geometry of your bones
You cant freehand an elipse successfully because you do not require it
If you did, youd be drawing with variants of ellipses to a point where youd know how to do it on its own
Pretty much, you are currently a baker who is angry about being unable to cook a beef wellington
The key to drawing a perfect circle freehand is draw many light circles in the same place and erase the lines that aren’t perfect, then draw over the ones that remain
When I was in design school, they told me that no one would ever be as good at ellipses as the car design guys drawing tires all day. So I went and got a job drawing Lego studs for twenty years
I sometimes think of the famous calligrapher Jan van de Velde, widely considered to be the GOAT. The things he would draw with his hands — insane. There are some unbelievable perfect circles he drew with a *pointed nib*, I must’ve lost that image somewhere. But this is related and also crazy.
I have spent so much time practicing that this year. Which ids good because there are over a hundred in my current wip. I am still terrified to freehand draw a realistic tire though
Never (or don't remember) had that feeling. It's either ok (good enough), or ugly. Maybe it's better that way so I won't stop improving. But I still believe someday I will reach a point where I will be satisfied and "heavy grind" will end replaced by smaller/lighter enchancements.
And then we remember a lot of professional traditional artists use a bunch of rulers with weird shapes to achive neat cirlcles and elipses. Jim Lee even used a Madden disc to draw a moon during a livestream once so...
Use your whole arm to draw it, not just the wrist. Be light and make several passes. Remember, ellipses are heavier towards the front and leaner in the back.
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*draws a potato* *deletes it*
*draws a potato* *deletes it*
every single page with him on it is accompanied by 4-6 smudged, slightly disfigured circles.
If you did, youd be drawing with variants of ellipses to a point where youd know how to do it on its own
Pretty much, you are currently a baker who is angry about being unable to cook a beef wellington
*erases for the hundredth time*
… I’m still dog shit at it
haha I know exactly what you mean haha
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