You need to understand ellipses in order to correctly draw cylindrical or cone shapes objects, such as vases, ice cream cones, mugs, plates, and tires on vehicles. In this exercise, I show you how to use one point perspective to accurately draw an ellipse. You need your sketchbook, a pencil, and a ruler.

Wow Brenda! That's a very good lesson. I'm on a hiatus from teaching art to high school students, but when I go back, I will use your directions to help my students draw in perspective. I love the way you make it so simple. Now I'm going to check out the other lessons you've presented and try out some of your instructions ! Thanks! And keep up the good work!

My first ellipse turned out good. My second one, not so good.

[color="#FF00FF"][/color][font="Arial Black"][/font]THANKYOU VERY MUCH
YOUR LESSONS ARE REALLY COMPREHENDABLE

the lesson is pretty easy to understand. I'm a collage student and I took architecture as my main subject so i have to understand how to draw in perspective. thanks for the lesson

I certainly agree that this lesson makes ellipses more understandable, and more importantly, more "drawable." I heard of a technique which might be useful to some: put two pushpins a couple inches apart in the worksheet/sketch pad. Make a loop of thread/string and lay that loop around the pushpins. Put your pencil inside the thread/string and gently try to draw a circle, letting the string guide your pencil tip. Once you draw around the total 360 degrees, voila! you have a perfect ellipse! The farther apart the pushpins, the "flatter" will be the final ellipse!

Best to you all! Joe Bark, Lexington

so good but in engineering drawing i think something should be different?