How to Draw Cylinders and Ellipses

Summary by Krater

Stan Prokopenko explains how to draw cylinders and ellipses in perspective, covering the major and minor axes and how to construct a cylinder inside a box.

From the video

Answers: How do you draw cylinders and ellipses in perspective?

• Drawing cylinders in perspective
• Ellipse major and minor axes
• Constructing cylinders inside boxes

What it concludes

• All ellipses are ovals, but not all ovals are ellipses.
• Ellipses must have four equal quadrants and a mathematical definition.
• The minor axis of an ellipse always crosses the center point and aims directly at the perpendicular vanishing point.
• An ellipse gets wider as it moves away from the viewer.