How to Draw a Cylinder Step by Step Step 1īegin by drawing a foreshortened circle.
This means I receive small commissions for purchases made through these links at no extra cost to you. * Some of the links in this post may be affiliate links. For this article we will be drawing foreshortened circles, which is really just a fancy way of saying a squashed circle. When using this technique, the artist distorts a portion of the drawing to make areas look closer or further away. Once you can break an object down into it’s shapes, you need to be able to draw those shapes convincingly.įoreshortening is a technique used to create the illusion of depth in a drawing or work of art. The foundation of drawing complex items begins by breaking it down into simple shapes. Even professional artists use this method for their drawings. If you can look at an object and break it down into shapes, it will become much easier to draw.
The three-dimensional counterparts to these shapes are spheres, cubes, cylinders, and pyramids.
What I consider to be these shapes are circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. So why would you ever need to know how to draw a cylinder? Most, if not all, objects in real life can be broken down into simple shapes.
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