Thanks so much for the advice and quick response. I finished the 30 additional cylinders in boxes (the first few still have sideline extended because I only read your message by then) but I did my best to improve according to your feedback.
Hello and first of all thanks a lot for all the indepth advice and resources regarding my question.
When I've began the additional cylinders I realized that in your linked image where you marked the missing minor axes you also marked the sides of the cylinder with red. This I don't quite get because in the 250 Cylinders lesson in the "Checking for errors" section (https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/88b497e2.jpg), there the sides of the cylinder are extended as additional lines.
I've read through all the material a dozen times by now and I just don't get whether the sidelines should be extended. I understand that for all 3 dimensions the minor axes ought to be but this one just leaves me with desperation because I really want to do it correctly this time.
I hope it's aright that I ask this here, I'm just really confused.
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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