i guess
but for a more extreme example of what i mean look at the first step in the daisy demo.
the ellipses are not placed in the center and i cant figure out why
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but if Meta's on the right track there and you're asking why the ellipses aren't perfectly centered on the minor axis line, it's because I'm not giving myself infinite attempts to nail it. As everyone else only has one shot with a fineliner, I also give myself one shot despite using digital tools. Things don't turn out perfectly, but you keep going - I don't want students to think that imperfect drawing should be scrapped, and to get caught up in the little flaws.
im really sorry for my bad explanations let me try again
i'm wondering why the ellipses in the flower crown and the mushroom crowns ellipses aren't centered along the major axis. in the top ellips of the stem of the flower and mushroom
You mean minor axis, not major axis.
So an attempt was made to align the ellipses of the daisy's stem to the minor axis I'd drawn, but once that was in place, I wasn't concerned with aligning to it when drawing the hemisphere in the middle because I was more focused on what I was seeing in my reference. You could choose to extend the minor axis beyond that point and align everything to it, but if you see how my initial minor axis had been drawn, and if you imagine how it might be extended, it was curving off slightly, and that would have resulted in issues in the positioning of the hemisphere.
For the mushroom however, if you look at the reference the cap extends much farther to the right than to the left of the stem. I could have (and should have) drawn a minor axis for the stem itself, but the cap still would have existed separately in order to achieve this imbalance in the reference.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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