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250 Cylinder Challenge

2:28 PM, Tuesday September 7th 2021

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250 cylinders sounds like a lot but I think I need to draw another couple hundred before I actually understand cylinders.

More specifically, I keep running into these issues:

  • My cylinder looks like a squished oval cylinder instead of a round cylinder that is at an angle, and I can't figure out what exactly is the difference. (The first 150 cylinders)

  • My cylinders with more foreshortening look like cones instead of looking like foreshortened cylinders.

  • I don't know how to keep two edges of the box the same length and this squishes my cylinders. How do I draw boxes with edges of the same length in perspective?

Thanks for checking my work. Any critique is welcome.

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