I find that my cylinders didn't go that well as i for the most part drew a cylinder over existing ones or did one too many. Some are a bit flat at the far back too.
Did with the cylinders in boxes 3 per page so it felt less cluttered and make them bigger. Last page has 4 instead of 3.
I think that towards the beginning, you definitely struggled a great deal with aligning your ellipses (I think some of your correction lines may have still been a little off, underexaggerating the mistakes). You definitely showed considerable improvement with this however as you continued through, and by the end of the first section, your cylinders were coming along much better. There are a couple things I do want to draw your attention to however:
You have a tendency to draw through your ellipses way too much. While drawing through your ellipses is required and encouraged, as explained here you should only be doing it 2-3 times (2 times is ideal). Otherwise you lose track of the ellipse you're trying to draw, and things just get too messy and hairy.
I actually haven't explained this in the notes, it's something give students the opportunity to identify on their own - but basically, if you look at cases like 76, 71, 65, 54, etc. where you've got really really dramatic shifts in scale from one end to the other (the far end gets way smaller overall) but minimal shifts in degree (the far one isn't that much wider than the near end), those are incorrect. This is because both shifts - scale (bigger end, smaller end) and degree (narrower end, wider end) are the result of foreshortening, and tell us whether the cylinder is either long or short (or more specifically, whether the far end is close to the near end, or farther away). Therefore they will always work on concert with one another - you either get the far end only a little smaller and only a little wider, or a lot smaller and a lot wider. You won't end up in situations where the far end is a lot smaller but only a little wider, or vice versa.
Moving onto your cylinders in boxes, I think you've got some really fantastic results here. The key thing this part of the exercise is meant to teach students isn't actually about how to draw cylinders - it's about how to draw boxes. Or more specifically, boxes that have two opposite pairs of faces that are proportionally square. If you think about how the line extensions help us get better at drawing boxes with sets of parallel lines, the cylinder becomes an addition to this "correction" technique, where we are able to test whether or not a face is proportionally square by placing an ellipse inside of it and testing where the vanishing points would have to be in order for that ellipse to be a circle in 3D space. If those vanishing points line up with the box's vanishing points, then you've got it - the faces that contain the ellipses are indeed square.
Honestly, you've done a really good job with this section of the exercise, and your estimation of those proportions are looking great. I think your overall confidence with cylinders as a whole has also improved massively compared to how you started in this challenge.
So, I'll go ahead and mark this challenge as complete. Keep up the great work.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto lesson 6.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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