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freehand ellipse in 250 cylinder challenge?

7:25 AM, Wednesday September 24th 2025

for the cylinders are we supposed to freehand them, or do we mark the distance and orientation of the ellipse first before we ghost and draw them in the 250 cylinder challenge?

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6:43 PM, Wednesday September 24th 2025

Generally when it comes to the application of the ghosting method to ellipses, at most we identify the nature of the ellipse we wish to make by marking out a minor axis line, which is part of the steps for that exercise. That said, you can put down small points to try and better track the outer limits of the ellipse you'd like to draw (as long as they remain small and are easily engulfed by the ellipse when drawn), but most students don't go that far.

1:18 PM, Sunday September 28th 2025

Oh ok, thanks for replying! (Was not expecting you to personally answer my question, but yeh thanks again!)

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