Hello, thank you for the feedback, it was very helpful. Here are the 50 additional cylinders, I hope they are correct. I uploaded to imgur this time.
Much better. There's two main things I want to call out, but I'll be marking this challenge as complete.
Firstly, be sure to draw through your ellipses two full times before lifting your pen. It's easy to end up going around only one and a half times if you stop paying attention to what you're doing with each individual action.
Secondly, one point you'll want to keep in mind is that the two shifts we see in our cylinders, comparing one end to the other - the shift in scale where the far end is smaller overall, and the shift in degree where the far end is wider than the end closer to the viewer - both serve as visual cues to tell the viewer how much of the form's length is visible on the page, and how much of that length exists in the "unseen" dimension of depth.
As they represent the same thing, they have to operate in tandem. As the scale gets smaller, the degree needs to get comparatively wider. Not perfectly in sync, but roughly similar. So for example, in situations like this, the viewer will pick up on the fact that it looks off, even though they won't specifically know why. Be sure to keep that in mind when applying foreshortening in the future.
So! As promised, I'll go ahead and mark this as complete.
Next Steps:
Move onto lesson 6.
Thank you for the feedback, I will be sure to watch out for those points and improve them.
This is a remarkable little pen. Technically speaking, any brush pen of reasonable quality will do, but I'm especially fond of this one. It's incredibly difficult to draw with (especially at first) due to how much your stroke varies based on how much pressure you apply, and how you use it - but at the same time despite this frustration, it's also incredibly fun.
Moreover, due to the challenge of its use, it teaches you a lot about the nuances of one's stroke. These are the kinds of skills that one can carry over to standard felt tip pens, as well as to digital media. Really great for doodling and just enjoying yourself.
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