Nigelpik's sketchbook

[nigelpik]

I definitely see what you're talking about. My ellipses are indeed pointy and not symmetrical. I don't know about the degree, though, since it indicates the thickness of the bean, but the thickness itself is arbitrary. The bean can be thicker of thinner in certain places and the only way to know is the ellipse. It's hard for me to imagine how I can improve my degrees, except to draw more and have a better feel of the form.

But I will definitely keep working on my ellipses, since I plan on doing 250 cylinder challenge in the near future, and I will add organic jelly beans to the repertoire of my daily art workout.

Today, I tried to do more beans, and focus a lot more on the shape and the curvature.




I wanted to do more, but sadly, didn't have an opportunity today. I aim to advance with second lesson tomorrow.