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DRAWING VESSELS 101 HOW TO DRAW E L L I P S E S
A Single Vessel
Once you have mastered drawing free-hand springs, you can start
to control your spinning ellipse to make a vessel.

One Inside Another

Finding Shape and Volume Seeing Through Grouped Together
Draw an imagined vessel in one continuous Allow lines to travel around each vessel as if it
spinning line. Draw quickly, working from top to were transparent. Altering the pressure—and Create a Solid Surface
bottom, enlarging and diminishing the ellipse to therefore tone—of the line as it spins gives the Once you have drawn the shape and volume of
determine the overall shape and volume. impression of light shining on one side.
each form, you can make it solid by building up
highlights and tones on visible surfaces, thereby
hiding lines that show the other sides.