WOW. I just realized you were talking about ellipses, as in oval shape type things, and not ellipses plural of ellipsis, as in ... . I was amazed at Numoryn's suggestion that you twist a spiral notebook wire into the shape of an ellipsis I figured that surely somewhere you must be able to find a stencil template with the appropriate sized dot in it!
McDuffies wrote:I tried cutting my own stencils, but edges never turn out smooth enough.
McDuffies wrote:I got those curves too... I don't even know how to begin to use it.
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:McDuffies wrote:I got those curves too... I don't even know how to begin to use it.
Yeah me neither. I figured that you might, though. Being born in 1979 and all.
Numoryn wrote:Do you just use a scissors? I've found that those Exacto knives are fairly precise around curves, especially when you have the thicker paper. Wish I could think up something else for you.
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:Yeah me neither. I figured that you might, though. Being born in 1979 and all.
Well, I tried going on to YouTube to find "How to draw speech bubbles" and "How to draw an elliptical..." I didn't find much there, but I now know how to make the perfect circle using four toothpicks, a rubberband, and a marker.
McDuffies wrote:I know how to draw ellipse using a string and two pins. I'd have to perforate a paper though.
Lostmind wrote:You might try looking at stencils used in professional drafting or drafting books.
Wendybird wrote:A compass is a circle drawing machine which is basically just a pointy thing and a pencil hinged together. You can replicate one by attaching two pencils together at the back end with a rubber band, then jamming an object in between them and keeping it in place with another rubber band. You can move the object up and down the pencils to change the size of the circle.
The compass method does not produce mathematically correct "ellipses."
McDuffies wrote:Wendybird wrote:A compass is a circle drawing machine which is basically just a pointy thing and a pencil hinged together. You can replicate one by attaching two pencils together at the back end with a rubber band, then jamming an object in between them and keeping it in place with another rubber band. You can move the object up and down the pencils to change the size of the circle.
The compass method does not produce mathematically correct "ellipses."
Oh, I didn't know that was the english term. I got those, i just don't know how to draw elipses with them.
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