one can draw a circle by using a piece of string attached to a pencil rotated around a central point. An oval shape can be done using a similar method. I've seen it done; but I don't remember how.
2007-01-10 05:31:06 · 8 answers · asked by robbie 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
2 nails about 2 inches apart, that simple.
2007-01-10 05:35:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you place two tacks next to eachother as if they were on a horizontal line in the middle of a paper, you can make an oval by putting one string around both tacks. If you place you pencil with the string also around it, you can make an oval. The closer the tacks the more circlish it will be, the futher away they are, the more ellipse (squished circle like) it will be.
2007-01-10 05:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by ptwooton 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tie down BOTH ends of the string leaving some slack. Now use your pencil to pull the string taught. Move the pencil aroung while keeping the string tight. You'll get an oval.
2007-01-10 05:36:25 · answer #3 · answered by DT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tie a string to a pencil
hold the string on the paper and draw
An oval is NOT a perfect circle
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2007-01-10 05:34:41 · answer #4 · answered by god knows and sees else Yahoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
place two thumbtacks on a sheet of paper. loop the string around the tacks and draw the oval that way. the closer the tacks,the rounder the oval. the farther away the tacks are,the more ovoid the shape will be...
2007-01-10 05:36:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
3 nails in a triangle shape
2007-01-10 05:33:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello
2 nails
Attach string to 1st nail then go to 2nd nail then to first then to 2nd
When 1st nail is touched got to 2nd nail and touch 1st nail then go back to 2nd nail and around to 1st nail once nail has been touched again got to 2nd nail then back to first nail.......I think that's nailed it :)
Good luck with the answers
2007-01-10 05:39:13 · answer #7 · answered by Police Artist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What?
2007-01-10 05:34:50 · answer #8 · answered by Ryeroe 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-01-10 05:34:02 · answer #9 · answered by Me 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋