Q&A for How to Draw a Circle

It’s hard to do it freehand, but you can make a perfect or almost perfect circle pretty easily by tracing a circular object or using a compass.

You can set a compass at a wide setting or trace a large circular object, such as a dinner plate or the bottom of a flat frying pan.

The distance around the outside of a circle is called the circumference, while the distance across is called the diameter. If you measure from the center of the circle to a point on the outer edge, that’s the radius. Other parts include a sector (a wedge or slice of the circle that goes from the center to 2 points on the outer edge), an arc (part of the outer edge of the circle), and a chord (a line drawn through any 2 points on the circle—the diameter is a kind of chord).

Much as you do but they used different mediums, such as soil, ochres, rock tints and the like.