👉 This points out what confused me: You need to understand how the ellipse on each axis is wrapping around the foreshortening of the sphere. 👉 This is the answer I was looking for: You also need to understand that each ellipse is really a circle. With a sphere, all points on its surface are equidistant from its center. 👉 My final thoughts: I was technically correct with the assumption when a sphere is out of sight (view point) it will be disorted. However this effect is not realy noticable so we can ignore it. The ellipses of a sphere are circles even with disortion. 👉 A little side hustle I had was to use the correct terms for 3D objects. Something like: square = cube rectangle = quader triangle = pyramid circle = sphere (well messed up with that one - it's a cylinder) sphere = sphere and so on. I mean you did that in primary school like me but now I have to do it in two languages I am not a pro in (english & drawing - my english is way better than my drawing). And I also was sleeping on geometry, so just for clarification. 🤌🫵🙏

I think you're confusing a sphere with a circle.With a sphere, all points on its surface are equidistant from its center. The contour you drew are correct, but they mainly show the 3-dimensional quality if the sphere. The only perspective quality of a sphere is that it looks smaller as the distance increases. A silhouette will always be a circle regardless of its orientation or position. It will never be an oval. If the object you are trying to draw is a circle or disk (say a coin or an old-time record), its orientation is important. If you move around a disk, you can get a silhouette correctly represented by your middle drawing. I hope this helps alleviate your confussion.