Be more generous with circles when you draw the skeletons of branches
If these are A4 pages, stick to 1-3 big drawings per page
don't chicken-scratch the lines that make up the pots
Stick to 1-3 big plant drawings per page. this applies on insects in the next lesson, too.
your lines are too hesitant. Stop chicken-scratching. If you wanna draw a line, you can only attempt to draw it once. you can't try to draw it again. learn to accept your imperfect lines.
you also need to use the ghosting method more. I'd say for branches and stalks and any long lines you want to draw.
Mistake: Visible tails in a compound stroke,
"Along with ghosting your each stroke before executing it, one thing that may help is to try extending that line half way towards the next ellipse before pulling up, as well as placing the ellipses far enough apart to ensure that "halfway" is a good enough length of runway. You're more likely to end up with a stiff or improperly aimed tail if you haven't got much room to work with."
Mistake: Drawing whole edge in one stroke
The two common mistakes are explained here
Next Steps:
maybe do this excercise more in your warm ups
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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