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Thanks for the helpful review, I was very mad at this course during various points but have to admit that I learned a lot in these few lessons. Just wanna add that for me drawing curved lines with set points were a great addition to the exercises. It improved my initial leaf shape a lot which often made me start all over when I screwed it up

Cheers Ruby

Sorry for taking so long to respond, looks fine overall, nice texture analysis

Hello there, heres a quick review:

your arrows look great and so do your branches. The didn't put a lot of effort in the normal leaves but at least they flow nice.

The mushrooms on your first page of plants are quite good even tho they could use a bit more lineweight on the overlapping edges. They still read good because of your clean ellipses, but that doesn't mean you should skip that step. Also the cactus on the top right is a bit confusing, probably because it is missing some construction lines and the way you've drawn it, it would be flat on the backside.

I like the plants on the second page but the large one is missing a stem, the one on the top left is incomplete at best and you didn't use lineweight in any of them. You also cheated your way out of drawing the petals that extend to the back which are undoubtedly the most difficult ones to draw but thats why we also need to practice them.

The acorn leaf on the next page looks good but it has a too strong perspective for a single leaf I think. The other plant and twig on that page are well constructed, good job. The flower on the bottom right not so much. All the petals bend in different directions which is not how it happens in nature. The width of the petals dont change a lot so you only need to draw it thicker in one part if it bends and yours are all thicker in the middle section for no reason.

So fourth page of the submission is on of the best ones, good job but you really need to reread where to put line weight at overlapping areas. "reinforce your overlaps with a bit of extra line weight. A good rule of thumb for applying line weight at overlapping points is that the line that crosses on top gets the thicker treatment, to establish its dominance" -uncomfortable.

Good job on the cantalaupe, it is a hard plant to draw but you did it decent, maybe just a bit more thickness to the offspringing leafs. For the other plant you should watch that the leafs actually meet in the middle and don't stop at the outer ring.

The large sunflower looking plant is a bit confusing to me because I dont know any plant that has leafs like that but I'm also not an expert so if they actually look like you've drawn them then tell me the name because I wanna draw them too haha. You could have split the construction of each leaf in more sections to make it a bit easier, then you probably wouldn't have forgotten to finish the construction of some leafs. I don't know what to say about the plant below that, it kinda just looks like a penis to me lmao. Same about the next page, its kind of unsuitable here.

Your final page is great because it shows that you shouldn't construct branches and plants without thinking about what you want to draw and then actually thinking about how you go about constructing it because you didn't apply the construction method for leafs here because you wanted to make it look good but that is not the goal of this exercise as uncomfortable always says it.

Overall you did decent but you should go over or your paintings and add a little bit of lineweight and see what difference it makes. Also you didn't really do a lot of texture on most of your plants so I want one large drawing of a plant with texture and then you can pass this lesson. And don't forget to practice the leafs that extend to the back!

First of all you should use a wider pen. You're using a pilot pen which is great but not recommended for these exercises.

your leaves look fine, even tho some are way too wavy which is i guess still a good training. The branches are alright even tho you should work on keeping a consistant width.

The first page of plants is good even tho the mushroom in the middle looks very rushed and the flower on the top left has some haphazard shadowing that is very confusing instead of using lineweight which would have worked a lot better.

Second page is pretty bad. You should draw your plants a lot bigger because some branches are just a single line which doesnt provide any learning effect. This is more of a leaf exercise instead of plants.

third page is better, the leaves flow nicely except the ones in the back, maybe watch out for them a bit more. The flower in the top left corner is way to small to judge properly but generally still not enough use of lineweight.

fourth page you stopped drawing through your ellipses in the cactus and I dont know whats going on with the petals of the flower in the middle but the weird dark line you have in the middle doesnt do anything. The branch next to it is also not consistent at all.

Fifth page is decent, but you could have applied some more shadow information on the left one and the top right one. And again not enough line weight in the bottom right one.

There is a lot going on in the next image. To start off with the plant on the left: the branches look good and the leaves are generally nicely flowing but you didnt use any shadowing or lineweight which makes them hard to read and you should also do some leaves that move in the back.

The plant on the top right is very messy because youve drawn through your ellipses way too often, two times is generally enough and again no lineweight and a very light pen. Nothing to say about the one in the bottom right.

The strawberry on the next page is good but think back to the texture lesson before, that the indents on the bottom cast more shadow than the ones on the top and also think about where they cast a shadow and dont do it arbitrarily like on the very top. And you didnt draw through your ellipses on the strawberry and the pear and the branches here are also off.

The final page is probably the best one. It has a good sense of spacial awareness but the same issues as before with the linweight and shadows and not drawing through the ellipses. And final addition: watch out for the leaf on the top left, the lines going off from the middle look kind of stiff and not matching to the leaf.

I understand your concern that I'm not constructing the plants in the correct way and therefor need to repeat the lesson, even tho I was thrilled to finally start with the insects lesson.

One question I have going back to the flowers is that when I wanted to draw a flower like this https://imgur.com/a/0kY0Rtg I didn't know if i was allowed to draw the flow line and then use it as one side of the petal or if I have to build around it, because I think that would have confused the image

Sorry that it took me so long but here are the exercises :

https://imgur.com/a/PxEdkua

This time I understood the subject matter a lot better and when practicing ghosted lines again I also realised what I was doing wrong with them :).

I did the form intersections all in black marker as you said, which made it a lot more challenging but I definitely increased my cleanliness from doing so .

Thanks you for the friendly words, I will definitely be more ensuing to the instructions and keep the doodling off the box - pages :)

Thanks for the harsh but honest review. Ill defenitely revisit some of the exercises now that I know what I have missed because for the most part I thought that my way of doing the exercises was just as effective but now I can clearly see that I was a bit too conceited going into this.