Hi Introvert2005! I'll be reviewing your homework. Let's see:

Organic Arrows: Great work with your lines, they are really confident and fluid, your lineweight looks great as well. I think the one thing you're lacking is compressing your edges more as the arrows move away, like on this example. Notice that your arrows, although they do get bigger as they get close, have some inconsistent line space compression. Like the one of the center left, which has less space as it gets bigger, contradicting itself.

Leaves: Good job here as well, they flow in space quite well, and you followed all the steps in order. I would've liked to see more variety on the way the leaves turn though. Watch out for when you're making the edges, don't redraw the whole edge again, like you did on the leftmost upper leave; just add the edge shapes that you're going to add.

Branches: Your branches look good enough, but there are some issues. First, you keep the degree of the ellipses almost the same throughout each branch. Remember that the ellipses determine how the shape is turning in three 3D space, and even on straight cylinders, the ellipses will change it's degree depending on from where you're standing. Like this. You can look at these images as well, they're a great help for understanding how the ellipses work on real life.

Another issue has to do with your edge lines. While your linework is still great, remember that we overshoot our ellipses, and then start the next section from the ellipse we just passed, overlapping those two lines as seen here. On some branches you started and ended lines at random points. Avoiding that will also help you with the issue of overlapping the lines. Overlapping is hard enough, so don't undermine yourself by starting lines at random points.

Plant drawings:

You did good here as well, although there are things to correct. Your daisy and snake plant look good enough, but you did cut corners on your potato plant. Remember that for the purposes of these exercises, as tiring as it can be, you have to put care in each leave you make, something that didn't happen here. Your initial shape isn't enclosed completely most of the time, and some of the leaves that fold back on themselves aren't drawn through.

On your cherry blossoms you carry on all the problems from your branches. Remember as well that, while the arrows at the tip of the flow line of the leaves can help you visualize how they move into space, when you're drawing the edges, they have to converge on the tip of your flow line. If you don't do that, it feel like you are sketching more than constructing your exercises, and that defeats the whole purpose. Philodendron shares the same problems as well. An advice relating to long, thin branches: they work better with less ellipses, it makes them feel more solid.

On the Swiss Cheese plant, you started re-drawing the whole leaf again, instead of just adding edge complexity. Also at times, in this plant and the Lily, you completely ignored the construction when making the edges, especially on the petals that fold back on themselves. Finally, remember that when we're drawing edge complexity, we make lines and stop when we reach the edge of our initial leaf, then make another mark if we need it; no zig-zaging, no freehand.

Remember: the point of drawing these plants is of making exercises in construction, not replicating the reference, not sketching. Similar problems occur on your sweet orange and your pears, although your leaves are better enclosed this time.

Your cone flowers, cactus and aloe vera are quite better regarding all the problems we've discussed. I think you got confused on one leaf of your aloe though, as your contour lines contradict themselves with the edge detail you drew. Both your mushrooms look nice, good work with the texture as well. Be careful with your ellipses though, your fly agaric has one quite misaligned at the top.

Finally, your pitcher plant and wild banana look good as well, although this last one has the same mistakes we discussed in relation to the edge detail, and even some scratchy lines.

In summary, you're not doing bad at all: your lines are confident, fluid; you obviously understand the way things behave on 3D space, but you're being too relaxed when it comes to actually applying the things we learned at the lessons onto the actual drawings. Remember that, as pretty as they can look, the plant drawings are still an exercise, same as a box or a bunch of arrows, and we want them for learning the concepts, not to look nice. And so, you have to be as careful and precise as you would be with any other exercise. So you don't sketch, and you don't ignore the lines you establish as your scaffolding. Remember that you don't have to replicate what's in the reference perfectly.

So, I'll ask that you make 2 more drawings of plants, no detail, hopefully with lots of leafs/petals and some branches as well. Work big, one plant per page. Give the lesson a re-read, especially the section on leaves and branches. Your main focus should be on following the steps as they are laid on the lesson. Also, draw one more page of Organic Arrows, and put a special focus on making them travel through space, through the compression of space as they move away, and viceversa. Good luck, and if you have questions, I'll be happy to answer them.