Hi Lefebul I'll be handling the critique for your lesson 3 homework.

-Starting with your arrows, you are drawing confident and have kept in mind the foreshortening and negative space between the ribbons in mind, I only have one minor observation, try to keep the lineweight as subtle as you can, these ribbons are essentially flat so you couldn't flatten them out more, but it is something to remember in the future.

-Moving on to the leaves exercise, the initial fluidity with which you drew your arrows carries over here, you're also doing a good job of building up more complex edge detail, adding little bumps and cuts individually and integrating them more seamlessly into the existing structure, rather than creating a mess of loosely related lines on a flat page.

• I don't see that you are trying to draw more complex leaf structures like maple leaves, for your future warm up I'd like you to draw these more complex leaves.

-Continuing on to the branches exercise I think there are a number of places where you could improve.

• Make sure that each segment extends fully halfway to the next ellipse, there are some examples where I can see that you fall short.

• Try to use that last 'tail' of the previous segment as a runway, overlapping it directly before shooting off towards the next target. As demonstrated here, this along with the previous point's extension to that midpoint helps to achieve a smoother, more seamless transition from segment to segment.

-Moving on to the plant constructions themselves, you have done pretty well. and I can see definite growth and improvement over the set.

• So regarding your doubts about spacing, the best approach to use here is to ensure that the first drawing on a given page is given as much room as it requires. Only when that drawing is done should we assess whether there is enough room for another. If there is, we should certainly add it, and reassess once again. If there isn't, it's perfectly okay to have just one drawing on a given page as long as it is making full use of the space available to it.

I will mention that I don't see large signs that suggest drawing smaller as you've done here has really interfered with your work - your lines still flow smoothly, and you still work through your constructions with care - it's just one of those things that can end up being an issue later on, so it's best to push one's self to draw big earlier on.

-I also want to make a point regarding your use of organic forms, if you look at your strawberry drawing, I can see that you tried to capture the form of these with a single form, and then you altered it silhouette. The best thing to do here is to start by laying a very simple organic form without any bulges or pinching, keep in mind that you also have to capture the flow of these,

Once you have done that, add the more complex details and additional masses, the best diagram that I can show you for this is here, you have to add 3D forms that wrap around the existing structure

-And the other thing I wanted to talk about is texture and detail. There are a lot of cases here where I think you've handled texture quite well, and I think that you are doing a good job overall of keeping the principles from Lesson 2 in mind. One thing I want to suggest however is that you avoid drawing any textural marks with singular, independent strokes.

The main thing I'd suggest is to actively draw these textural marks using a 2 step process, first of outlining a closed, intentionally designed shadow shape, then filling it in as shown here. This has a couple benefits:

• As mentioned in that diagram, it yields more dynamic shadow shapes that can taper more noticeably, whereas simple lines tend to feel more static and stiff.

• It also gives us an opportunity to be much more intentional with the design of those shadow shapes, and to think more about how each shape relates to the form that is meant to cast it. Right now your one-off strokes tend to result in somewhat less specific marks, so being given a little more time to think through each individual one's design will be well worth it, even if it means spending a ton more time on a given drawing.