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9:18 PM, Monday March 8th 2021
Starting with your arrows, these are spot on. They're drawn with confidence, and convey a strong sense of fluidity and movement. Moving onto your leaves, you're definitely carrying the same sense of confidence over, and pinning down not only how the leaves sit in space, but also how they move through the space they occupy.
When it comes to capturing greater complexity - both in edge detail and in structure - you're moving in the right direction, although remember that construction is all about breaking complex problems into a series of simpler ones that can be solved more easily. Make sure that whenever you add any complexity to a structure, that it can be supported by the structure that already exists. If it requires your next addition to be more complex, then you may need an intermediary step as shown here on another student's work. A situation where you jumped ahead in complexity is this area, where that little additional spike you added should have been constructed as its own independent leaf shape.
Continuing onto your branches, your work here is for the most part looking pretty good. You aren't entirely conscientious in ensuring that your segments extend fully halfway to the next ellipse, but you're pretty close and you're managing a pretty smooth transition from one segment to the next. You're also doing a good job of keeping the width of your branches fairly consistent throughout their lengths.
Moving onto your plant constructions, your work here is honestly for the most part really well done. You've done a great job of building up your forms in stages, and demonstrating a developing grasp of how each form exists in 3D space. Your constructions feel quite solid as well, and the relationships between your forms are well defined, resulting in believable results.
The only thing I want you to take a little more time with is adding edge detail to your leaves, and avoiding situations where your edge detail zigzags across the simpler edge, as shown here. It's clear that you're avoiding zigzagging ([as explained here]()) in most cases, but there are definitely areas where you're still a little loose in ensuring that the added edge detail is built solidly off the existing structure. When we zigzag like that, we create a looser, more vague relationship.
Also, I noticed that when you build up that edge detail, you do leave little gaps or overshoot past the existing leaf's edge, resulting in yet more looseness to the relationships between the existing structure and what is being added (as seen here). Just being more careful and investing more time into planning and preparing before each stroke will help with this.
Aside from that, great work. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.
Next Steps:
Move onto lesson 4.
Pentel Pocket Brush Pen
This is a remarkable little pen. Technically speaking, any brush pen of reasonable quality will do, but I'm especially fond of this one. It's incredibly difficult to draw with (especially at first) due to how much your stroke varies based on how much pressure you apply, and how you use it - but at the same time despite this frustration, it's also incredibly fun.
Moreover, due to the challenge of its use, it teaches you a lot about the nuances of one's stroke. These are the kinds of skills that one can carry over to standard felt tip pens, as well as to digital media. Really great for doodling and just enjoying yourself.