Hello DatKexMonster, I'm happy to hear you've had fun while tackling this lesson. I'm ThatOneMushroomGuy and I'll be the TA handling your critique today.

Arrows

Starting with your arrows for the most part you're doing a good job of capturing the fluidity that arrows have as they move through space with your confident linework. But you can still improve upon this as your linework still has visible signs of hesitation, remember to use the ghosting method as many times as necessary before committing to a line, when you do feel confident enough execute your mark swiftly as to not allow your brain enough time to course correct as you draw your line.

You're making good use of the depth of the page with your use of perspective and your hatching is correctly placed.

Another thing you can change is how much black you add to your arrow's overlaps. This much black is not necessary. This "shading' is only used to differentiate between overlaps, so some well placed hatching lines with some extra lineweight added with confidence on top is enough to do the trick.

Leaves

The sense of fluidity you had in your arrows carries over nicely into your leaves, they're looking very organic and have a great sense of energy with how they move through the space they occupy. You're also making good use of the complex leaf construction method.

What can be improved here is your use of edge detail, while you seem not to be trying to capture more than one piece of detail at a time - which is great - for this leaf you're drawing your marks way too small, this is harmful to your construction as the detail is so small it starts to become almost imdistinguishable from a straight line.

And lastly you're often approaching the textures on your leaves in an explicit manner by drawing thin lines that run along the surface of the leaf. Here's a good reminder on how texture in drawabox should be approached.

Branches

Onto your branches it's great to see you following instructions and applying them well to this exercise. Your ellipses are drawn through most of the time - so remember to always draw through them - and they have a good application of ellipse degrees variation which helps solidify the branches.

You're also using the branch construction method well, but you can still improve in this aspect as I can notice that you're not always extending your lines for your branches correctly, sometimes you end your extension lines too further down, remember that this line must stop at the halfway point between ellipses.

You also have visible tails in your compound strokes but this isn't something to worry about too much, it's completely expected at this stage and as you continue practicing this exercise your accuracy will naturally improve, but one thing you can attempt is to start superimposing your new line on top of the previous one regardless of how much it diverged from the intended path.

Plant Construction Section

Continuing on to your plant constructions, they're coming along quite nicely, you're following the instructions for the most part and your constructions are looking quite solid as a result.

There are a couple of points I'd like to mention however:

• It's great to see that you've constructed your King Oyster Mushroom around a minor axis, just keep in mind that this doesn't apply only to plants and branches, but for all objects that are cylindrical in nature, pots and vases should also be approached this way.

• You're not always applying the leaf construction method as it should be. Remember to always follow instructions closely and to maintain tight, specific relationships between the phases of construction. So keep in mind that the outer edges must end exactly where the tip of the flow line does.

It's also great to see you using the complex leaf construction method and experimenting with it.

• Even though you have a good use of ellipse's degrees in your page of branches, sometimes you forget to apply this concept to your plant constructions such as in this plant which slightly flattens some parts of your construction.

I can see that you're struggling with keeping all of your petal's lenghts consistent in your Daisy demo, if we refer back to the Hibiscus Demo we can see that it's possible to establish how far out your petals will go with an ellipse, just remember that if you decide to use this method your petals must abide by this step of construction and not break the boundaries established by flowing past it.

This is much more on the nitpicky side, but your pages would definitely have benefitted from some added lineweight to help reinforce your forms and how they relate to other forms drawn in the scene.

Final Thoughts

Overall you've done really well in this lesson, you're applying the concepts taught in the lesson with only a couple of minor hiccups and your plants are turning out quite tridimensional due to that.

Make sure to keep the points I mention here in mind and going forward be a little more careful when following instructions. I'm going to be marking this lesson as complete as I believe you're ready to tackle the challenges introduced in the next lesson. Good luck in Lesson 4.