Hi Cynsh, I've checked your submission,

Before starting out the critique, I've wanted to give you some advice on presentation of your work, remember that the easier you make for the ones critiquing, the best you are helping them. So, try to take the pictures of your work on a direct angle, right now it feels a little weird the angle in which I'm seeing your work, another thing is to rotate your pictures before posting them, it will just make all easier to look at!

Now on to the actual critique, starting by your organic arrows, I like how you make them flow through the page, though let me givo you some advice on how to make them also flow in depth and closer! Try making them smaller as they get away from the viewer and also make the spaces between turns of the arrow bigger as it gets closer. Also, here is a quick demo that shows the correct use of line weight and cast shadows on organic arrows.

Moving on to your leaves, good job on building the details on top on the leaves! Also, keep experimenting with different flows with your leaves, the more variety you practice the better! One extra thing is that you haven't really applied cast shadows nor line weight in your leaves, the method is the same as in the organic arrows, though remember that they are important tools that we use to communicate things to the viewer, they are not just an extra detail; they are part of the construction phase.

In your branches good job on shifting the degrees of the ellipses, this will help you sell a good illusion of depth, though try to apply it to every branch you do and also your plants in general. This shift in degrees is seen in everything, so take it into account in future constructions.

Overall, your plants look well constructed, though the biggest issue that I'm seeing right now is that there is still too much blank spaces on those pages! Now, I know it ain't easy constructing plants for the first time, but remember that you should be making the most out of every assignment from this course, after all, it's full of knowledge for use to exploit, and for free! What I'm trying to say here, is that I advice you to make the most out of this lessons, try to take advantage of the fact that if you make mistakes, someone will make a critique on it and you will be able to improve on it!

All this being said, let's talk about textures! During this course, every texture that you applied is supposed to be as you did it on lesson 2, which summarized is doing it implicitly with the use of cast shadows. Here is a demonstration I did for another critique. So taking all that I said on that demo and seeing your work I can see that when you are applying texture, you are trying to explicitly draw every detail, this is a very common mistake, what you need to start doing is to suggest that the texture is there by applying some cast shadows like you did on your texture analysis exercise. I suggest you go back to this video from lesson 2 where Uncomfy explains the difference between explicit and implicit textures.

Now on to line weight, remember that cast shadows ad line weight are part of the construction, they help clarify to the viewer and to yourself, what's on top of what and what's behind of what. Here is a demo on one of your plants where I applied some line weight and cast shadows to communicate better how this three leaves interact with each other. Here is a demo I did on someone else critique where I explain more deeply how you are supposed to apply this tools.

Now, I'm gonna ask for a revision, not much really but I want you to do one more construction of a plant of your choice. The important thing that I want you to do is to draw as big as you can, try to use the most of the page with only one construction of one plant, and apply all what I talked about line weight and cast shadows, though texture is optional.