Hi Shady4Sketcher,

I've checked your submission,

Organic Arrows look like you are making an effort to make them explore the space you have in the page, though, a recommendation to create a stronger illusion of depth would be to don't be so shy at the moment of making the spaces between the turns of the arrows bigger as they ge closer to the vewer.

Another thing that I see is that you are applying line weight to all the arrow, don't, line weight it's a tool that's supposed to be usedsubtly. Here is a quick demo on how to apply your line wieght and also where to put your shadows.

Leaveshave good flow to them, though sometimes it's difficult to decipher which side is turning where. This can be easily fixed by applying shadows and line wieght as I showed you on the last point!

You didn't submit a branches exercise, I don't think it's a big deal since probably you just forgot to submit it. However, there is a common issue that I see in, not only your branches, but every cylinder like shape, you are not varying the degrees of the ellipses. Here is exactly what I mean, this is a key element to solidify the illusion of depth.

I agree with what yo said about your plants submission, you went ham with the textures. This is not wrong, but remember that DaB is a construction-focused course, so that's where your focus should be, always give your time and effort to making a solid and believable 3d form, and then apply texture if you want.

First thing that I've noticed are your ellipses it's that they are a little messy, remember that you are supposed to go over them only twice, and take your time to ghost them. Also remember what I have already explained about varying the degress.

Another thing that I wanted to touch on is that whenever you are tackling textures in any subject, you should do it in an implicit way as you did in the texture analysis of the lesson 2. Here is a demo I did on another critique, but you can apply the same principles to your exercises.

Last thing that I've noticed is how you did the construction of the mushroom of the last page, I noticed that you cut into your original form. Now, this is not recommended in this stage of the course, since it can go very wrong very quickly, always make an effort to build on top of your forms. Here is what I mean applied to a leaf.

Now, I'm not marking this lesson as completed yet, submit the branch exercise if you have forgot to. But, if you just forgot to do it at all, do it and try to apply what I told you about the varying the degrees of your ellipses.