Starting with your arrows, these are coming along quite well - you're focusing a great deal on that smooth, confident execution, which really pushes the sense of fluidity with which they move through the world. This carries over very nicely into your leaves, where you're capturing not only how they sit statically in 3D space, but also how they move through the space they occupy.

Generally you've handled the edge detail and more complex leaf structures quite well, except for two cases:

• On this leaf you end up zigzagging your edge detail back and forth across the existing edge, which as explained here should be avoided, as it results in a weaker relationship between the different phases of construction. This results in less of that solidity from the simpler state carrying forward as we build up more complexity.

• And here, while your approach is fine in a constructional sense, your markmaking is rather sloppy, and needs to be given more time, especially when it comes to the planning and preparation phases of the ghosting method.

Continuing onto your branches, it seems you may have neglected to read through the instructions for this one as closely as you could have. As explained here, each edge segment goes from one ellipse, past the second, and stops halfway to the third, with the next segment starting at the second ellipse and repeating the pattern. This results in a healthy overlap between the segments, which in turn provides a more seamless transition from segment to segment - something you ended up minimizing quite a bit.

As a whole, your plant constructions are coming along pretty well, save for one main overarching issue. There are two things that we must give each of our drawings throughout this course in order to get the most out of them. Those two things are space and time. Right now it appears that you are thinking ahead to how many drawings you'd like to fit on a given page. It certainly is admirable, as you clearly want to get more practice in, but in artificially limiting how much space you give a given drawing, you're limiting your brain's capacity for spatial reasoning, while also making it harder to engage your whole arm while drawing. 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.

This actually relates directly to the one issue you noted - skinny branches are quite difficult. That is absolutely true, and while drawing bigger makes those branches/stems wider, that may seem like avoiding the issue. That's not quite the case, however - in getting used to approaching those branch structures correctly at a larger scale, we can gradually work our way down. Jumping right in merely puts us in a position to run into those issues without enough traction to really understand how to approach improving them - at least, not as effectively.

Everything else is coming along fine - so I'll leave you to practice your plants at a larger scale on your own, and will mark this lesson as complete.