6:49 AM, Saturday March 27th 2021
Starting with your arrows, you've drawn these with a sense of confidence and fluidity in 3D space. Just be sure that your hatching lines are nice and tight. This carries nicely onto your leaves as well. Good job on that! However, the edge detail on this leaf in particular defined for each stroke was too complex and should have been broken into separate stages as shown here. Same with this one. Remember to always break it down into their simplest components first when building complexity.
Additionally, remember the markmaking principles on lesson 2s texture section. I see you're making attemlts to draw the veins as forms on either side rather than drawing the veins themselves as lines. This is definitely more correct-even then, try not to just put lines down. Force yourself to always draw cast shadow shapes using this two-step process to help improve your mark making.
Continuing onto the branches exercise, they are looking good overall. I am seeing a bit of visible tails on the overlap especially when the branch was bent more drastically. In these cases, it might be good to add some ellipses in between to make the distances more manageable.
Moving to the plant constructions, overall you're doing pretty well. You're employing the techniques covered in this lesson to build up to your plants in stages. There are a few things you should keep in mind moving forwards, however:
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First and foremost, as much as I appreciate your enthusiasm for filling up your pages with lots of drawings, the most important thing is to make sure that you're giving ample room as a drawing requires. Drawing smaller has its downsides. It can limit our brain's ability to solve spatial problems and with engaging our whole arm while drawing. Both of these make the drawing process clumsier and impede what we get out of it.
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Construct your cylinders around the central minor axis line-this includes your pots-to help keep the ellipses alligned. To that point, I'm glad to see you're drawing more than the two basic ellipses for them. Just make sure you're adding an additional inset within the base to establish the thickness of that pot.
You're making some good progress overall, so I'm marking this as complete.
Next Steps:
Lesson 4