Before I get into the critique, to answer your question there, it's very important to work on an illustration from big to small, and avoiding getting caught up too much in any one area. Work in passes, and avoiding zooming in too much (if you're working digitally) early on, or if you're working traditionally, getting really close up to your drawing. Obviously much of this is a matter of self-control - but if you're working digitally, doing so with a larger brush initially can help. As can purposely drawing more with your shoulder through much of the drawing, as this will keep you from getting too much into details and specific linework. But again, to push yourself to do so is a matter of self control. Either way, it'll come with intentional practice, and catching yourself when you make a mistake.

Moving onto your homework submission, your arrows are coming along fairly well, in that they've been drawn with a good sense of movement to them. There are definitely areas where your linework gets tiny bit stiff though, especially where you add line weight. Make sure that you add line weight using the same approach you'd have applied when drawing the original line - that is, drawing with confidence, using the ghosting method. Don't hesitate or attempt to "trace" over the existing line.

Also, don't correct your mistakes as you did in the bottom right there. It's a bad habit, and you should be leaving your mistakes alone. They're more likely to be less noticeable if you don't go back over them.

Moving onto your leaves exercise, the basic leaf structures capture a decent sense of movement to them as well, much as the arrows do - but also like the arrows, the linework is just a tiny bit stiff. It's very minimal, more a matter of mindset than anything else. When you draw the initial flow line of your leaves, it's critical to always focus on the idea that this line defines how your leaf moves through space - that it captures the sense of force, the wind itself and how it flows through the world. It is not just a mark on a flat page - it is a representation of motion.

It appears that aside from the maple leaf, you didn't push any other kind of complex edge detail in these other leaves, which is a bit unfortunate. That's definitely something you should be practicing. Looking at the instructions here, you stopped at step 3, instead of exploring step 4. It's fine to have a significant portion of your leaf constructions stop there, but you should at the very least be exploring more edge detail as demonstrated here.

Now, as for the maple leaf, I am glad you made at least one attempt at more complex leaf structures, but unfortunately you did so incorrectly, and did not follow any of the leaf construction steps as laid out in the lesson. There actually is a demo on how to tackle this specific kind of leaf, and you'll find it here.

Moving onto your branches, this appears to be another case of not really following the instructions. This exercise primarily focuses on learning how to tackle situations where we're faced with more complex edges that we cannot reasonably execute with both confidence and control in a single stroke. So, this exercise shows us how to approach breaking such a stroke into separate segments, getting them to flow into one another creating the impression of a single continuous edge.

The instructions for this exercise are laid out here:

• You seem to have been only drawing a single stroke for each side of the branch.

• You should be drawing through your ellipses.

• The initial central minor axis line of your branches tend to be very stiff, which leaves for a very flat, two dimensional path for the branch itself to follow.

• Instead of following the instructions as stated, you dove into building up branches with different arms coming off a trunk. I do demonstrate this as a more complex challenge here, but you don't appear to have followed that either. Regardless, it's a more complex version of the exercise that should not be pursued if you aren't pinning down the core purpose of the main exercise.

Moving onto your plant constructions, there are a few issues I want to point out briefly:

• Looking at your orchids, the main stem of the plant wasn't constructed using the branch technique, resulting in a lot more complexity to the structure's earlier phases. Construction is all about building things up from simple to complex - by starting with a basic tube form that maintains a consistent width throughout its length and a smooth, continuous silhouette, we establish a base that feels three dimensional and solid. Instead, your silhouette has a lot of little bits of complexity to it, specifically where you integrate other branches, which suggests that you were trying to solve many different problems all at once. In building up from simple to complex, the constructional approach allows us to focus on solving one problem at a time.

• I also noticed that, as I mentioned in your leaves exercise, the flow lines of your petals in your plants appear to be very stiff and rigid, focusing on how they move across the flat page rather than how they represent a sense of movement in 3D space.

• For the flowers here (you've mislabeled them as roses), there are a couple issues. When drawing the silhouette of the leaves (step 2 of the leaf construction method, after establishing the flow line), we want those outer edges to remain as simple as possible, while establishing the basic "footprint" of the petal or leaf. Meaning, you should not be incorporating any of the more complex edge detail here. That gets built on top of this phase in successive steps, as shown here on another student's work.

• Also, remember that the flow line determines the length of your petal or leaf. Don't leave an arbitrary gap between the end of the flow line, and the end of the petal/leaf's tip.

As a whole, I think you may have skimmed the instructions for the lesson briefly, and then pursued what you thought you were being asked to do. As such, you've deviated pretty drastically from what was asked, and while your plant drawings are okay, you appear to be focusing on different priorities than what was asked.

Instead of asking for a limited set of revisions, the nature of your mistakes here are significant enough that I'm going to have you redo the lesson in full. When submitting your homework, do so as a fresh submission (which will cost you another 2 credits), as it will require a full critique. Make sure you follow the instructions of the lesson to the letter.