Starting with your arrows, these are doing a great job of flowing smoothly and confidently through space. Just two things to keep in mind:

• Compress the gaps between the zigzagging sections as we look farther back as shown here to better demonstrate the depth in the scene.

• Your hatching is a little sloppy at times - just take a little more care in ensuring that each stroke stretches across the ribbon from edge to edge.

Moving onto your leaves, you've carried over that sense of confidence and fluidity wonderfully throughout these leaf forms, capturing how they not only sit in space, but also how they move through space. That said, your work on this exercise is not actually finished in any real fashion. Looking at the steps for this exercise, you stopped at step 2. You should have definitely been moving at least into step 3, exploring the addition of more complex edge details to those structures, employing constructional drawing to build such edge details up on top of your existing structure. That is definitely something I'm going to want you to push further on.

Moving onto your branches, one key issue I noticed here is that you don't appear to be extending your segments fully halfway to the next ellipse. As a result, you miss out on one of the core aspects of this exercise, which is about using the structured overlap between segments to transition more smoothly and seamlessly from one to the next as explained here in the instructions. That said, you did achieve a decent transition between segments regardless, but there were areas where this would have helped improve your results. And regardless, following the instructions to the letter is quite important.

Continuing onto your plant constructions, your work here is largely fairly well done, with a few key issues. Before I get to them though, I do want to point out that I'm extremely happy to see that the fluidity of your leaves and petals carries over throughout all of these, and that you're putting a great deal of focus on how those initial flow lines direct the construction that follows.

I'll list the main issues I'm seeing in bullet form below:

• Looking here at how you've built up the wavier edge detail around the more basic edge you established in the previous phase of construction, you're running into the issue explained here. That is, you're zigzagging a new edge back and forth across that old one, replacing it, rather than building up individual 'bumps' one at a time that come off the earlier edge and return to it. The key is not to replace one phase of construction with another, adding more complexity each time, but rather to build upon the existing structure and adding only what changes.

• Looking at these mushrooms, somewhat related to the previous point, I'm noticing that you're working somewhat in a sort of underdrawing/clean-up pass approach here that was pointed out as a mistake back in Lesson 2's form intersections. The key issue is that once you had the ellipses in place (which were purposely drawn to be faint, as though they were something that could be ignored), you then traced back over the ones you wanted to keep with a more hesitant, wobbly line. Instead, every phase of construction should stand on its own, and if it already establishes the structure that will exist as part of your "final" construction (if you want to call it that), then it should not be redrawn or replaced. Tracing back over old lines is particularly dangerous because it causes us to focus too much on how those lines sit on the page itself, rather than how they represent edges that move through 3D space. Approaching it in this way (a lighter underdrawing, that is) can also encourage you to be more loose and less thoughtful when drawing those initial marks, instead of applying the ghosting method and exhibiting the appropriate patience throughout the entire process.

Now, all in all your work is coming along well, but I do want to see that page of leaves redone properly, so I'll wait on that before marking this lesson as complete.