Hello Brainducker, thank you for getting back to me with your revisions.

Your leaves and branches are generally looking much better than your original attempts, I'm glad to see yhat you're employing the complex leaf construction more closely as well as the instructions for branches, but there are two things I'd like to point out.

For your leaves you're still falling into the trap of zigzagging your edge detail, each piece of edge detail should be captured separately, after you capture this form your stroke must come down and integrate into the outer edge before you start another mark. For your complex leaf structure you have also cut back into your initial construction, when your edge detail should be build up additively. You can see what I mean more clearly here.

For your branches there are two things to mention - first your minor axis lines are being drawn lighter than the rest of the construction, but they should be drawn with the same line thickness, you must also not forget to establish an ellipse first before drawing your new branch's arm, as explained here.

When it comes to your plant constructions they are looking more solid, but there are a couple of things that hurt their solidity still.

For example in your Venus Fly Trap construction you did not fully construct your plant pot, which is a mistake. If a form is visible then it must be constructed fully. Another mistake that hurts this structure is that most of your branches only have two ellipses, one at the start of the branch, and one at the end, this causes you to draw long stretches and draw your edges in a single stroke which is a mistake. Remember that the reason we break down our branches into several parts is so that we can control our marks better and create a more solid and specific construction as a result.

I've noticed that you had some questions that you've added to your pumpkin page, when you face some troubles or have a question I'd recommend to add those comments and questions to the comment box when you submit your homework instead of adding it to your page.

In this case I believe making use of the complex leaf construction method is the best approach, while this leaf can also be tackled by constructing the extra masses as edge detail, the complex leaf construction method allows you to create a tighter and more specific construction. Although your construction is left messy because you start to undermine the original construction because you do not respect the marks you've initially put down, you cut back into your construction and zigzag your edge detail, which leaves the structure feeling a bit flat and less specific than it could be.

You are correct that in part the troubles you faced with your mushroom construction are caused by the lack of a minor axis, but there are other issues that cause the construction to be less tight than it could be.

There are gaps in between your forms and the relationships between those forms is not clearly defined, which is what flattens the construction. The cap is also not fully constructed, it's an ellipse but it doesn't convey any sense of form because it's unclear where this form attaches to and where it ends, amanita mushroom's caps are also rarely completely cylindrical, as the underneath of the cap goes in because of the gills of the mushroom. While you draw these gills because the edge of the mushroom cap isn't established the construction is unclear.

In here you'll find a demonstration that I've put together that points out your shortcomings and a different way the same structure could be approached.

You should also draw your ellipses bigger, as you're not always drawing them at a comfortable size which allows you to draw through them twice.

Lastly I would like to reinforce that you should not make any kind of underdrawing or deviate from the tools we use in this course, do not make use of pencil during these exercises, if you are unsure of a mark you can make use of dots and the ghosting method

You're starting to move in the right direction, but you can still improve at a couple of important points by following the instructions a bit more closely, while your leaves are looking much better you're struggling when it comes to less traditional looking plant structures such as mushrooms. Due to the unorthodox shapes that mushroom come in they're much closer to the construction techniques that you'll encounter when approaching insects and animals in the following lessons.

I heavily recommend that if you haven't, that you check out all of the demos for this lesson and if possible attempt then on your own, after you're finished please reply with:

1 page, half of leaves, half of branches.

2 plant construction pages. I'd like for one of them to be your attempt at the King Oyster Mushroom demo, make sure to follow it closely, the other page should be an original construction.