Starting with your arrows, these are generally coming along quite well. You're drawing them with a great deal of confidence, which helps to capture how they move fluidly through the world. This carries over quite nicely into your leaves, where you're not only capturing how they're sitting statically in space, but also how they move through the space they occupy. You're generally handling the addition of complex edge detail pretty well too, but there are a couple things I want you to avoid:

• Zigzagging edge detail back and forth across the existing edge, which we see here (although that was the only instance in the exercise).

• Capturing more complex detail than is supported by the existing structure, as shown here. This instead should be constructed in successive stages, as shown with the colour-coded lines I marked out there.

• Remember that complex leaf structures still start out with an overall leaf shape, as shown here, to establish the overall footprint of the structure.

Continuing onto your branches, these are well done. You're mindful of the extensions of each segment, allowing for ample overlap between them to achieve smoother, more seamless transitions, and are otherwise maintaining consistent widths for your branches. One recommendation I do have however is to try and use the last chunk of the previous segment as a 'runway', overlapping it more directly as shown here instead of drawing the next segment where the previous one ought ot have been. This will make things a little more difficult, but will also make the exercise a little more effective.

Moving onto your plant constructions, by and large you've done a great job here. There are however a few quick points I want to call out:

• Be sure to draw through all of your ellipses two full times, as discussed back in Lesson 1. I noticed that you tended to forget this when constructing the branch/stem structures of your plants.

• When you have forms overlapping one another - for example, leaves or petals that are clustered together - be sure to draw each one in its entirety, and avoid having them cut off where they're overlapped by others. This in turn helps us to better understand how each form sits in 3D space, and how they relate to those around them, whereas only drawing the visible portion would cause us to focus more on the 2D aspects of the reference. So for example, for these petals, not only would you draw the last ones like this all the way through, you'd also draw the portion of each petal/leaf that interpenetrates the central mass, as this would give you a clearer sense of how it intersects with and relates to that structure in 3D space.

• Remember that every step of construction must bear tight, specific relationships to the steps preceding it. So for example, when we draw a flower and opt to start out with an ellipse (as shown in the hibiscus demo), that ellipse serves a specific purpose, to define the perimeter to which each petal will extend out from the center. This means that each flow line must stop specifically at the edge of that ellipse, and in turn each petal should then stop at the tip of its corresponding flow line. For the flowers on this page, you tend to leave more arbitrary gaps between these different steps of construction.

That about covers it! I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.