Hi, I'll be critiquing this lesson! First of all, congratulations on completing the lesson! Anyway, onto the critique :D
Organic Arrows
Your lines are confident and the hatch mark to indicate the drop shadow of the curves are spot on. However, your line weight looked a bit scratchy on the curvature, so I think it's something you could improve on the future :D Other than that, try different angel in the way the arrows are bended, since most of them felt like they are viewed from the top (like the most left one was drawn with an interesting angle).
Leaves
The leaves you draw are very detailed and sharp (literally). Most of the spikes felt like it would hurt to touch just from seeing it. The only feedback I have is with some of the smooth leaves like the one on the bottom right where the curvature felt like it had no impact on the shapes or the construction that the leaves are in 3D. This is in comparison with your other leaves. The texture are beautiful so I think you did a pretty good job.
Branches
I can see some lines are not connected and some of the tubes need to be redrawn with another set of line to make them connect. There ellipses also felt a bit too flat. What I mean flat is that when the ellipses should look a bit wider as they face the viewer and looked thinner as the look away from the viewer. I suggest looking at this guide to help you draw branches next time https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/ellipses
Plants Construction
I was honestly blown away by the overall quality of your plant constructions. Their lines are mostly confident. At first the edge had this zig zag elements and the lines had this shakiness, but by the time you reached the fourth one it was very clear that you are getting the hang out of it. I could see more confident on the way you draw plant 3 compared to plant 1! Don't get me on the texture and how real they feel, especially on the mushroom.
However, seems like you are having a bit of trouble drawing the branches as can be seen in images 4-6, where the branches felt flat in comparison to the rest of the drawing. I'm not quite sure if the changes in between each segment is intentional or not, but it feels like you ditched the suggested methods for a more cleaner looking lines at the cost of the line being confident.
Don't let this bog you down that much, the use of drop shadows and line weight has been super appropriate, especially the mushroom that shown of it's tiny little drop shadow bumps. The roses, one of the hardest plants that I remember tried drawing at free time, also looked beautiful and the amount of lines in there meant that you did a lot of planning. I'm really impressed.
In conclusion, I can see a lot of improvement throughout this lesson and I think you understood the things that these lessons are trying to achieve. I'm gonna ask you redo the one page of branches before moving on, but I think it wouldn't be a big deal with what you have accomplished!
Next Steps:
Please do one more page of branches exercise, remember to shift the size of the ellipses to give the illussion that it is slightly turning just like the ellipses. Other than that, fork more branches since I only seen one fork on the exercise you done. Other than that, you are golden
Hello! Thank you for constructing the critique. Sorry for the wait, I was on vacation so I haven't been drawing much after like a week and came back seeing the critique two days later. I'm having a difficult time varying the ellipse in perspective, as well as me having the heebie-jeebies when submitting a homework(it is still pretty strong). I haven't been doing the warm-ups of Lesson 3, both the branches and leaves pretty much.
Anyways, here is the revision: https://imgur.com/a/5gcLrAG
No worries, I'm not looking for pretty drawing, just you trying out new things. From what I see you did pretty well on this, so I'm going to mark this lesson as complete! Congratulations! You can proceed with the next lesson.
Next Steps:
You can move on to lesson 4!
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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