Hello Chocobouw, I'm ThatOneMushroomGuy and I'll be the TA handling your critique today.

Arrows

Starting with your arrows your lines are confidently drawn for the most part, with only a couple signs of hesitation visible, this confidence helps push the feeling of fluidity these objects posses as they move through the world. You're also making good use of the depth of the page with the foreshortening of your arrows.

Something you should keep in mind is the placement of your hatching, there are a couple of places where you've added it to the incorrect side of the arrow segment which contradicts the illusion of depth you wish to create.

• Due to how perspective works, objects which are closer to the viewer will appear bigger, and smaller as they're further away. Following this logic, the size of an object of consistent size that's moving across the world must gradually change according to the perspective of the scene. As such, the bigger part of the arrow is always going to be the one closest to the viewer, therefore the smaller part of the segment should be the one that gets the hatching applied to it.

For the application of your hatching remember that as explained back in Lesson 1 all our lines must be executed with the ghosting method, as such make sure that all your lines have a clear start and end point, in the case of arrows this means your hatching should run from one end of the arrow's width to the other, and not end at arbitrary places.

Other than these points, don't forget to always make use of added lineweight on top of arrow overlaps in order to reinforce their depth.

Leaves

Moving on to your leaves the fluidity you had present in your arrows is translating nicely into these new structures. You're not only capturing how these structures sit statically in space but also how they move across the world from moment to moment, although I heavily recommend that when tackling this exercise again that you focus more on overlapping leaves and leaf structures which are folding, as these kinds of leaf structures will help push your spatial reasoning skills further than leaves which are being looked at straight on.

Your application of edge detail is very well executed as you're generally building it up gradually and not trying to capture more than one piece of edge detail at a time.

Branches

Continuing on to your branches they're coming along pretty well as you're generally following the instructions for the exercise, it's really good to see that you're extending your lines, although there are some cases where you extended your line for longer than it should have been extended.

Remember how branches should be approached, by having your segment start at the first ellipse, extending it past the second ellipse and extending it fully to the halfway point to the third ellipse, afterwards you'll start a new segment, making sure to place your pen at the second ellipse and repeat the pattern until your branch is complete.

You have visible tails in your compound strokes but this isn't too much of a problem, keep practicing this exercise and your accuracy will naturally improve.

For your ellipses it's also great to see that you're often drawing through them and varying the ellipse degree shift across your branch's lenght as this helps give more solidity to the form.

Overall your work here is pretty good.

Plant Construction Section

Moving onto your plant constructions you're moving in the right direction by applying the concepts and techniques introduced previously, this is all helping you develop your sense of spatial reasoning and draw solid, believable structures.

There are of course, always things to improve, so here are the points I believe you should work on so you can keep improving your skills.

When constructing any kind of cylindrical structure, such as mushrooms and flower pots add a minor axis in order to keep your several ellipses aligned.

Speaking of flower pots construct them fully, it's good to see that you're making use of an inner ellipse in order to communicate the thickness of the pot, but we can go ever further in order to fully construct the rim that's found in most types of flower pots.

Something you should keep in mind is the fact that you're often outlining entire forms in your construction, Drawing over later parts of construction in this manner can encourage us to think of Drawabox as sketching, where the refinement that comes later on is more important than the first marks which act only as general guides, but Drawabox is not sketching.

These exercises have the explicit purpose of teaching you how to think in 3d and an important part of that is to make sure all of the forms you draw have solid relationships to the other forms in the scene and have the same amount of importance by being drawn in roughly the same line thickness.

We can make use of added lineweight towards the end of a construction, in order to clarify overlaps.

Remember that the methods introduced in the lesson build on top of one another, as such you should always make use of each of them and never skip construction steps in any of your plants, which you end up doing for some of your work by not drawing stemming branches with the forking branches construction method.

Edge detail should be built up additively whenever possible instead of cutting back into the forms previously established by earlier stages of construction.

You're undermining some of your marks and their decisions by establishing more than one flow line for some of your leaf's flow line. Speaking of leaf structures it's very clear that you understand how they should twist and fold in space, but most of your plant's leaf structures seem static and don't have any kind of folds or bends applied to them, which feels a bit unnatural. Make sure that you're always thinking of how your objects exist in a real, tridimensiional space, not only how their silhouette looks but how the entire object works.

Final Thoughts

I believe you've shown yourself to understand the concepts shown here and be capable of applying them to your work adequately. Most of your work is solid and turning out well, although you're encountering some problems along the way as you don't always apply the instructions as carefully as they could be applied or miss some small concepts. I'm going to be marking this submission as complete.

Don't forget to keep practicing these exercises during your warm ups. Move on to Lesson 4 and good luck.