Hello! First of all, congrats for finishing the lesson. This lesson is our first introduction to construction, which aims to give our drawing subjects solidity and place them in 3D space.

Starting with your arrows, remember to always be mindful when putting down a mark. This includes hatching. Also, while most of the time you are placing the hatching in the correct place, there’s an instance in which that doesn’t happen. Remember to always think about how the arrows flows in 3D space.

Good job on your leaves. Remember to always respect the footprint your established. In one of them (upper corner left) you cut through your footprint. Remember that it is very important to think about how this line moves through three dimensions, not across a flat page, and to really drive home how it flows. Also, you zigzagged the edge details of many of your leaves. This is a mistake Uncomfortable directly addresses on the instructions. Remember to always be very mindful when doing these exercises. Rushing is not encouraged.

For the branches exercises, remember you should be using compound strokes and overshooting the second ellipse, trying to follow the path towards the third one and stopping fully halfway there. It doesn’t seem like you were doing that (at least to what I can see from the exercise). Also you are leaving some of your tubes open ended. This is discouraged on the instructions. Regarding your lines, please keep in mind the principles we saw on lesson 1. All lines must be done with the ghosting method. Regarding the degrees of your ellipses, they are something we must keep in mind when doing the branches exercise. The degree of the ellipse will vary depending on the viewers eye level and the position of the ellipse in 3D. You don’t respect the boundaries established by the ellipse for your branches, something that comes up on your plant constructions.

Moving onto your plant constructions, they present the issues I mentioned before. I see you used some contour lines for some of your forms. This is very good! I encourage you to add the necessary contour lines to make your forms feel 3D. On the corpse flower, you could have added some contour lines to help the illusion of 3D space. Something I notice is that you seem to cut onto the forms you establish or leave forms floating. Remember you should be thinking about how your forms connect with each other and interact.

Overall, you are on the right track, but I would like to leave some revisions so you can work on the feedback I gave you. Work slowly and mindfully. Also do one plant construction per page and give it enough space. Well done!