Starting with your arrows, you're doing a great job of drawing these with a great deal of confidence, which really helps to push the sense of fluidity with which they move through the world. Generally this carries over fairly well into your leaves' initial structures, where you're capturing not only how they sit statically in 3D space, but also how they move through the space they occupy from moment to moment.

When it comes to the later stages of this exercise - edge detail and more complex structures, you are generally doing quite well. I have just two concerns to call out:

• Firstly, I know there are times where you'll be tempted to draw many elements of edge detail with a single continuous stroke. Even if you're confident in your ability to maintain a tight relationship with the existing structure's edge, I still would urge you not to overextend yourself. Draw each bump with a separate mark, rising off and returning to the existing structure, and avoid zigzagging a single mark as seen here, which as you should remember, does break this principle of markmaking from Lesson 1.

• Secondly, this one is really just an observation of a choice you made in one case and nowhere else - this leaf in your upper left corner appears to exist in two distinct states simultaneously. There's the fact that you've drawn it as a more basic leaf with edge detail, and the fact that you've also constructed inside of that structure a more complex leaf structure. I'm not really sure how these are both supposed to exist together at the same time. Stick to one or the other.

One last point before moving on - remember that texture does not involve defining lines or outlines, but rather shadow shapes. So, you should not be falling to outlining your leaves' veins, but rather considering the shadows they cast on their surroundings. You can see an example of this on the diagram for the leaf exercise, although I would also recommend you review these notes from Lesson 2.

Carrying onto your branches exercise, it seems that for the most part you're applying the technique - that is, which focuses on how the edge segments overlap one another - fairly well. At least, that's how it appears - I'm not seeing very many signs that the overlap between them is being minimized, so you're able to transition fairly smoothly from one segment to the next as intended That said, do remember that you want the degree of your ellipses to shift wider/narrower as we slide along the length of the branch, as noted in Lesson 1's ellipses video - that is, as opposed to maintaining the same degree throughout the length, it should get wider as we move farther away.

Continuing onto your plant constructions, I do have some points to call out:

• There are a lot of cases where, when faced with many overlapping structures (like petals on a flower), that you only draw each petal insofar as it is visible, cutting it off when overlapped. You'll note that this is not how I approach it in my demonstrations. Instead, I specifically draw each structure in its entirety, as this helps us to better understand how they all sit in 3D space, and how they relate to one another within it. This goes as far as drawing through the object where it connects to the flower's center.

• There are also a couple cases where you jump into more complexity than can be supported by the existing structure, without laying down intermediary steps. A fairly benign case of this can be seen here (that heart-shaped cut should be added later, starting the petal out without it), while a more significant case can be seen here with the jaggedy-edge protrusion coming from the base funnel up along the narrower cylindrical structure.

• When you follow along with a demonstration, be sure to follow along with all of it. I noticed that with the potato plant demo, you left a great deal behind.

Now, overall I think you're doing pretty well, so I am going to mark this lesson as complete. Do however keep in mind the points that I've raised - especially the importance of drawing through your forms, as it's going to play a significant role throughout this course.