Starting with your arrows, you've drawn these such that they flow quite nicely through space with a strong sense of movement and fluidity. This carries over into your leaves as well, which twist and turn in a way that captures not only how each leaf sits in space, but also how it moves through it. That said, it is a little unfortunate that you left them only at these simple states - you clearly have the basic movement down, but exploring more complex edge detail and more complex structural arrangements (like this one) would have been worthwhile.

I do see some examples of this throughout your plant constructions however, so instead of leaving it for later in the critique I'm going to jump to some of them now. Looking at this plant, one thing that stands out to me is that you zigzagged those jagged edges back and forth. As explained here, the edge details we add should be bound tightly to the edge from the previous construction. Taking this further, don't treat the constructional process as though we're redrawing entire chunks of things with each step. Instead, we are building upon what we've already put down, drawing only the parts that change as shown here.

So while this one is definitely better in terms of the first point in at least several of these leaves (you still zigzag down the center one), you're still redrawing the entirety of that leaf from one step to the next. Drawing each little jagged spike separately is preferable.

Moving onto this one, here you're running into the mistake of skipping constructional steps. Starting with a series of different flow lines is correct, but you should be avoiding drawing any shapes/forms that are themselves more complex than absolutely necessary. Here you avoided additional constructional lines/phases, but in doing so drew a very complex shape. This forced you to figure out how all these different "arms" were going to move through space together, rather than tackling one at a time. That's what construction's about - tackling things one step at a time, and committing our cognitive capacity to one task, doing it as well as possible, and moving onto the next. Decisions are made one step at a time, and like when we adhere to the previous phase rather than redrawing entire lines, we abide by the decisions made by those earlier marks rather than defining them over again.

Continuing on, your branches are looking pretty good, except for one main issue - you're not extending your segments fully halfway to the next ellipse, which limits the amount of overlap we get between them. This overlap is critically important, because it allows us to move from one segment to the next smoothly and seamlessly, without a break in flow as shown here.

Back to your plant constructions, There is a lot of good here. While I picked on the one plant where you noticeably skipped steps in your construction, this actually isn't something you did particularly often. While you didn't really delve much into any kind of detail or texture, you are building things up quite well, and focusing on relatively simple points one at a time. I have just a few things to point out before calling this critique done:

• Draw through all of your ellipses, just like we did back in lesson 1. Two full times around the shape before lifting your pen to keep them even and smooth.

• Construct anything cylindrical around a central minor axis line to help keep those ellipses aligned.

• Flower pots are rarely ever just two connected ellipses - they have thickness and rims at their opening, and that's going to mean insetting another ellipse at the very least into the top one. As a whole, construction is not about oversimplification - we start simple, but we build up that complexity in successive phases. So this drawing is arguably incomplete.

• This wasn't an issue here, but it may be in the future - don't force yourself to draw small if you feel giving yourself more room will help you explore a drawing further. Since you're drawing many drawings to a page, this is particularly important to point out. While making the full use of the page is excellent, ensuring that each drawing is given as much room as it requires helps immensely because it gives our brains the room to think through spatial problems, and also makes it easier to engage our whole arm while drawing. Again - not an issue here, but could be one moving forward so keep it in mind.

I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.