Starting with your arrows, these are drawn fairly well, in that they flow nicely and confidently through space. I did notice you got a little sketchier with a couple of them, and started to shift towards a chicken scratchier approach (especially in the bottom left). Definitely something to avoid in the future.

Moving onto your leaves, you're doing a pretty good job of drwing the leaves with a degree of confidence (similarly to your arrows), and adhering to the underlying structure when adding further edge detail and such, but there is definitely an element of looseness in your approach. It's pretty common for students to want desperately to be able to rely on their instincts, and so they'll try to draw a little more loosely, making their drawings a little more raw and spontaneous - but the key thing here is that what we're doing right now is training those instincts. We'll be doing that throughout the entirety of this course, so it's important that when doing so we take our time and do things with a degree of precision (alongside the confidence of our execution).

You're very close to doing it properly - you are sticking to the underlying structure, and you're showing that you understand how things need to be built up. More than anything what I'm asking is just a slight change of course, a change of mindset. A very small tweak, that will yield far greater results in the long run.

Your work on the branches are generally very well done. There are a couple hiccups though - I noticed a tendency in several places to extend your segments just a little past the previous ellipse, instead of fully halfway towards the next ellipse. It's important to extend it this far because it gives your next segment a nice bit of runway to overlap directly before shooting off towards its next target. Also, watch how with the branch along the top of the page, the width tends to pinch and swell - try to avoid this in the future. Maintaining a consistent width will help the form feel more solid.

Looking through your plant constructions, overall I think you're doing pretty well, but there are a couple things holding you back a little. First and foremost, I do think that you're a bit too preoccupied with the details in your drawings, to the point that you may not be as focused on the construction as you draw it. This is quite common, as students have a tendency to think ahead all the time to what they're going to do, and it impedes their ability to focus on what they're doing at the moment. So you've got drawings where there are all kinds of little marks corresponding to superficial detail on leaves and such, but where the leaves themselves don't necessarily flow as fluidly through space as yours did in their dedicated exercise.

Additionally, when looking at the lily, something that I noticed is that you placed ellipses down early to establish how far out the petals would stretch in space, but you didn't end up adhering to them very closely. Every mark we put down in constructional drawing is like an answer to a question - these ellipses answered where these petals would stop. And so, if we don't adhere to that when actually drawing those petals (by drawing our flow lines from the center of that bloom out to the circumference of the ellipse), we end up with contradictions in our drawing. That is, different parts of the drawing asserting different truths about the object itself that cannot both be true simultaneously. This kind of thing can then undermine the illusion we're trying to create - similarly to how when telling a lie, we want to always try and keep our story straight in order to convince the person we're lying to.

Some of your drawings ended up taking up just a small fraction of the space that was available to them - for example, the aloe vera. It's very important that you give yourself ample space to think through the spatial problems involved in construction. If you end up working at a cramped scale, your brain will struggle to figure out the relationships between your forms, and things will get oversimplified and overly rigid.

I do think that in the majority of your plant drawings, you exhibited a fair bit of attention to the specifics involved in each plant - that is, you observed your reference fairly carefully, and the things you drew usually reflected that reference, resulting in drawings that were more believable. I do think however that this slipped somewhat when dealing with the potato plant - likely because there were just so many individual leaves. This is pretty normal, but at the end of the day it all comes down to focusing your attention on each individual part and making a point to keep looking at your reference again and again, never trying to remember too much at any one time.

Lastly, I noticed that the bottom-left leaf on this page broke away from some of the adherence to the underlying structure in the manner explained in these notes.

So! All in all, you do have plenty of room for growth, but I think you are demonstrating a well developing grasp of construction. I think you'll be able to continue improving as you move into the next lesson, so I'll go ahead and mark this one as complete.