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4:08 PM, Wednesday July 20th 2022

These are definitely better. I have just one issue to draw to your attention to, just so you keep it in mind going forward.

For the more complex leaf structure in the bottom-middle of the page (the one with the different sub-leaf structures existing within the larger footprint), remember that every stage of construction makes a decision. That outer shape defines the overall footprint the leaf will occupy, and thus when you're drawing the flow line for the subsequent arms, you've already decided how far out they're going to reach - so it's important that you avoid leaving arbitrary gaps between the end of those flow lines and the edge of that initial footprint.

Instead, be sure to draw each flow line so it extends right to the perimeter of that footprint shape. Then, as you've been doing, each smaller leaf shape then ends right where its flow line does. This allows every stage of construction to make a decision, and for the subsequent steps to respect those decisions, rather than contradict them.

Anyway, all in all you are improving. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Move onto lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
4:15 PM, Wednesday July 20th 2022

I undesrtand. I will do my best to keep that in mind for every subsequent construction.

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