Hello Parker7302, I'm ThatOneMushroomGuy and I'll be the TA handling your critique today.

Arrows

You're doing well in this exercise, your arrows are consistent in their size and by keeping your linework confident you give them a good flow as they move through the page, but remember the mark making concepts introduced in Lesson 1, as in here and in here your lines aren't drawn in a single confident and consistent stroke with the ghosting method.

Your shading is also correctly placed, with the exception of here, where you accidentally add it to both sides. Your shading should also be given the same amount of effort as the rest of your exercise, yours is already looking confident with nice and tidy lines, but it's not done with the ghosting method.

You should also remember the last step to your arrow's construction, which is to add lineweight on top of the overlaps to reinforce them.

Leaves

The sense of fluidity your arrows have carries over quite nicely into your page of leaves, they have good energy as they bend and flow naturally in the page.

You're also working very well on your edge detail, although it is a little bit on the smaller side.

The only thing to mention about the construction of your leaves is that in this leaf, you redraw one of your outer edge lines, remember to always commit to your lines when going through the course, if your initial line doesn't look good, just accept it and move on instead of trying to redo it.

You also do well on your application of texture to your leaves.

Branches

You're doing well by following the instructions for this exercise, but while I can see your extension lines they don't always extend to the halfway point of the next ellipse, either ending before or not being extended at all.

Another thing I've noticed is that such as in here sometimes you don't start your next segment at the ellipse mark, instead starting it a little bit forward, so be careful when starting any new lines.

There are visible tails in many of your compound strokes, but this is a very common mistake so don't worry too much about it, to try to improve regardless you should superimpose your new line on top of the previous one, even if it diverges clearly from the intended path.

You're also drawing through your ellipses twice, good job.

Plant Construction Section

You're applying the concepts taught in this lesson very effectively and doing a great job of making your constructions feel tridimensional, you're also doing very well by drawing through all of your forms.

This page is looking particularly well executed as you apply both the leaf and the branch construction methods to great effect. The only problem with it is that you forget to construct one of the stems with the branch method, a mistake that's also present in this page but with several of stems, you should also remember to always cap off the ends of your branches or stems.

This is one of your weaker pages, as you don't construct the top part of the flower with the branch construction method, and you add too much lineweight to this part. You're also cutting back into your initial construction, while for leaves this isn't a huge problem as leaves ( and petals ) are flat objects, but try to remember to always work additionally as working subtractively undermines the initial construction and flattens your drawing.

Also remember that lineweight should only be added to key areas of detail such as overlaps, not to the entire construction, as here you're adding way too much lineweight, which comes across as trying to clean up your original construction.

Remember that the purpose of these exercises is to develop our spatial reasoning skills through the use of drills. We're not looking to make nice looking drawings.

• Many of your pages have empty spaces that could have been better used by drawing much bigger than you have, such as drawing bigger in this [page] would have been much more beneficial to your improvement as it would allow you not only more room to work through the spatial reasonings that arise when tackling these exercises, but also give you enough space to fully engage your whole arm.

• Your textures are looking quite nice, but sometimes you fall back on the habit of drawing them explicitly.

• Also try not to fill in large areas of black in your drawings such as in here as it obscures the underlying construction, making it hard to evaluate your homework assignment. It also doesn't follow the principles of texture introduced in lesson 2. Texture in Drawabox is based on cast shadows, large areas of black like this break the concepts of drawing implicitly, here are some useful reminders on texture and how it should be used in Drawabox exercises.

Final Thoughts

You've done very well in this lesson, you're applying the methods correctly for the most part and while there are things that can be improved, you've shown a great deal of understanding of the concepts that this lesson seeks to teach already.

I believe you're ready for the next lesson, don't forget to add these exercises to your warm up list and apply the feedback to your future work.

I'm going to be marking your homework as complete. Good luck on Lesson 4.