Hello I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 3 homework.

-Starting with the arrows section they are drawn with a good deal of confidence which helped you to capture their fluidity with which they move through space, keep in mind that the negative space between the zigzaggin sections of the ribbon has to decrease as it move further away, you can see it exemplified here. Some of your arrows don’t follow that rule, so try to be aware of that in the future.

-This fluidity carries to your leaves pretty well, but I think you went on autopilot when adding those edge details, take some time to look at your references and draw each mark according to the information you can distill from them.

-Moving on to the branches, I think there are a number of things to work on.

• Make sure each segment extends fully halfway to the next ellipse, I can see a number of instances where you clearly fall short.

• Try to use the tail of the previous segment as a runway, and each segment overlapping quite a good bit so that you can achieve smoother transitions, here you can see it more clearly.

• Lastly but equally important be cognizant of the degree shift of each ellipse as well as their alignments to the axis, most of your ellipses look consistent so be aware of that too. You can check the lesson 1 ellipses video ifor a clearer example

With all of those technical issues taken care of let's move to the plant constructions.

-As a minor observation, try to draw a little arrowhead for each of your flow lines, this is a subtle point but it really helps to reinforce the sense of tri dimensionality that we are looking to give each of our constructions.

-Try to be more bold with each of your petals/leaves, and have them twisting and overlapping, this way we can make them look more believable, if you don’t do this then they’ll look like they are being drawn from a top down angle.

-Make wise use of the space available in your page, I can see that you have stuck to one plant per page which is good but there are cases like here and here where you left a lot empty space.

By limiting the space available to you, you are also limiting your ability to draw confident marks and spatial reasoning.

-In this drawing, you did not draw the petals in their entirety. There will be circumstances where, say, a flower has so many petals that they overlap one another. Instead of allowing the petals to cut each other off, draw each and every one in its entirety. These are all just exercises in spatial reasoning, and drawing each form in its entirety will help you better understand how those forms relate to one another in 3D space.

-When drawing any kind of cylindrical structure, like the mushroom here, try to draw the axis to align each of the ellipses, if you don’t do this you will be relying more on eyeballing and guesswork. Remember that we are looking to have each step of the construction very tightly related to each other so that we can carry the solidity of the more simple stages to the more complex.

This also applies to pots, here, you only drew the outline for the pot, try to use the approach you learned in lesson 2, you draw a minor axis, then at each end you draw an ellipse keeping in mind the degree shifts, and then you connect them, or to make it clearer, you could have used the approach you used for the mushroom.

-Finally when working with succulents or any plant that has very thick leaves, try to add contour lines to convey their thickness, and when adding those details try to have them wrapping around the form instead, read the informal demo on how to build upon forms that aren’t flat