Starting with the organic arrows exercise, these are generally moving in the right direction. Some of these are drawn a bit hesitantly so remember to apply the ghosting method, using your entire shoulder before each and every mark you make. Another thing to keep in mind is that these arrows should compress more as it moves away from the viewer as shown in this diagram in order to really capture their existence in three dimensions.

Moving onto your leaves, these are generally looking decent except this one where you didn't follow the leaf construction method directly. When constructing leaves, always start with a base structure. This way, you can build upon it in stages rather than skipping to complex edge details and possibly undermining the solidity. With that said, I would push for more complex leaf patterns to further push the understanding of these exercises.

Continuing onto the branches, the first thing i notice is your branches are too small, which is making it more difficult than it needs to be. While it's true that the stems we draw in the plants are also small, the main purpose of this exercise is to get you to solve spatial problems using the full extent of your shoulder. Drawing small limits us from doing that, making the process clumsier in the end. So try making these a more manageable size in the future.

Another thing that stands out to me is that you're not extending these segments halfway as shown here. I'm seeing instances where you're skipping over entire ellipses as you draw these. In doing so, we risk leaving these ellipses floating arbitrarily, thus unintentionally contradicting the illusion we're trying to create.

Looking through your plant construction, when it comes to the demo plants, you did these really well. You've built up to these in stages, introducing other three dimensional forms. There have been no instances of you working in two dimensions, that is the addition of partial shapes and one off lines. As soon as you started working on your own plants however, I noticed quite a few more slip-ups in your work.

• The first thing comes from how you've started with an initial mass, then decided to cut into that form as shown here. I've highlighted in red enclosing the hatched area. But this hatched are exists only in two dimensions - there is no clearly defining elements that help the viewer to understand how it is meant to relate to the other 3d elements at play. Thus, it reminds us that we're drawing something flat and two dimensional and reinforces that idea to you as you construct it. Instead, you have to think about how you're adding these petals in a way that you're still building over it, without going back on your initial construction and undermining the solidity like this.

• On this pinecone, you threw the constructional concepts out the window, or at least that's what it looks like to me based on the way you've approached this. It seems like you've simply copied the reference directly relying more on observation rather than working on the construction in stages like this. It's not entirely your fault though since the lessons haven't really covered this yet. This is something you'll be doing more of moving forward in lesson 4 onwards. Be sure to give that demo a look.

• Another thing that stands out to me is the way you've approached your textures on these mushrooms you drew. I'm seeing a lot of repeated patterns which suggests that you're relying on memory rather than observing your references directly, which is subject to oversimplification.

• On top of that, the lines are a great deal thicker on the mushrooms which suggests that you might've been cramming these in a small space such as the corner of a page. Don't do that. This goes back to the point I made about your branches.

Overall, while there's a good deal of things to keep in mind, I feel like these are things you can work on your own so I'll be marking as complete so you can continue onto the next lesson.