Hi Raminray 201! I'll be reviewing your homework. Let's see:

Organic Arrows: Your line looks fluid and confident, with some little exceptions. One issue is that almost all of your arrows lack the space compression that gives them the sense of depth that we need. Like this. Avoid being scribbly when you apply hatching, ghost those lines the same way you would ghost any other line.

Leaves: They look really flexible and fluid as well, good job on that. I don't know why you decided to draw them that way, like a flower, but they follow the method, so it doesn't matter. What does matter though, is that you stopped at step 2 for every one of them, you didn't even try to create some edge complexity. We'll come back to that.

Branches: Well done here as well. There are some issues. First, your tails are still visible on the edges of the branch. That's fine though, as precision will eventually come with practice, but keep it in mind. The size in which you are working may be affecting that aspect as well, I had the exact same issue.

The other thing is the degree of your ellipses. You seem to be changing them, and that shows you understand the point of it, but try to be bolder with them, as they are very useful to define how your branches turn and twist in 3D space.

Plant Drawings:

Let's go through them page by page.

On page 1 there's nothing that relevant, except for the ellipses on the main branch of the flower, as they maintain mostly the same degree. At the center of the flower I think you missed a form too, because it looks like the branch suddenly grew petals :P

Compare it with the daisy demo, where we draw a solid form in the middle of the flower. Sometimes there is an inverted cone that supports the petal or some other structures, the point is: try not to skip past some forms that may be present (and may be useful as an exercise). Besides that, there are some inaccuracies on your leaves, but that's not a problem, as you drew them confidently and with a fluid line.

On page 2 there's some stiffness on the leaves. I don't really know if that's because of the type of plant (because a lot of similar plants have stiffer leaves) or if it is a mistake, but keep it in mind.

On page 3 you have more flexible leaves, but you also have a lot of branches with almost no distinguishable ellipses, that's due to the size problem we talked about earlier. There's a bigger problem though: on the flower, besides lacking more distinguishable structures, you tried to extend the flow line from your petals (and didn't even ghost them). You shouldn't do that: as tempting as it is to change them, the lines should stay as you first drew them, mistakes and all. Don't try to extend them so that they can look more like the reference either: all these drawings are supposed to be exercises, not a pretty, perfect replica.

On page 4 you did better, especially when tackling those fruits at the right, but the ellipse problem on the branches persist. You might want to look at these images to see how the ellipses behave in real life.

Page 5, 6 and 7, corresponding to the lesson's demos, look pretty good, save for some wobbly lines on your pitcher plant, and the same leaf extension problem we already mentioned on the potato plant.

On the last page you fell into the detail trap. Your flower lacks the constructional steps on the petals (I can see a flow line, but it's not enclosed, and the edge complexity isn't built around it) , has a lot of inconsistent lineweight (you should apply that only to intersecting parts), and you are drawing form shading instead of cast shadows. Something similar happened to the fruits: while the dots on the fruits themselves are understandable (as those are, sometimes, cast shadows), your texture on the branch is sketchy and not accurate.

I think you did a good job overall, you are understanding the concepts, but you do have some issues, that became most apparent with the last plant drawings. I find that you made a lot of the same mistakes I made when I took on this lesson, so, I'll give you a similar homework to the one I was given.

Let's make it:

• One full page of Leaves, with emphasis on completing the 3 main steps of construction for all of them: flow line, enclosing and edge detail, especially this last one. Give that section a reread as well.

And let's make three more plant drawings. One page each, draw them big.

• One should be of a flower with a long stem, so you can focus on changing the degree of the stem's ellipses, and also draw all the secondary forms you can encounter on them.

• Another should be of a succulent plant or a cactus. I noticed that you didn't tackle any of them, and that will be useful to see how you work with your contour lines and your edge complexity construction.

• And the last one should be of a mushroom, as you didn't work with any of them, with the exception of the demo. Their caps can be a challenge, and they also have some smooth but ever present edge complexity.

One of those can include texture, if you wish. If you don't, that's fine. Try to add the references on your response as well.

And before I leave you, let me remind you that is ok to rest from time to time. Even in the middle of a drawing, you don't have to force yourself to finish them on one sitting. If you have any doubts, you can ask around on Discord or Reddit, there's always a community willing to help. Take your time, and don't feel discouraged, you're on your way. Cheers!