Starting with your arrows, these are definitely drawn with a great sense of fluidity and confidence, which manifests nicely in your linework. The only issue I want you to work on here is pushing the sense of perspective to emphasize the depth in the scene, both by ensuring that the far end of the arrow gets smaller, and that the gaps between the zigzagging sections compress as we look farther back, as shown here.

Moving onto your leaves, while the confidence from your arrows exercise carries through here nicely and captures how the leaves move through the space they occupy, you're not finished this exercise. Not only is there definitely more room to fill up the page further, but you stopped at step 3 of the exercise, not exploring any more complex edge detail (as shown here) or more complex leaf structures (as shown here).

Continuing onto your branches, there is once again a lot of room in which you could do more of this exercise before the page would be considered full. In the branches you have drawn, there are a few issues to be aware of:

• You're not drawing through your ellipses. As discussed back in lesson 1, you should be drawing through all the ellipses for this course two full times before lifting your pen.

• Your linework definitely has some hesitation to it. While it's minimal, it suggests that you're executing those marks slowly and carefully, rather than with confidence. Every single mark we draw here should be drawn using the ghosting method - meaning we go through the planning and preparation phases before executing the mark confidently, and without any hesitation.

• The instructions for this exercise state that you should be drawing the first segment from one ellipse, past the second and halfway to the third. Then the second segment should start at the second segment, and repeat the same process. You appear not to be doing this - at most extending slightly past the second ellipse, but not fully to the halfway point. As shown here, the resulting overlap is important to achieve a smooth, seamless transition from one mark to the next.

So far, I am definitely not getting the impression that you're putting as much as you should into each each exercise, and appear to be trying to do the bare minimum. That is not showing the kind of patience and fastidiousness that I expect from students at this stage.

Moving onto your plant constructions, your results are definitely somewhat better. You're taking care to draw each form in its entirety, drawing through leaves even when they layer upon one another - this is good, as it allows us to understand how each leaf sits in space, and how they relate to one another, instead of having them cut one another off. There are however some issues I'd like to address:

• In this one, your leaf constructions were fine, establishing the initial base construction, but you appear to have gone back over your lines very slowly and carefully, tracing over them with an extremely hesitant hand. As discussed back in Lesson 2 (specifically with the form intersections exercise), this kind of "clean-up" pass is not appropriate for this course. The biggest issue is that by tracing back over lines like this, we focus entirely on how those lines sit on the page, rather than how they represent edges in 3D space. Every mark we draw - line weight included - should be drawn with confidence, using the ghosting method. Furthermore, line weight should be focused in localized areas to clarify specific overlaps between forms, and should ultimately blend back into the original lines as shown here.

• Another point about that plant is that as I mentioned, you established the first stage of construction, but didn't push beyond that. There's a lot more complexity to the edges of the leaves, where we've got little ripples and waves that aren't reflected in your drawing. I wouldn't say you're doing the bare minimum here, as you clearly attempted to clean things up (an incorrect use of effort but still effort none the less), but your priorities are somewhat mixed up. Remember that every single drawing in this course is an exercise in spatial reasoning. The goal is not to create a pretty picture. It is to explore how we can build up to greater levels of complexity, by building upon previous phases.

• That point is also applicable here where you've put a great deal of effort into drawing the veins on the leaves, but there are two major problems with that: firstly, you drew the flow lines of your leaves to be quite stiff, not capturing the same kind of fluidity as your leaves exercise. Secondly, you did not employ any of the principles from lesson 2's texture section. As explained there, all texture should be captured using implicit drawing techniques - nothing is a simple line, everything is captured as a shadow shape. In order to force yourself to do this, you can make a point of drawing every such textural mark using this two-step process. While making it impossible for you to attempt to represent texture using line, it'll also force you to think about how every shadow is the direct result of some actual textural form that is present on the surface of your object.

Now, there is a lot for you to work on, so I'm going to assign some pages for revision below. Make sure that you put your all into each one. I don't want to be given the impression that you're trying to skirt by with the absolute minimum. I also want to see you applying the principles covered in previous lessons.