Hi Sylx, Im gonna go over your submission.

Starting out by your organic arrows, there is a lot of mix of line quality on this exercise, see for example these two different arrows and how the main lines that show the fluidity are. The first one is moving through 3d space with a continuous flowing line, while on the second one it seems like you´ve stopped your lines at the turns and started them again. By doing this last thing, you are not only undermining all the confidence on that arrow by breaking it up on sections, you are also taking all fluidity from it, which was the main point of that exercise. Now, as I´ve said, there is a mix here, sometimes you did like the first, and sometimes like the second one. Also, seeing your line weight it seems like in some cases like you´ve added it in a really slow and woobbly manner, remember to always prioritize confidence over accuracy in all your lines- you need confident and solid lines, to create confident and solid constructions.

Moving on to your leaves, it seems like you picked up on your mistakes and did a good job making them flow throguh 3d space, while it seems like you are overall constructing on top on them, it looks like you are applying a clean up pass on top of them with thicker line weight, dont do this- Line weight is a very localized tool that we use to clarify how certain forms interact with each other in specific areas, by doing a line weight pass through all the silhouette of your constructions, you are undermining the effective use of the line weight itself. You are now drawing and working wtih 3d forms and constructions, and the silhouette is just a 2d representation of those 3d forms, if you just highlight it, you are breaking the relation between the form and the shape, which ultimately breaks the illusion we are trying to create. You will discover that the silhouette is a very dangerous part of our constructions, so dont take it lightly when drawing.

On to your branches, I can see that you are varying your ellipses, which is great, but dont be so shy about it! Try to experiment with them a little more, you will noticethat its very unusual that degrees change so slightly, specially on long branches, talking about ellipses, remember that whenever you are drawing them, just go through them twice, more than this and it will start to make everythin messy. It seems like you started with some wobbly lines and struggling with the exercise, but at the end ones you are doing a much better job!

Now, your constructions are looks pretty solid overall, though there are things that I want to call your attention on so you can keep on the right track. Also, I´ve seen that you talk a lot about doing too thick or big branches or leaves on your self critique, but remember that proportions are not the main thing here, even more than that, its probably the last thing we care- We are doing this exercises to create 3d, solid and believable structures and constructions!

• First up, on your second plant you are saying that a better way to improve the way you represent the roundness of the plant would be to break the silhouette more, while this could be an option, a safer option for this could be to just try to change the form of the leave you are drawing on to a more rounded one. Remember that while the process is the same (first a flow line and then two lines that compose the flat but 3d form of the leave), you dont have to draw the leaves the same, you can do them more rounded, thinner or even pointier, if you compare the leaves you draw for your third and fourth construction, there is a big difference between how you draw those leaves, and you did them with the same method.

• On your 5th plant you are going over the construction with a more thicker line, and doing like a clean up pass that we´ve talked about. I forgot to mention before that another issue of going for a more lighter tone on your first forms and trying to draw over them later is that it goes against what we are trying to work here, that is constructing additively- We start by drawing basic solid forms, and then we ramp up the complexity by introducing new solid and 3d forms that build on top of those constructions and always respect them.

• Talking a little about texture, I like how you improved on it on your big mushroom, though be carefull with how you applied that line weight (clean up pass) and also, keep a close and careful eye on how you affect the silhouette, you did a good job there, but remember to never cut into it!

• One last thing, whenever you are constructing anything here in this course, take the object you are working on and think of it as completely white, dont try to represent local colors with black, save that for cast shadows and texture. Talking of which, this is a demo on how to apply texture on a similar mushroom.

So, aside from all this, your work is going on the right path, remember to take all this into account and I will go ahead and mark this lesson as completed! Keep up the good work.