So your work here is a bit of a mixed bag. There's some drawings where you're doing a decent job of employing the principles covered in this lesson and previous ones, and there are others where you're not quite following the instructions or outright forgetting principles we've covered in Lesson 1.

Starting with your arrows, these generally flow fairly well, although I do get the impression that you're hesitating ever so slightly when putting the marks down on the page. Remember that the moment your pen touches the page, you need to commit fully to the stroke and just push it through, hesitation-free. This may impede your accuracy, but it's better for a stroke to be smooth and flow well, than to be accurate. Of course, what I'm saying here is picking at a very, very tiny amount of hesitation. You also improve on this into your second page of arrows.

Moving onto the leaves page, these... are honestly kind of lacking. I'm unsure of why you ended up doing several half-filled pages instead of one filled one, but I suppose that's your call. One thing that I am noticing however is that your leaves here are considerably more hesitant and stiff than your arrows.

Remember that the central flow line's only job is to convey a sense of how that leaf moves through space, how the currents of wind and air push it along. Don't worry about anything but making it fluid and smooth - don't think about the leaf you'll have to draw around it later on.

You're also not really pushing these anywhere beyond their basic shape. I'd like to see you building up more complex edge detail and playing with more complex structures as shown throughout this page.

Moving onto the branches, there are a couple issues I'm noticing:

• Firstly, the degree of your ellipses doesn't appear to change at all. Remember that just like in the organic forms with contour ellipses from Lesson 2, as we slide along the length of a given branch here, the degree of those cross-sections is going to get narrower or wider, similarly to what's shown here.

• It appears that you've handled the overlapping of the individual segments incorrectly. In the instructions, you're asked to draw your segment from the first ellipse, past the second, and halfway to the third. Then your next segment starts at the second ellipse, past the third ellipse, and halfway to the fourth. This gives ample overlap between those segments, allowing them to flow more smoothly together, as shown here. It is very important that you follow the instructions to the letter.

When following along with the demonstrations, you do a pretty good job. The hibiscus for example is well structured, you're adhering to the principles of laying down scaffolding in 3D space and building on top of it. The only issue there is a minor one - your cast shadows tend to adhere too much to the form that casts them (as though it's just really thick line weight), instead of being projected onto the surface beneath.

Your daisy drawing is also similarly well done (though again, I'm seeing issues with your cast shadows where you've even got them being cast into the air - shadows need a surface on which to be cast, you can't just draw random blobs of solid black wherever).

Your potato plant demo has a good start - you're drawing each leaf in its entirety - but you're not remotely finished. I'm not sure how you're determining when a drawing is done or not, but it should not be based on whether or not you're tired. You don't need to finish a drawing in a single sitting - you can take a break, come back to it another day, etc.

When you get into your own drawings, you start to fall away from the principles covered in the lesson. Looking at this one for instance, you're no longer drawing each and every leaf in its entirety (instead letting edges stop where they get overlapped by another form - drawing through your forms is critical to help you understand how those forms sit in 3D space, and how they relate to one another). You're also approaching certain parts - like the flower pot - with sketchier lines, going back over your marks instead of employing the ghosting method consistently throughout. These are all areas where you're breaking away from the things you've been taught, and are slipping back into old habits.

It's not abnormal to do this - a lot of students will get overwhelmed by the complexity of the objects they're trying to draw, and they'll fall back to old habits. When you feel confused or overwhelmed, you don't solve that by just drawing and trying to get through it. You take a step back, you assess the situation and you relate it back to the things you've been taught. You rely on being consciously aware of every mark you put down, on relying on the ghosting method to plan things out before you draw, and so on.

All in all, I could go through each and every drawing and point out issues, but I don't think that's going to help you, as the main pattern is that you're breaking away from the principles covered in the lesson. As such, I'm going to give you an opportunity to give this another shot.

I'm going to ask you to do this lesson over. Usually I'd pick at specific exercises, then have you apply what you've learned to certain drawings, but I think you need to try to approach the lesson in a fundamentally different way. When you submit the work, do so in a new submission (it'll cost you two additional credits), and I will give you a full critique once again.

To accomplish this, I'll point you to some resources to help you solve some of your core issues - for example, how you pace yourself, how you approach each drawing, and how you approach each exercise.

ScyllaStew (her youtube videos are linked under many of the exercises and pages from Lesson 1 and 2) is currently working through Lesson 3 as well. She livestreams all of her drawing sessions, and then posts them to YouTube. Currently the videos aren't up on YouTube yet, but they stay on her twitch channel for 2 weeks. You can see her doing the arrows and leaves exercises there currently, and she'll be moving onto the branches and further this coming week. I recommend you watch the videos to get a sense of how you should be pacing yourself, and how you should be approaching these tasks.

I feel that you aren't necessarily rushing, but that you're approaching the work with something of a cluttered, distracted mind. Watching her go through the work may help you approach the material more mindfully, focusing on each and every mark you draw, as she does.

I know that being asked to redo a lesson can be disheartening, but keep in mind that we're doing this so we can tackle issues that are currently holding you back. Once resolved, you'll be able to push forward once again, and will gain much more from it overall. Drawing is hard - it requires us to fundamentally rewire how our brain works, to develop discipline and patience in areas where there previous was none. Stick with it, and you will succeed.