Congratulations on making it through lesson 3! This is looking good! Your line confidence varies a bit across the exercises, but I think this will continue to improve as you do 3-5 minute warm ups with ghosted curves and ellipses.
Arrows: Looks like you understand the gist of the exercise, and are able to make these flow in space. When you do them later in warmups, you may want to try for a smoother taper/narrowing of the arrow. It can help to draw dot guidelines on the curves.
Leaves: Most of them have some good flow, although a few look like the leaf on the left ( https://drawabox.com/lesson/3/2/exerciseleaves ). One thing that helped me (and again, you can try this in warmups) is to draw rectangles that bend like leaves, then draw a leaf that matches it. (Sort of like this: https://imgur.com/a/cQ98k6f )
Branches: Your drawing through all your branches, and I can see on your plants you're starting to consider what approximate degree the ellipse might need to be. This will come more naturally as you draw more ellipses in later lessons.
Plants: These are looking great! I can feel the 3D-ness of the palms in page 2, and you chose a nice variety, even getting some solid texture on the corpse flower. The acorn-shaped flower and one next to it were some interesting constructions, which you handled well.
Next Steps:
Add some things into the warm up rotation (not all on the same day) to help with your confident curves. These will continue to be important in lessons 4 and 5, plus the 250 cylinder challenge.
-Frayed lines (both straight and curved) exercise.
-Try drawing several dots on a page, and create a smooth curve that travels through all of them. Remember to ghost!
-Try to achieve more evenly tapered, smooth arrows. Use dots if you need at the turns, so you can see where your line will need to go.
-Bend some more leaves! I see you can do it, but maybe need a little more confidence.
On to lesson 4--bugs!
thanks for the critique, i'll definetly incoporate the advice listed to my warm ups in the future, again, much thanks.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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