Hello I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 3 homework

-Starting with the arrows section, they are confidently drawn which helped to capture the fluidity with which they move through space, you have nailed the foreshortening and the gaps between the zigzaggin section of the ribbon decrease as it moves further away, your applications of lineweight are well done too.

-This fluidity carries over very nicely to your leaves, I’d suggest you try more complex leaf structures like the maple leaf shown here.

-Your branches are looking good, you made sure that your segment extended fully halfway to the next ellipse, and they are overlapping nicely, there are some visible ends though, so keep aiming to achieve smoother transitions. I think you are aware of the degree shifts but keep working on this regard as some of your ellipses look consistent. It is a subtle point but you want to make sure to avoid any little inconsistencies to maintain the illusion of 3D.

Let’s move on to the plant constructions

-Looking at this flower, make sure that each petal ends right where the flow line ends, you want to maintain a very tight and specific relationship between each step of the construction, do not leave any arbitrary gaps or empty space between the supporting structure and the more complex details

-Now taking a look at this drawing and this one, when drawing any cylindrical structure or any structure that relies on ellipses, make sure you align them with a minor axis, while your plants are looking solid, you want to specify what is the relationship between each ellipse, do not rely on any guesswork or eyeballing always aim to set up a preceding structure for every detail.

-Make sure that you give your drawing as much space as possible I can see that you stuck to one plant per page which is good, but there is plenty of blank space that you could have used, this a point that you want to take into consideration for next lessons, drawing bigger will help you when tackling these exercises in spatial reasoning and it will also help you to draw with your whole arm.

-And now I want to address the textures. You have done well focusing mostly on cast shadows but keep in mind that these will always be cast on another surface, here I think you slipped into form shading which, as explained in lesson 2 is not something we'll be using. The cast shadow has to fall only on the bigger cactus surface.

So that is all I have to say for now, while there are a few mistakes, I think they are just a matter of approach and I’m sure you will improve with practice, so you can head onto the next lesson.