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3:19 AM, Tuesday March 1st 2022
Note: You're missing organic arrows in the submission.
Leaves
You did your best in leaves, they're smooth & follow their flow line. You could have done more on it's edges but you can think about this when doing them in your warm ups.
Also don't use hatching lines are anything similar on your drawings in draw a box, for texture on leaves see https://drawabox.com/lesson/3/8/texture
Branches
Sometimes ellipses in your branches are not perpendicular to their minor axis(https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/5/minoraxis).
Also for fork in the branches try to have smooth sphere/ball around those ellipses.
The edges of these branches sometimes leave visible tail, with enough practice you can make them disappear.
Plants
I can see that you've done a lot of work on your plant drawings.
Though I'll honest here, the petals are really stiff, the reason could be their straight flow lines. You can freely apply what you do with leaves to petals, be sure to watch the leaves video(https://youtu.be/hrjD6l-P1IM) again(also see https://drawabox.com/lesson/3/2/flowline).
In second mushroom, the minor axis of those ellipses are not cutting them in half. The contour lines on the bottom part of the top portion of this drawing is sometimes not passing through, don't be afraid to draw through them.
In first pitcher plant, you were supposed to do them like branches(https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/18463269.png) but I see that your strokes stopped when reaching the ellipes.
You're doing good work on keeping the parts of the plant enclosed within it's planned ellipse.
Overall you need to do some work on petals & branches to improve these drawings.
Next Steps:
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1 page of Organic Arrows
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1 page of drawing of petals with flow line(some flowers would help) &
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1 page of thin & few thick branches with ellipses perpendicular to it's minor axis & that minor axis should be dividing the ellipses in equal halves.
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8:50 PM, Sunday March 6th 2022
Hi, Thanks for taking a look at my submission! I actually lost my original organic arrows submission so I submitted it anyways.
I do struggle with the petals.. If I do them too loosely they end up looking like leaves.
Find the redos here: https://imgur.com/a/45DAvu3
3:21 AM, Monday March 7th 2022
Nice work on the revisions. Flow of the petals and the forking branches still need some work, so keep doing them in your warm ups.
These arrows are good for most part except when the closer end in not larger than the further end, it creates this weird depth with the middle part of the arrow being larger, so keep them in mind when doing them, also look into the instructions carefully https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/4/perspective.
Next Steps:
Good work on lesson 3, feel free to start lesson 4. If you can don't count the drawing from the demos towards the 10 insects/archinds, so you can do more of them after practicing with demo. Have fun!
3:57 AM, Monday March 7th 2022
Yea, thanks for the feedback. I just have to keep up mindful practice.
I was looking through some of your work hoping to give critique, but your constructions are really good. So I don't know what else to add, except they are really well done.
Keep up the good work!
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