Before we get started, I did want to mention that it would be a great help if you not separate your work into folders. Generally speaking we prefer submissions on imgur because of the way they're laid out, allowing us to scroll through the album and jump around whilst seeing each image in a large size. We do not disallow other websites, as many students have a variety of reasons of wanting to submit with one over the other, or for not wanting to use imgur, but there are certainly ways in which they can be organized that will facilitate quicker or slower traversal of the album, which in turn requires us to take less or more time to give our feedback.

Starting with your arrows, you've done a great job here of executing each one with confidence, really pushing the sense of fluidity with which they move through the world. This carries over quite well into your leaves, where you're capturing not only how they sit statically in 3D space, but also how they move through the space they occupy.

That said, there are some significant issues in how you've approached the further steps of this exercise - adding edge detail and building up more complex leaf structures - that unfortunately deviate from the purpose of this exercise. It's clear that you've got some skill in drawing already, but there are some points here that you've neglected.

Firstly, as explained here, you should avoid zigzagging your edge detail back and forth across the existing, simpler edge from the previous stage of construction, as this results in a weaker relationship between the different steps, and hinders the solidity from the simpler stages from carrying for ward as we build up more complexity. In general, constructional drawing should not be seen as an approach that involves redrawing the entirety of the object at every stage, but rather one of building up complexity one step at a time, and allowing the previous stages to stand for themselves where they can. For the sake of clarity, you can take a look at this demonstration, which shows how parts from the earlier stages still contribute some parts of the final structure.

Now, there is an aspect of how you've approached your drawings here that has leaned into this mistake - it appears that you put your initial linework down with a lighter, fainter stroke that is distinct enough to suggest that it was drawn with an entirely different pen, then you went back in with darker strokes, effectively establishing two different stages - a rough underdrawing and a darker clean-up pass. This is something we specifically mention as not being an approach we'll use in this course here back in the form intersections exercise from Lesson 2, but more importantly, the instructions for the course as a whole are fairly clear on the fact that all of your drawing should be done with a 0.5mm fineliner, leaving no real room for the thinner pen.

Continuing onto your branches, you're doing okay here, but there are a couple things I want to draw to your attention:

• Firstly, be sure to extend each segment fully halfway to the next ellipse. As shown here in the instructions, the overlap that results from this is an important part of achieving a smoother, more seamless transition from one segment to the next. It also helps to actually overlap that last chunk of the previous segment directly, rather than drawing where the segment ought to have been. This forces us to account for our mistakes, and learn from them.

• Your ellipses could definitely be improved - be sure to execute them using your whole arm from the shoulder, and using the ghosting method to help tighten them up whilst maintaining their confident execution.

Moving onto your plant constructions, overall your work here is pretty well done. The points I've raised already do still hold - especially when it comes to sticking with the same pen (though you are of course welcome to use a brush pen or any kind of thicker pen to fill in shapes that have already been designed and drawn with your usual pen, in the case of cast shadows and such) - but all in all you hold fairly well to the principles of construction here. I have just a couple things to call out:

• On Lesson 3.4.1 (page 3) (I'd link to the image but unfortunately that's one of the downsides to google drive), you appear to have made a stylistic use of solid black as a sort of impromptu background for the drawing. While this is perfectly fine in general, avoid it in this course. Try to reserve your filled areas of solid black only for cast shadows. You may have been confused by something that came up in the potato plant drawing, where we filled in the areas between the leaves with solid black - but this was actually a matter of adding cast shadows, which due to the density of the foliage, filled up the visible portions of the dirt below, between those leaves. In other words, we were able to do it because of the density of the foliage and the camera angle ensuring that there was some surface (the dirt) upon which the shadows could be cast.

• Previously when talking about your leaves exercise, I talked about how important it is to the constructional aspect of the exercise (which is our first introduction to this concept that is used extensively throughout the course), to maintain tight, specific relationships between our phases of construction. For the most part you've done a good job of this in your plant constructions, but there were some places where I felt those relationships were, while still fairly tight, perhaps not receiving the full benefit of your attention. If we look at your daisy demo drawing (Lesson 3.4.1 (page 1)) , the tips of those petals tend to get kind of loose, resulting in little gaps and overshoots when it comes to the relationships between the end of each flow line, and the end of each petal. They're small, but they are certainly the result of you not paying as much attention to this area as you should, and I am fully convinced that had you considered them just a little bit more, you would have nailed them near perfectly. But, these kinds of little things can cause a lot of problems, because they remind the viewer (and ourselves as we work through the construction) that what we're looking at is not a solid, three dimensional structure - but rather, a series of lines on a flat piece of paper.

And that about covers it. Overall, I do feel that your work here could have been better, especially in the earlier sections, but I did feel that your plant constructions did enough to suggest that you'd be capable of addressing those issues on your own, without needing further revisions. So, I'll leave you to it, and will mark this lesson as complete.