Hello Aturia, I'm ThatOneMushroomGuy and I'll be the TA handling your critique today.

Arrows

Your lighter arrows are generally looking smooth, with only a couple of wobbles here and there, so remember to engage your whole arm with the ghosting method. Also keep in mind that you shouldn't draw lighter and then retrace the entire arrow with a darker pen.

By adding this extra lineweight on top of the entire arrow you lose the original confidence that your arrows had, making them stiff. Remember that lineweight should be added only to the overlaps not the entire length of the arrow.

You're starting to grasp the concepts that this exercise seeks to teach as you generally have good overlaps to your arrows, although with some size consistency problems. What you struggle with the most is the orientation of the overlaps and the perspective of your arrows.

Due to the way perspective works, objects of the same size will appear bigger when closer to the viewer and smaller when further away. The way this affects an object of consistent size that stretches across space is that segments will get smaller as they move away from the viewer. The way you shade your arrows, such as this one makes it seem like your arrows are getting exponentially bigger as they move away from the viewer, this breaks the perspective.

Instead, this arrow should have been shaded this way. Remember that since the bigger side is the side closest to the viewer, this will be the side that's in front and therefore the one behind it should be hatched instead. Here's another demo from a different student's homework to explain this concept visually.

Onto your hatching, remember that it should be done with the ghosting method, from one end of the arrow to the other, and not stop at arbitrary places.

Leaves

I've noticed that you're having trouble visualizing how your leaves sit in space and applying the concepts introduced in the arrows exercise to your leaves. You're also not completely applying the leaf construction method, for example in this middle left leaf you didn't completely draw your outer edges and in this leaf as well.

Here is a quick demonstration of how these leafs can be approached instead.

Your edge detail is alright, as you're drawing them with small strokes, but do remember to approach this next step of construction additionally, as with all others in drawabox. For leaves this isn't too much of a problem as they're already flat objects, but with other objects we tackle in the course, cutting back into your original construction will flatten the form, this is actually something that I've noticed in your work and will be addressed later.

Branches

The lines for your branches are looking very confident and smooth, but you're not fully extending your lines and then restarting at the ellipse mark.

Remember the steps to how branches should be approached: by starting a segment at the first ellipse, continuing past the second, and stopping halfway to the third. Upon finishing, you'll start the next segment by putting your pen at the second ellipse mark, extend your line past the third and stop halfway to the fourth, then repeat until you finish the branch.

As of now, some of your branches were constructed with a single line, by doing this you often lose control of your lines, risking the solidity of your branches.

For your ellipses, you do a good job with the variation of their degrees in this section, but remember to draw through your ellipses twice.

Plant Construction Section

Now let's move on to your plant constructions, I'd like to start by stating that just like how we must commit to our lines, we must also commit to our drawings. Even if they're not turning out the way we expected we mustn't discard them like you did in several of your pages, as every drawing you give up on is also a learning opportunity that you throw away.

I also need to give you a reminder that when tackling these exercises you want to be entirely focused on the task at hand and follow the instructions as they are written. So if you're going to be tackling plant constructions you'll want your entire page to be made up of plant constructions, with no leftovers of other exercises such as form intersections present, which I noticed you had in a lot of your pages.

Moving on, you're struggling to apply the leaf construction method to your constructions such as in your almond flower here, using it as a tool to capture the likeness of your reference instead of using it as a base to construct your plants, you also end up skipping construction steps by drawing the smaller leaves without a flow line, a mistake that also appears in the virginia plant. Similar mistakes are present in your hibiscus demo, where you don't connect the outer edges to the end of the flow line. Also in your spider gilly, you completely skip construction steps and draw parts of it as single lines, this doesn't convey any sense of depth or tridimensionality, you also draw it's stem with a single line, instead of following the branch construction method.

So remember to draw bigger, such as one plant per page instead of several. Drawing too small doesn't allow your brain enough room to work through the spatial reasonings that arise when tackling these exercises, by drawing bigger you'll also give yourself enough space to fully engage your whole arm when drawing.

Remember to construct cylindrical forms around a minor axis, like you should have added for your king oyster demo.

Don't cut back into your initial constructions.

• You do this in the body and cap of your magical mushroom. Cutting back into your initial construction instead of working additionally undermines your original construction and flattens it.

• The purpose of these exercises is to develop our spatial reasoning skills through the use of exercises. We're not looking to make clean or nice looking drawings, as such all the methods and principles introduced in the course should be considered and followed when approaching your homework pages, including building your plants from simple forms and gradually building on top of it.

For these plants while you use the branch method, you place your ellipses too sparsely forcing you to make longer lines and forcing you to lose control of them, you also lose the good ellipse degree variation you showed in your branches exercise.

Remember not to draw lighter, don't change pens either.

• Drawing lighter tends to make one think of drawabox exercises as sketching, but this isn't what we're doing here. Drawabox is a course specifically designed to develop your sense of spatial reasoning and for this all steps of the construction process must be given equal importance by being drawn in the same rich shade of black, with extra lineweight being added only to differentiate where forms sit in space in relation to one another as demonstrated here.

Try not to fill in large areas of black in your exercise such as in here, not only does it obscures the underlying construction, making it harder to properly evaluate your homework assignment, it also goes against the principles of texture in lesson 2. Texture in Drawabox is based on cast shadows, here are some useful reminders on texture.

Final Thoughts

You're falling into a couple of bad habits that are holding you back from your full potential, you're also struggling with some of the more basic concepts from this lesson, as such I believe you'll do best by revisiting these exercises with the feedback I've provided you before moving on to the next lesson.

Remember to revisit any relevant lesson material and then please reply back with your revisions, remember to take as much time as you need for each individual construction.