Hi Larinam,
I've checked your submission,
Your Organic Arrows have really confident line quality, though it looks like you are a little confused on where are supposed to be the shadows and the line weight, Here is a quick demo showing exactly that. Another quick advices to create a stronger illusion of depth would be to make the arrow bigger as it gets closer to the viewer, and also to make the spaces between turns of the arrow, bigger as they get closer.
Leaves look pretty good, try to do different kinds of flows and turns, you are repeating a little.
Branches seem like you took your time to ghost your lines, which is always good, though you are not varying the degrees of your ellipses, this is a key element to sell a good illusion of depth. Here is what I mean.
Now, on to your plants.
First recommendation would be to read more carefully the assignments of the lesson, in this case you should have done the first 4 plants without any texture at all, only focusing on construction. It's not a bad thing to go all the way and adding the textures on top of your construction, but remember that this is a construction focused course where textures is just not that important as making believable 3d forms.
Now, that I've said that, I'm gonna give you some advice on textures!
Remember that whenever you are applying it, it should be like you did in lesson 2, this means in an implicit way whit cast shadows. This is a demo I did for another student who did a similar mushroom as you did. What's important about this, is that you should not decribe exactly what the texture shows you, try to hint some of it, so the viewer does the rest.
One thing I see in your mushrooms is the same thing I said on the branches exercises, remember to vary the degrees of your ellipses, they are not all the same.
I'm noticing that you are using your ink brush for lines in some occasions, don't. The only use of the brush in this lessons is to fill in the shadows, that you have already marked the limits with your pen.
Another last thing I want to talk about is how you can communicate with shadows. Here is a way you can use shadows in order to communicate something to the viewer, in this case what's on top of what. Remember to think of shadows just like line weight, use them as tools to communicate things to the viewer.
I'm gonna mark this lesson as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 4
Dear Weijak,
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. The Imagur Links were really helpful.
Have a nice day!
Iarina
I'm glad you found it useful!
Keep it up
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