Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your lesson 3 homework-

-Starting with the arrows these are drawn with a good deal of confidence which really helped you to capture the fluidity with which they move through space, the perspective seems consistent and the only thing I want to point your attention to is the application of lineweight, you can try to use it only on the very specific and exact part where the overlap occurs this will help you as you only have to add lineweight on shorter line.

-This fluidity carries over very well to your leaves, and I like the way you added the little bumps and cuts to the edges, I don’t see you tried any complex leaf structure so try them out for your next warm sessions.

-On the branches I see that you have kept the degree shifts of the ellipses in mind, but sometimes they are barely noticeable so try to be more cognizant and aware of this when you do this exercise. Watching the lesson 1 ellipses video can help you.

• Secondly, try to have each segment extending fully halfway to the next ellipse, I see plenty of cases where you fall short, and also try to have each segment overlapping a good bit this will help you to achieve smoother transitions

• Lastly when adding the additional mass to fork your ellipses try to have both of them touching the circumference of the other ellipse, take a look here which exemplifies my point more clearly

With all of these technical issues taken care of let’s move on to the plant constructions.

-On your first pant drawing, I can see some instances where you leave gaps on your construction, take a look here do you best to have each petal ending right at the tip of each flow line, remember that the constructional method is all about setting a preceding structure for our subject and establish very tight and specific relationships between the simpler stages of the construction and the more complex ones.

-On this drawing, you had your petals going beyond the boundaries which you had set, each of your flow lines and petals has to end at the very edge of the ellipse you drew, that was the purpose of putting it there on the first place.

-On this potato plant, I think you are overdoing the lineweight, so try to keep it subtle at all costs, if you make it too thick you will turn your drawings into mere graphic forms and take their solidity away. YOu may have confused them with cast shadows but cast shadows follow different rules, they are projected from one surface onto another and thus, they can't cling to the silhouette of any form and must fall onto another form even if it is further away

What you want to take from this is that it is best to focus the use of lineweight to describe how forms overlap, this potato plant is a good example because you have a large group of leaves creating a lot of visual noise, but if you overdo it you risk making this visual noise louder. So only use it on the very specific parts where the overlap occurs as shown here .

-And lastly, I can see some parts where your linework does not look as confident, so draw one thing at a time, and focus on every single mark. Use the ghosting method to ensure that you're considering what each mark's purpose is, and how you're going to achieve it best.What matters is that you execute the work to the best of your current ability.

That is it for now, and overall I think you have done a good job, so I’ll be marking this lesson as complete and move you to the next lesson. Good luck!