Starting with your arrows, great work drawing them with clear confidence and fluidity, establishing how they move through space. This carries over nicely into your leaves, where you've done a pretty good job of capturing how they not only sit statically in space, but also how they move through the space they occupy. I also feel you're moving in the right direction as you build up more complex edge details and apply these principles to more complex leaf structures. You've shown a good deal of respect for the principles of construction - building upon the structure from the previouos phase, rather than trying to replace it.

I'm also pleased to see you trying to figure out how to imply the presence of vein structures along the surface of that upper-left leaf. The result wasn't great, but you're moving in the right direction - it's just a matter of practicing the use of that approach more, and figuring out where to place your cast shadows to yield the most natural impression. When it comes to texture, it helps to try and get the impression of the texture across with as few marks as you can. Students will often think that the more they draw, the better - but holding back, thinking more, and drawing less is often the better path.

Continuing onto your branches, nice work! You're following the instructions nicely, extending your segments fully halfway to the next ellipse, and also maintaining a consistent width through each branch structures' length. The resulting simplicity of the structure helps emphasize its solidity, making for a solid base structure upon which we can build when getting into our plant constructions.

Moving through your plant constructions, for the most part you have done a pretty good job. You're still working to maintain that fluidity to your leaves, and you're continuing to work from simple to complex. There are a few issues that I will address, but all in all, you're doing well.

• The first thing that stood out to me was just the fact that you may have missed the part of the homework assignment instructions that stated the demonstrations should make up less than half of your plant constructions. Here I'm only seeing two drawings of your own. Now, if you weren't as good at following all the other instructions, this would have been grounds for revisions on their own - but I will overlook it this time. Still, it's one thing to have a student draw the step by step demos I already put together - but having to look at a reference yourself, distill it into simple forms, and build it back up, is a whole other story. I was particularly pleased with yout 7th plant construction drawing though, and it made it clear that it wouldn't be worth having you do more.

• For the daisy demo (plant 1), remember that the little lines you've drawn along the petals are themselves texture created from the little ridges along the petals. As with all texture, you should be drawing shadow shapes rather than individual marks - to ensure that you do this consistently, make a point of forcing yourself to draw all your textural marks with a two step process - first outline the cast shadow shape, then fill it in. That'll keep you from giving into the temptation to just paint your texture on stroke by stroke.

• When you added edge detail to your hibiscus petals, you fell back into zigzagging your strokes. Remember that construction is all about building upon the existing structure, adding little bits at a time, rather than completely redrawing and replacing the existing structure.

So! All in all, good work - just make sure you submit more work that isn't done from my demos in the next ones. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.