Starting with your arrows, these are definitely progressing in the right direction. Previously your linework had areas where it got hesitant and wobbly, and I'm no longer seeing that. Instead, your lines maintain a continuous, smooth, consistent curvature, signs that you're executing them all with a fair bit of confidence.

Continuing onto the leaves, these are also showing marked improvement. I'm seeing fewer gaps (they're not all eliminated, but they're definitely a lot less prevalent than before), and your edge detail is less repetitive, showing that you're starting to pay more attention to your reference images.

To that point, there is a quick issue I want to call out - there are inevitably going to be situations where the edge detail we wish to add is especially complex. In such cases, we may have to break edge detail into stages, rather than trying to add it all at once. The core rule to keep in mind is that every mark/shape/form we add should itself still be as simple as possible - but we can build them up with as many steps as we wish.

Here's an example I put together for another student. Currently when you get into more complexity, such as the areas here that I've highlighted in red, you basically try and incorporate it all in one go. Instead, focus on each step as though it's building up a scaffolding. What you draw in one step, will help to support what you add in the next one.

There are two other things I wanted to call out, both relating to the same leaf. Firstly, as I've highlighted here, there are chunks of edge detail where it appears that you've drawn several different sections with a single continuous stroke, which has also resulted in you zigzagging back and forth across the previous edge a little, specifically in these areas.

Remember that:

• You should not be zigzagging your marks back and forth across that existing edge, as explained here.

• Your marks must maintain a consistent trajectory as explained here in Lesson 1 where it was presented as one of the three major principles of markmaking. Basically, that is to say that if your mark hits a sharp corner, that's where it stops. You lift your pen, then move onto making the next mark, starting where the previous one ended.

Continuing onto your branches, one small point I wanted to call out is that sometimes you start with a central minor axis line that has some rather sudden bends/turns in them. On this page I've highlighted such lines in red, and the ones that are much simpler and smoother in green. I'm not sure why this is occurring, but try to stick with the smoother, gentler paths shown in green.

I also noticed that while you are doing better in terms of extending your edge segments a little farther, there are still some that fall short as marked out here. Remember that we want them to extend fully halfway to the next ellipse. Also, when you cramp the ellipses together without much space between them, this can make the exercise a lot more difficult than it needs to be, so try to space them out more.

Another recommendation I have is that when your edge segment goes off its intended path and no longer lines up with where you'd want to draw your next segment (basically where you end up with little stray "tails" like here

Lastly - and I didn't call this issue out before because you had plenty on your plate to worry about already - make sure that when you're drawing those ellipses, you're thinking about how their specific degree relates to the orientation of the circle they're meant to represent. You can review that stuff in the Lesson 1 ellipses video.

Now, I'm not actually going to spend much time on your plant constructions. They are definitely improving, but the bulk of the conceptual stuff you have to improve upon has been discussed already - the same things come up in the plant constructions themselves, so there isn't much sense in me repeating it. What's important is that I can see you making a good deal of effort to apply what I listed in my previous critique, and while I'm not going to mark this as complete just yet (I think I've called out enough additional things to try and work on here that it's best for you to try to work on those and come back with some more revisions), you are definitely headed in the right direction as a whole.

So! I'm gonna go ahead and assign that next round of revisions. As these revision critiques do take about as long as any other critique (which itself is not a huge deal since you're at a very high tier, so your credits will no doubt expire and compensate for it), I do want to ask that you not submit these revisions for another week - which is about as long as you spent on these revisions here, and I think that's a healthy amount of time to spend on them. That's not a comment on the quality of work or anything - just a logistical thing that'll help me ensure I have enough time to give you useful feedback.