This is so good i love your line confidence and flow/smoothness particulaly on your plant and leaves drawings

Hello I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 3 homework.

-Starting with the organic arrows section, you are drawing them with a good deal of confidence which helps you to capture their fluidity and how they move through space. Try to be more bold with them and have them overlapping more frequently, keep in mind that the negative space between zigzagging sections of the ribbon has to decrease as it moves further away as shown here.

-This fluidity carries over to your leaves, and you do a great job adding the little bumps and cuts seamlessly into the preceding structure. I like to see that you have applied the construction method correctly to the more complex leaf structures.

-Your branches are well done but there are a few things to keep in mind

• Try to use that last 'tail' of the previous segment as a runway, overlapping it directly before shooting off towards the next target. As demonstrated here, this along with the previous point's extension to that midpoint helps to achieve a smoother, more seamless transition from segment to segment.

• Make sure that you're cognizant of how the degree of each ellipse reflects its orientation in space relative to the viewer. This is something we discussed back in the Lesson 1 ellipses video, so you can check that out if you're unsure what I mean.

Now let’s move on to the plant constructions themselves.

-Overall you are doing pretty well here, you have constructed each plant steadily, step by step and you carried the solidity of those simpler stages as you build up more complexity, I don’t see that you are skipping any constructional steps, so everything maintains a tight specific relationship with the preceding and supporting structure.

I have a few things to call out but they are minor observations.

-First of all, when building cylindrical structures like pots, make sure you draw an axis to align each ellipse, it is important to define clearly how these shapes relate to one another. If you take a look at your cactus here, the ellipses that form the pot are very loosely coming together.

-In this drawing you approached the branches method in a different way, make sure you stick to the rules highlighted above, you tried to tackle the more complex details first, make sure you first set up a very simple structure and after that you can add the more complex details. You can read the informal demo about Building upon forms that aren’t already flat to get a better idea on how to do this

-And I want to suggest that you try to add lineweight to reinforce which forms/shapes are closer to us, it's generally most effective to focus the use of line weight on clarifying how different forms overlap one another. The potato plant's a good example for this, because you've got so many overlapping leaves that we've drawn through, creating a bit of a visual mess. Cast shadows can definitely help with this (since the shadow falls on the leaf underneath), but line weight applied specifically where the overlaps occur as shown here, is also an extremely useful tool.

-And finally I want to raise a point I mentioned in the critique for your lesson 2 homework, when we're working with thin line like textures if we outline and fill the shadow we will create a much more dynamic texture than simply drawing lines a shown here.

Anyway! I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. Keep up the great work.