Hello, I'm Kotka and I'll be revieweing your submission today!

Overall, you have completed this Lesson with flying colors, even though you say it was hard you did very well. I have some tips that I think you should keep in mind. Let's dive into it!

Organic Arrows

Your edges overlap properly and you show perspective correctly by narrowing the distance between the curves as the arrow travels further from view. Very good line quality with some minor hiccups, but nothing to worry too much about - it will become even more smooth with more practice. You have thickened the topmost overlaps of the arrow curves and the hatching is well done - if you look carefully in the instructions, the hatches are supposed to be a little more dense the closer we get to the actual turn of the arrow plane. You have very similar hatching distances, which is a minor miss.

Organic Forms with Contour Lines

Your sausages are properly round at the edges, the same size in both ends, and they are not overly complicated. Your ellipses and contour lines are well placed inside the sausage. There is enough degree variation along the sausage, but be very careful so that you choose the "right" degree order - in some of your sausages, not all, the degree sequence doesn't follow a visually logical order. If the sausage is receding in view, the degree of the ellipse should be widest/largest at the furthermost end. The next ellipse after it, now a little closer to the viewer, should have a little smaller degree, and so on throughout the sausage. I have altered some of your sausages so you can take a look at what I am talking about. Don't be afraid to use extremely small degrees and exaggerate the differences more.

This is a fine technicality that doesn't affect you passing this exercise, but something I'd think you'll benefit from considering when you use this exercise as warm-up in the future.

Texture analysis

You draw the cast shadows properly and avoid focusing on outlines. I can see the texture going dark to light, complete with lost edges at the lighter parts. I appreciate that you took the time and made everything quite neat. Looking at your details, I feel there might be some danger that you start drawing details rather than cast shadows - it's very easy to be swept away by this exercise and forget the outside world for a while. For your feathers, I'd try to minimize the individual feather fiber details and maybe even invert them at the darkest parts - so that at least some individual strands are white in a sea of black cast shadows. Try it! A little out of scope of this exercise, but yours was so well done that I think you're ready to experiment a little.

Dissection

One again, very well done. This is your strongest submission in the set. You turn the textures along the surface of the sausage in a very believable way by increasing the amount of cast shadows, building additive details upon the sausage, and keeping lost edges in the middle. This is really great, congratulations!

Form Intersections

This is a very hard exercise but you really rose to the challenge here. You have managed to avoid the most common errors - your forms are mostly equilateral, you have grouped them correctly and there are no overpasses with wobbly lines. I get a very clear idea of how you want to solve the intersections! Keep doing this as warm-up and watch yourself get even better. In your fourth paper, it's normal to think "WTF have i done", but remember there is no "right" answer - only the one you imagine and your job is to communicate it clearly.

Organic Intersections

You have done everything correctly by using uncomplicated forms, stacked perpendicularly, and the cast shadows warp around the shape below in a believable way - with some issues. Remember that a cast shadow can fall on two shapes below each other - such is the case in your second of these submissions - which will alter the way it looks. In one of the cast shadows, it looks like it's not following the underlying two sausages very well. I have redrawn a part which can give you an idea of what I mean. Not saying I have done it perfectly correctly, but the important part is to consider the effect on the two underlying sausages a bit differently.

Overall I think you should be very proud, to do this well the first time is an accomplishment. You take this seriously, draw in a neat manner and understand the principles. Congratulations on finishing and good luck with Lesson 3!