Maxhate

I would say you improved on everything but the arrows and the gradident portion of the textures. Here's an example of a good gradient. The key thing to note is the tranistion from dense detail to sparse detail. When you want to show textures that are closer to your light source try to think about using the least amount of detail possible while still keeping the texture recognizable. If you want show the texture in shadow along side the shadows being bigger also try to add more details to show this as well.

For your arrows the issue the size of the x you make when you cross over between them is too tall. You want to make the x when you cross wide rather then tall. If you do that your arrows well look way better in future.

Overall your lesson two feels very rushed. I think in the future you should slow down read the lessons in their entirety. It can be very frustrating to not understand a lesson or be able to successfully to execute. I myself really struggled with lesson two and ended up rusing through alot of it and had to redo here what it looked when I rushed then I went back read everything then watched the video. I looked at my own work and circle what I did that worked and what didn't while looking at submission that actually went well and got approved for the next lesson. I slowed down and it ended up like this which is much better it still needs work but it is a lot better then when I rushed. The key to learning and understanding this is going slow remember quality is more important then speed. Speed will come with mileage.

Organic Arrows

Your arrows look flat. Some of your arrows don't overlap at all. Some arrows are generally just wobbly and widen and shorten completely arbitrarily. All of these mistakes compounded make the arrows look flat.

Organic Forms with Contour Lines

Some of your sausages are distorted and flat. This is most likely due to your circles degrees not varying much. Remember, there's a list of things you should avoid in the homework explanation. These include:

Ends of different sizes

Roundedness on the ends that stretches farther than the size of a sphere

Midsections that swell or pinch

Texture Analysis

In my honest opinion I think the major issue here is not slowing down and observing the the cast shadows that the textures create. A good texture analysis almost exclusively focuses on these cast shadows and very little on forms. I highly recommend you rereading the lesson slow down and really observe the texture. Also try setting a timer for 15mins don't draw anything just look at the texture then repeat the timer and only draw notes about the texture and make an attempt to draw a smaller version of the texture a page seprate from your texture analysis page. Only after you have done this should you try to draw the texture analysis. I know that you completely capable of doing this make sure you take your time and really think. Its ok to fail as it is the most valuable experience for us to learn from don't fear it embrace it.

Dissections

Same advice as before The only difference is now the texture is on a 3d form. Try make your texture adhere to the 3d shape you have created.

Form Intersections

Your forms are pretty distorted. You are rushing through the boxes and other forms. Take it slow you're not in a race so don't feel pressured to finish the homework fast. otherwise I think you did a good job here showing intersections between the forms

Organic Intersections

Again, distorted saugue forms. A lot of the shadows seem arbitrarily placed as well. I think the lack of 3d comes from the fact that you haven't made a 3d form as your contour lines are all the same degree which give a flat feeling. On top of this some of your forms are floating in space or are missing a cast shadow for example the form in contact with the ground is missing a cast shadow in both of your examples.

These are much better. Make sure you are continuing the warm ups throughout the rest of your art journey as they are a useful tool to tackle any weakness you find out you have.

Super imposed lines

Overall these lines look good be mindful of arc if you include these in your warm up. The key to lowering the amount you arc is to be mindful of how your muscles feel when you arc

Ghosted lines

There is some minor arcing lines but other then that these are very good. use the same advice as for superimposed lines to combat the arcing

Ghosted planes

These look good to me. I still see some arcing so remember to slow down and pay attention to what it feels like when your lines or curving.

Table of Ellipses

Your Ellipses aren't overlapping good job. I am noticing that some of your circles are not smooth. Remember try to keep your arm speed constistant as slowing done or speeding up during your drawing process will mess with the smoothness and throw off your trajectory. Remember the most important part of making a good circle is a good flow.

Funnels

Some of your funnels have circles that are all the same size and some aren't touching the curves you seemed to have fixed later on but make sure they hit the curves you set up.

Ghosted planes with ellipses

Good these circles stay within the bounds. My suggestion to make the circles a bit smoother is to ghost them more times before placing them. For me personally when I did them I ghosted them about 10-20 times before I placed them down and that has been reduced to about 5 times as of today.

Rough perspective

These are actucally pretty good for lesson one. I would say focus more on making confident lines in the future

Rotated boxes

This one is hard as well but you did a good job on it the only issue is they curve too fast but that should improve over time

Organic Perspective

This one is also a hard one to do at first but become much easier after you do the 250 boxes challege. remember that the perspective lines of each face should converge to a specific vanishing point. I think what really helped me was to draw two dots per line, one that represents the correct ghosted angle to the vp and another that is for the juction between lines that still adhear to this ghosted angle I mentioned before.

Since you ailgment wasn't a huge issue I thought I should point it out as in the lesson it says the following "You don't need to worry about this if you're still struggling with the alignment of your ellipses"

Super imposed lines

I see some minior fraying at the beginning remember when you are placing your lines make sure to slow down and place your pen in the same position. There is a lot of wobble in these a few tips to correct this:

1. Draw from the shoulder making sure your elbow and wrist joints are locked

2. Focus on making confident lines from the shoulder ignore acrruacy until you can make confident lines

3. Trust your arm even if you feel it going off coruse don't correct it mid stroke finish the stroke then figure out what went wrong

Ghosted lines

There is a lot of wobbling . This singles to me you might be too focused on hitting the dot as opposed to making a confident line. Try to first make a confident line then move on to hitting the dot consistently. Use the steps listed before to improve these

Ghosted planes

These look better to me I see a lot of improvement between this an your ghost lines good job. I still see some wobbling so remember to slow down and ghost your lines a few times (3-10) before placing them down. I suggest when ghosting you should pick up your hand when reach the end of each ghosted line as this helps cement muscle memory of the movement

Table of Ellipses

Your Ellipses are overlapping a bit so I believe you should ghost them a few more times before placing them (When I did them for the first time I ghosted about 10-15 times). I am noticing that some of your circles are not smooth. This most likely due to you not keeping the same speed throughout the whole motion. Avoid slowing down or speeding up during the movement instead try to keep the same speed.

Funnels

Some of your funnels have circles that are all the same degree you seemed to have fixed later on but make sure to make them smaller as they go towards the center. The circles here are better then in the table

Ghosted planes with ellipses

Good these circles stay within the bounds. My suggestion to make the circles a bit smootheris the same as in the table of Ellipses.

Rough perspective

I noticed some of the trouble you had doing this I had issues myself with this one too. One thing that helped me to get better at this was to first understand that only one set of lines should be converging towards the vp while the rest should be going straight off the page. I also made sure to ghost the line towards the vanishing point as well. I think this advice from my own reviewer was very helpful "Remember that the front and back planes of each one of them should have the horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and the vertical lines perpendicular to it." -Pedro Also remember to ghost your lines and draw from the shoulder to prevent the wobbling with your lines.

Rotated boxes

This one is hard as well. I think you may benefit from rereading the homework. but don't worry too much you'll get better with time

Organic Perspective

This one is also a hard one to do at first but become much easier after you do the 250 boxes challege. remember that the perspective lines of each face should converge to a specific vanishing point. I think what really helped me was to draw two dots per line, one that represents the correct ghosted angle to the vp and another that is for the juction between lines that still adhear to this ghosted angle I mentioned before.

Overall your lesson two feels very rushed. I think in the future you should slow down read the lessons in their entirety. It can be very frustrating to not understand a lesson or be able to successfully to execute. I myself really struggled with lesson two and ended up rusing through alot of it and had to redo here what it looked when I rushed then I went back read everything then watched the video. I looked at my own work and circle what I did that worked and what didn't while looking at submission that actually went well and got approved for the next lesson. I slowed down and it ended up like this which is much better it still needs work but it is a lot better then when I rushed. The key to learning and understanding this is going slow remember quality is secondary to speed. Speed will come with mileage.

Organic Arrows

Your arrows look flat. Some of your arrows don't overlap at all. Some arrows are generally just wobbly and widen and shorten completely arbitrarily. All of these mistakes compounded make the arrows look flat.

Organic Forms with Contour Lines

I assumed you used them for the Dissections

Some of your sausages are distorted. Remember, there's a list of things you should avoid in the homework explanation. These include:

Ends of different sizes

Roundedness on the ends that stretches farther than the size of a sphere

Midsections that swell or pinch

Texture Analysis

In my honest opinion I think the major issue here is not slowing down and observing the the cast shadows that the textures create. A good texture analysis almost exclusively focuses on these cast shadows and very little on forms. I highly recommend you rereading the lesson slow down and really observe the texture. Also try setting a timer for 15mins don't draw anything just look at the texture then repeat the timer and only draw notes about the texture and make an attempt to draw a smaller version of the texture a page seprate from your texture analysis page. Only after you have done this should you try to draw the texture analysis. I know that you completely capable of doing this make sure you take your time and really think. Its ok to fail as it is the most valuable experience for us to learn from don't fear it embrace it.

Dissections

Same advice as before The only difference is now the texture is on a 3d form. Try make your texture adhere to the 3d shape you have created.

Form Intersections

Your forms are pretty distorted. You are rushing through the boxes and other forms. Take it slow you're not in a race so don't feel pressured to finish the homework fast. Take your time and read the lesson fully.

Organic Intersections

Again, distorted forms. A lot of the shadows seem arbitrarily placed as well. I think the lack of 3d comes from the fact that you haven't made a 3d form as your contour lines are all the same degree which give a flat feeling. On top of this some of your forms are floating in space or are missing a cast shadow.

Looking at your lesson one I also noticed a some mistakes that need fixing too that are also to blame for you not understanding much of lesson two.

please submit all your partial submissions as one post so I can give you feedback for lesson 1 to 2

Super imposed lines

I see some minior fraying at the beginning remember when you are placing your lines make sure to slow down and place your pen in the same position. Overall these lines look good.

Ghosted lines

There is some minor arcing lines but other then that these are very good.

Ghosted planes

These look good to me. I still see some arcing so remember to slow down and pay attention to what it feels like when your lines or curving.

Table of Ellipses

Your Ellipses aren't overlapping good job. I am noticing that some of your circles are not smooth. Remember try to keep your arm speed constistant as slowing done or speeding up during your drawing process will mess with the smoothness

Funnels

Some of your funnels have circles that are all the same size and some aren't touching you seemed to have fixed later on but make sure to make them smaller as they go towards the center.

Ghosted planes with ellipses

Good these circles stay within the bounds. My suggestion to make the circles a bit smoother is to ghost them more times before placing them. For me personally when I did them I ghosted them about 10-20 times before I placed them down and that has been reduced to about 5 times as of today.

Rough perspective

These actucally pretty good for lesson one. I would say focus more on making confident lines in the future

Rotated boxes

This one is hard as well but you did a good job on it the only issue is they curve too fast but that should improve over time

Organic Perspective

This one is also a hard one to do at first but become much easier after you do the 250 boxes challege. remember that the perspective lines of each face should converge to a specific vanishing point. I think what really helped me was to draw two dots per line, one that represents the correct ghosted angle to the vp and another that is for the juction between lines that still adhear to this ghosted angle I mentioned before.

Finshed I thanks for the critique I think what you said had I big impact on my textures

https://imgur.com/gallery/8UD95J7