Hi Harry! I will be reviewing your homework today. Congrats on making it through Lesson 2 and especially for making it through the troubling parts! Let's go over everything ~

Arrows

Your lines are smooth and confident. The arrows start from being small and growing towards the arrowhead. I also noticed you stuck with your placed lines and didn't attempt to draw over or erase any mistakes. All perfect!

Here I noticed only little things. For example your arrows tend to grow larger around the middle part and smaller towards the front. If you have trouble keeping the lines consistent you might need to ghost over them a couple times more. Letting the arrow grow steady over time helps the viewer identify as an arrow coming clouser through space. Like this it seems like it grows in the middle instead of coming closer.

Additionally, they seem a bit slanted at times. A mistake I used to do a lot as well. Again, with more ghosting this is easy to fix, good job!

Organic Forms

You stuck to your sausage forms without changing anything about your lines. The ellipses are drawn through and follow the curvature of the form as do the contour lines, which are hooked nicely. I'd say you nailed most of the assignment!

Be a bit careful with your forms though. Remember the sausage forms are to equally large spheres connected by a tube. Your forms sometimes pinch in the middle or grow outwards. Sometimes they strecht at the ends. Here's a tip by Uncomfortable on this issue: https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage

Even though your ellipses are drawn through nicely, I noticed you like to draw through them around 3 times. It's fine normally but here they seem off at times. I don't think it's much of a major issue but if you'd like to you can experiment a bit more with drawing through 2 times maximum.

Other than that you did a great job here.

Textures

You kept to your cast shadows you noted down in your notes box and even though you did add lines, which isn't supposed to happen, they aren't too much here.

Still, here's a helpful tip by Uncomfortable again on how to combat simple lines in your shadows: https://i.imgur.com/M9JJfr4.png

Same goes for the gradient. The black bar on the left side is supposed to be not noticeable. You shouldn't be able to identify the bar to create a seamless gradient. https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/7d1f3467.jpg

It may take some time to really understand the texture and draw it all out but it definitely pays in the end!

Dissections

Sometimes you seem to forget to wrap the textures but I only saw the in a few examples. Mostly the texture wraps around the form nicely and you break the silhouette of the sausage form, making it all look much more real.

You doubled down on your lines though. Remember we're not drawing out any single forms of the texture but the cast shadows only. Lines should be barely existent if at all! If you have trouble doing cast shadows feel free to look at other student's completed homeworks or check out Uncomfortable's video on this assignment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kv1-uNGsh8&ab_channel=Uncomfortable) as well the one he did for the Texture Analysis assignment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7vfYsrL768&ab_channel=Uncomfortable). I've watched that one several times myself. Texture analysis is hard...

Form Intersections

All forms exist in the same space, interacting with each other. As well you used all the forms available, making them interact with each other. Your lines are smooth and confident. The thing with the ellipses I mentioned earlier applies here as well. Feel free to experiment with those a bit more!

Organic Intersections

Continued smooth and confident lines. This time you stuck to your cast shadows nicely and you added appropriate line weight.

Sometimes your forms seem to float a bit. You can try and make them flop a bit more but that's really the next step, I think. In addition your cast shadow sometimes miss following the form of the sausage they're falling onto. Definitely keep a closer eye on that one!

Overall I think you got the most important things. I'd still like you to do a bit of revisions before moving on onto Lesson 3.

1 page of the Arrows Exercise

1 page of the Organic Intersections Exercise

And that's it! Good job!