Hey there I'll be handling your lesson 2 critique.

You're making good progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, I do notice some things you can work on to improve your future attempts so I'll be listing them below.

• Your arrows are off to a good start, I just have 2 quick notes for this exercise. The first being that your line work and arrows could be a bit smoother, you get some wobbling or bloating occurring in spots. The second being that I'd like you to try and simplify some of your arrows and focus more on "S" curved arrows with multiple curves and experiment with foreshortening, by foreshortening not only the arrow itself but the space between curves of the arrow we can really sell the illusion of an arrow moving through 3D space as discussed here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your sausages could be simplified a bit more, remember that you want to aim towards having both of your ends being roughly the same size, and avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form as shown here. It does look you're attempting to shift the degree of your contours but if you aren't doing it intentionally then I'll quickly go over the concept again. The degree of a contour line basically represents the orientation of that cross-section in space, relative to the viewer, and as we slide along the sausage form, the cross section is either going to open up (allowing us to see more of it) or turn away from the viewer (allowing us to see less), as shown here.

• When it comes to the texture exercises your attempts look quite nice, but don't fully follow the instructions or meet the goals of the exercises. You focus quite a bit on outlines and negative space rather than the cast shadows being created by forms along the texture itself, this makes it difficult for you to imply information and create proper gradients. Implying information is incredibly useful when working with more complex pieces where you want to create focal points. You also utilize hatching in a number of spots which defeats the purpose of having to decide which shadows to merge and which details to imply. You can read more about these concepts here.

• If you feel like you don't fully grasp form intersections just yet don't worry, right now this exercise is just meant to get students to start thinking about how their forms relate to one another in 3D space, and how to define those relationships on the page, we'll be going over them more in the upcoming lesson material. I will say that some of your line weight does get a bit thick in spots and some of your forms look like they could use a bit more time in the planning stages but this is a good start.

• Your first page of organic intersections are a bit more complicated than you should aim for but the second page is nice and simple. You're off to a good start building an understanding of how these forms interact in 3D space, I only have 2 quick suggestions. The first being I'd like you to continue to draw through your forms, like when we drew through our boxes this will help build up your understanding of 3D space faster and the second suggestion I have is to spend some extra time picking a light source. At the moment your shadows mostly hug the form creating them rather than being cast down below and you also have instances of shadows moving in different directions rather than behaving like they had a consistent light source.

Overall while you have things to work on this was a solid submission and I believe you understand what is being asked of you, you just need some extra mileage to be more consistent/comfortable with the material.

WIth that said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3.

Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck!