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

You're making good progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, below I'll be listing some things that will hopefully help you in your future attempts at these exercises.

• Your arrows are off to a good start, they're flowing smoothly and confidently for the most part. My only real suggestion here besides just becoming more consistent through mileage is to try and experiment with foreshortening more. By utilizing it in both the arrows themselves as well as the negative space between their curves we can create a stronger illusion of our arrows moving through 3D space as demonstarted here.

• Some of your organic forms with contours get a bit too complex, remember our goal is to create simple forms where both ends of the form are the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. I'd like you to experiment with shifting the degree of your contours as well. 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.

• In the texture exercises you're focusing largely on outlines and negative space rather than cast shadows created by forms along the texture itself. This makes it difficult to create gradients with implied information which we could then use to create focal points in more complex pieces, by doing so we can prevent our viewers from being visually overwhelmed with too much detail. For more on the importance of focusing on cast shadows read here. I'd also like to quickly direct you to this image which shows that 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.

• If you feel like you don't fully grasp form intersections just yet don't worry, you're on the right track but 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 lessons. your forms appear solid and like they belong in a single cohesive space, your hatching is quite tidy as well, good job.

• You're off to a good start with the organic intersections exercise. Your understanding of the 3D space you're trying to construct is clearly developing by the way your forms are interacting with one another. In the future when attempting this exercise I'd like you to draw through all of your forms, we do this for the same reasons we did in the previous exercises, drawing through our forms helps us understand how these forms rest in 3D space. A few of your forms flatten out and lose solidity and could wrap around one another a bit more smoothly, drawing through your forms will help you with this. I think you'd benefit from simplifying your piles a bit more, not only would this help in your understanding of how to wrap forms around one another but it would give you more room to experiment with shadows as well, currently a lot of your forms end up a bit hidden behind one another. This is a good start however, just keep experimenting with forms and lighting positions.

Overall this was a solid submission, you have some things to work on but I believe you can address these issues with more mileage in your warm ups. I'll be marking your submission complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 3!