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

You're making progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, I'll be listing things I notice below that will hopefully help you achieve better results when you attempt these exercises again in the future.

• When it comes to your arrows the first thing I notice is that you want to work on having your arrows flow a bit more smoothly. At the moment there are quite a few spots where you have some bulging or stretching occurring, remember that our goal here is to create smooth ribbon like arrow and we use foreshortening to make it appear like it's traveling through 3D space. While on the topic of foreshortening I'd also recommend practicing utilizing foreshortening in the negative space between curves of the arrow as this combined with foreshortening the arrow itself can really help sell the illusion that it's traveling through 3D space as shown here.

• Your organic forms with contours are off to an alright start but are much too complicated. Our goal here is to have both of our ends being roughly the same size, and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or bulging along the form's length as discussed here. I'd also suggest trying to push your contours a bit further when trying to shift the degree of your contours along the form. 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 on the right track but are focusing largely on the outlines and negative spaces rather than the cast shadows. By utilizing cast shadows can are able to create smoother gradients which are incredibly helpful when trying to create focal points in more complex pieces that would be overwhelming if we tried to explicitly draw every detail. More on this idea here.

• When it comes to the form intersections exercise the majority of your forms are looking solid, good work. If you feel like you don't fully grasp 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 lessons.

• Your organic intersections are looking pretty well done, I'm glad to see you simplified your forms here. There are some spots where your shadows don't really look believable which is something mileage will help with, but I'd also recommend trying to pick a light source that isn't directly above the form pile as it tends to be more difficult then having a light that's a projecting from the left or right a bit more.

While you do have things to work on this was a solid submission. I think you have shown a good understanding of the majority of the concepts here and the weaker spots you can improve with more mileage. With that said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you to the next lesson.

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