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. The widening/narrowing of the arrows could flow a bit more smoothly in some places but with mileage this should improve. Your line weight does get a bit heavy which you want to watch out for, remember when we apply line weight it's meant to be subtle. In your future attempts I'd like you to experiment a bit more with foreshortening, you play it a bit safe here but by utilizing foreshortening in the arrow itself as well as the space between curves of the arrow you'll create a stronger illusion of an object moving through 3D space. For more information on foreshortening check here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your forms get a bit too complex. Our goal in this exercise is to try and create forms where both ends are the same size and we avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the length of the form as described here. Your contour ellipses/line aren't always as confident as they could be which results in some of them appearing stiff, I'd also like you to try and shift the degree of your contours more. 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 here are looking pretty solid and like they belong in a cohesive space which is good, something I notice in a couple of your exercises is you don't always give yourself many attempts to try and really grasp what's being taught (you didn't draw many arrows either). While not necessarily a huge mistake since you're still getting some decent results, don't be afraid to fill up your page more. Remember we often build better understandings through mileage and taking our time, so if you are getting a bit hasty try to slow it down and experiment more.

• In the organic intersections exercise your forms aren't always wrapping around one another as believably as they could be. In some spots they end up floating and your shadows tend to hug the form creating them rather that casting on to the forms/ground below. I'd suggest trying to push your light source to the top left or right corner to start, people tend to be more consistent with their lighting in this positionr ather than trying to work with it directly above.

Overall this was a solid submission, you have some things to work on but with mileage you should improve and iron out any issues you had here. 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.