Hello I'll be handling the critique for your lesson 2 homework.

Organic Arrows

-Starting with the organic arrows these are drawn with a good deal of confidence which had really helped you to capture the way the move through space and you are already making some good attempts at the perspective of the arrows, as the ribbon gets wider as it moves closer to the viewer, I also like to see that the negative space between the zigzagging sections of the ribbon decreases as it moves further away.

And it is good to see that you are making a proper use of lineweight, applying it only to the parts where an overlap happens and without using it on any mark that is particularly long.

The only bit of critique I have to offer here is that there are a few arrows where the ribbon bulges all of a sudden instead of doing it gradually, one thing that can help is to try to draw your marks much more slower while maintaining good confidence, this depends on how much mileage you have gained during your warm ups but give it a try and see how it goes.

Organic Forms with Contours

-The shape of your sausages is turning out well, and you have successfully avoided any unexpected pinching or swelling throughout their length, there is still some room for improvement so keep practicing.

-Starting with the contour ellipses I can see that you are drawing them with an awareness of how they change degree as they move to space, but you have a but of trouble fitting them snugly within the sausage, this is just a meter of mileage and practice and I have no doubt that you will continue to improve with practice.

-Moving on to the contour curves these are beginning to wrap around the surface they are falling on, you do seem to be aware of the degree shift, but it is worth to mention that contour curves are a useful tool to describe how a form sits in 3D space, however that can easily work against us by flattening our drawings, the best strategy is to use the ghosting method to think about each mark's purpose and how you are going to achieve it best, this way you will avoid adding any contours that do not add any useful information to the drawing ir that contradict what is already there.

Textures

-On the texture analysis your work is turning out nicely, I like to see a bold use of ink to fill in the cast shadows and you are achieving some nice transition from the zones with high density of detail to the more sparse areas.

-Moving on to the dissections you have kept up the good work and used every opportunity to break the silhouette and you are respecting the curvature of the sausage. I only want to quickly redirect you to this image that shows that when we are working with thin like line textures it is better to first outline the shadow shape and then fill it rather than simply drawing lines, this will help you to achieve more dynamic results.

Form Intersections

-Moving on to the form intersections, don't worry if you feel like you don't fully grasp them yet as we will be revisiting them in future lessons, this exercise is all about getting you to think about how the forms that we draw relate to one another in 3D space. I do have one thing to call out and that is your use of lineweight, just like the organic arrows exercise you should reserve lineweight when two forms overlap, also, try yo keep it subtle if you end up making it too thick you will end up turning taking the solidity of your drawings away and turn them into mere graphic shapes. Only add one extra superimposed line and do your best to have it overlapping with the previous mark. Take a look at this image which shows how to correctly apply lineweight

Organic Intersections

-Finishing with the organic intersections, your forms are beginning to wrap around each other believably. Just make sure to keep your sausages simple and equally sized, this is really the best strategy to get good results, avoid any sausages that are too long or too complex. When it comes to the cast shadows you are not pushing them far enough and they seem to be hugging the form that is casting them, as shown here . Keep in mind that they act like contour curves so push them further and give them a nice curvature.

Okayy, that should be about everything I wanted to cover, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete