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

While you're taking steps towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson there are a few things I notice that you can work towards improving. I'll be listing my thoughts below to hopefully help you when you attempt these exercises again in the future.

• There are two things about your arrows I'd like you to work on. The first being that your arrows could be smoother, you have some wobbling occurring which shows a lack of confidence. There are also spots where your arrows bulge or pinch unnaturally, remember that when using foreshortening the arrow will still flow smoothly. On the topic of foreshortening I'd like you to experiment with it more, by having the arrow and the spaces between it's curves grow larger we can really sell the illusion of it moving through 3D space. When trying these again I'd suggest reading through this section again, it goes over how to utilize foreshortening, I'd also suggest that you try doing more S shaped arrows rather than twisting and spiraling. By keeping your arrows simple you'll build up your understanding faster and have an easier time keeping them smooth.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise you're off to a good start but your forms are a bit too complex. Our goal here is to create a simple sausage where both ends of the form are roughly the same size while avoiding any pinching, bloating, or bulging along it's length as shown here. I do get the impression you're trying to shift the degree of your contours which is great but you could push the shift further especially in your contour lines. 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 the outlines and negative space rather than the cast shadows created by forms along the texture itself. This makes it difficult to create proper gradients using implied information because you're trying to explicitly draw everything. Gradients are incredibly useful when we want to create focal points in more complicated pieces, for more information on the importance of focusing on cast shadows check 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 lessons. A few of your forms look like they were done a bit hastily, remember to give not only each form but each line the same amount of time in terms of planning before executing it confidently.

• As for your organic intersections I'd recommend starting off with a simpler pile of forms as going complex like this hurts the solidity of your forms. I also suggest that you draw through all of your forms, by doing so we build a better understanding of the 3D space we're working with just like we did when working with boxes. Currently your shadows are mostly just hugging the form creating them rather than being cast on to the form or ground below them, having a light directly above is more difficult than having one in the upper left or right so I'd recommend trying to position your light in one of these corners and experiment with your shadows more.

Overall while you do have things to work on, I believe you mostly need more mileage, to remember to draw every mark you make confidently and perhaps a bit more patience in a few spots. You're grasping the concepts being introduced so I'll be marking your submission as complete with the hope that you'll be working on these exercises in your warm ups.

Keep practicing all the previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 3.