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 looking pretty smooth and confident which is a great first step. Your hatching does get a bit messy, remember to give yourself time to ghost every line you create before executing them confidently. The most notable thing I'd like you to work on is your foreshortening. As an arrow moves closer to the viewer we can make it as well as the negative space between the arrows curves larger to create a stronger illusion of an object moving through 3D space as seen here. Currently you're not applying much foreshortening at all or there are some spots where your arrows widen/narrow inconsistently which hurts their solidity in 3D space.

• You're close to keeping your organic forms with contours simple but do get a bit too complex in some spots. Remember our goal in this exercise is to create forms where both ends 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 try and push your contour curves a bit further so they hook back into the form a bit more as you see here, later on you tend to neglect this. I'd like for you to try and shift 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 are looking quite solid and like they all belong in a single cohesive space, good work.

• In the organic intersections exercise you're doing a pretty good job so far, your forms appear pretty solid but your contours could be pushed a bit further. I'm glad you tried to push your shadows so that they were being cast and not just hugging the form creating them. I think in the future you'd benefit from trying to stack up a single pile of forms a bit higher and tried to have your forms wrap around one another a bit more smoothly, you currently have them laying pretty flat and in some spots they end up floating. Be sure to experiment with different lighting positions as well, this is a great exercise for building up a basic understanding of light and shadow before moving on to more complex pieces.

Overall this was a solid submission, you have a few things to work on but I believe you can address these issues in your warm ups and will improve with more mileage. 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!