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

While you're taking steps towards understanding a lot of the concepts introduced here, I do see some things to work on, I'll be listing them below to help you achieve better results in the future.

• In the arrows exercise I'd suggest trying to keep your lines and the rate of your foreshortening smooth. You have the habit of going from very small to very large quite quickly, and while the size difference can help in the illusion of an object moving through 3D space you don't utilize foreshortening in the negative space between curves of the arrow or transition as smoothly as you could to really sell that illusion, you can read more on these ideas here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise I'd argue that you should lengthen your forms. You keep them incredibly stubby and while it keeps them simple, it does so often in the wrong way. You want to keep both ends roughly the same size and avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form as seen here. When you begin to experiment with shifting the degree of your ellipse you'll also face some difficulty because there won't be much shifting that can occur in such a small space. 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.

• I get the impression you may have been a bit hasty with the texture exercises. You're working from a memory a lot as well as focusing on outlines or negative space rather than considering how cast shadows would be created by forms along the texture itself. This makes it difficult to create a proper gradient using implied information which is incredibly beneficial when you want to create focal points in larger more complex pieces. You can read more about the important of not focusing on outlines here. While we don't expect perfection, especially in difficult exercises like this which are more meant to be an introduction to certain concepts, I do feel like you should give these exercises more attempts in your free time to really help build up your understanding of the goals in these exercises. Lastly you will find this image beneficial, it shows how even when working with thin line like textures we should still outline and fill the shadow in rather than relying on a single line, it helps create a much more dynamic texture overall.

• Your boxes in the form intersections exercise are looking really solid, if you feel like you don't fully grasp this exercise 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 lesson material. I do think you should experiment with other forms besides boxes in your future attempts as well, while boxes are definitely great, you seem to be uncomfortable when it comes to different forms based on your previous exercises in this lesson.

• Your organic intersections are interesting, they're not bad but you didn't really get to experiment at all with the way you went about them. Again your sausages are super stubby and it doesn't really let you wrap the forms around one another which will help build your understanding of 3D space. Other than that while it appears you're trying to cast your shadows your lighting is inconsistent so they aren't casting in a way that makes much sense, some cast to the left, others to the right. Normally people create forms that are too complex in this exercise and I need to tell them to simplify them, however this is one of the few cases in which I think making your sausages just a tiny bit more complex by giving them some more length would be really beneficial to building your understanding of 3D space and shadows.

While you do have things to work on here, this wasn't a bad submission. You definitely need to work on your textures and utilizing your reference more but the rest of the exercises I believe you can improve with more mileage. I will be marking your submission as complete in the hope that you'll take a lot of what my critiques were to heart and implementing the advice in your warm ups.

Keep working at these and previous exercise in your warm ups, give some extra attention to the texture section and good luck in the next lesson.