Hey 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 a few things I notice you can work on to hopefully to improve your future attempts at these exercises.

• Your arrows are off to a good start, I just have two quick notes for you here. The first being to keep an eye on how your arrows flow, try to avoid pinching or bloating in the width of your arrows. The second being that I'd like you to experiment more with foreshortening in the spaces between curves of your arrows, by utilizing foreshortening in these spaces along with the arrow itself we can really sell the illusion of an arrow moving through 3D space as discussed here.

• When it comes to your organic forms with contours you're attempting to get a bit too complex. Remember that our goal here is to keep both ends of our forms the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the length as mentioned here. In the future I'd like you to try push your contour lines a bit further so they hook back into the form as shown here. As a final not I'd also liek you to try and shift the degree of your contours in the future. 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, 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. For the most part your forms are coming along nicely, they appear quite solid good job.

• I have three quick suggestions for your organic intersections. The first being to try and simplify your forms more, currently they're a bit complicated and lose their solidity because of it. The second being that when stacking your forms I'd cross your forms in an x shape rather than trying to stack forms headed into the same direction, by working on these 2 things you'll have an easier time with this exercise and build up your understanding of 3D space faster. The last suggestion I have is to try and push your light source to the top left or right as it's easier to work with than having the light directly above, doing so and pushing your shadows further will help build up your understanding of light and shadow. Right now your shadows mostly hug the form creating them rather than being cast.

Overall this was a solid submission, you do have some things to work on but I believe you mostly need some more mileage with these concepts and to give some extra time to texture. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 3!