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 off to a great start, no major complaints here. There's a few spots where your lines get a bit messy or your line weight gets a bit heavy rather than subtle but with more mileage you'll clean this up. I'm glad to see you're experimenting with foreshortening as well, keep it up in your future attempts.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your forms are mostly kept simple but get a bit too complex in some spots. Our goal in this exercise is to create simple forms where both ends are the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. Your contour curves get a bit stiff and wobbly at times showing you may be slowing down a bit rather than drawing confidently, just remember confidence is our first priority and accuracy will improve with mileage. You appear to be trying to shift the degree of your contours which is great, keep experimenting. 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.

• Your texture exercises are mostly on the right track, there are a few spots where you're focusing largely on outlines and negative space rather than cast shadows created by forms along the texture itself (corn/reptile scales). 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 here are looking solid and like they belong in a single cohesive space, good work.

• In the organic intersections exercise you'll benefit from improving your forms a bit more but overall this is a solid attempt. Your forms are wrapping around one another showing you're sense of 3D space is developing nicely and your shadows are behaving pretty consistently and not just hugging the form creating them.

Overall this was a really solid submission, there were a few minor things to work on but demonstrated a good understanding of what's being taught in this lesson so I have no issues moving you on to the next lesson.

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