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

While you're taking steps in the right direction, there are a few things I notice for you to work on in these exercises. I'll be listing them below.

• Your arrows are coming along nicely, they're looking confident and smooth which is great. The main thing you want to do is work on your foreshortening, by having the arrow get larger as it gets closer it gives the impression of it moving through 3D space, it's also important to note that you can do this with the negative space between curves of the arrow as well and a combination of foreshortening both will sell that this is a 3D object the most. You can read more about these concepts here.

• When it comes to your organic forms with contours you want to try and simplify your sausages even more, your goal is to keep both ends of the sausage relatively the same size and to avoid pinching, bloating and stretching along the form. You can read about what makes a simple sausage here. Other than that you want to make sure you're shifting the degree of your contours along the length of the form 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 tend to focus more on the outlines and negative space rather than the cast shadows created by forms along the texture. This makes it difficult for you to create a proper gradient and forces you to explicitly draw all your detail instead of implying it. Implying detail is incredibly useful once we start creating focal points, you can read more about this concept here. You may also find this image helpful, it shows how when we create thin line like textures we should still create and outline and fill it in rather than just drawing a line, the result is a texture that is a lot more dynamic and interesting to look at.

• It's good that you tried to draw the intersections in the form intersections exercises. This is a difficult exercise and if you don't feel totally comfortable with it yet don't worry it's meant as an introduction to the concept, right now we just want 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. I will say that you do still need to work on your construction of boxes, so make sure you keep doing them in your warm ups because you still suffer from inconsistent converging or even diverging lines at points.

• Lastly in your organic intersections your forms are too complicated as mentioned earlier, so work on simplifying them and you'll have an easier time with this exercise and developing your sense of 3D space. Other than that this is a solid attempt, you do want to watch your shadows though, it appears like you don't have a consistent light source so your shadows are being cast in different directions.

Overall while you have a lot of space to improve in this lesson, I believe it's mostly a case of mileage is what is needed to help you improve. You aren't making mistakes that show a lack of understanding or rushing which is great. Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups, develop your sense of 3D space and over time your results will steadily improve. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3.

Good luck and I hope you achieve your goals.