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 pretty good start, just a few quick notes for you here. Your arrows don't always flow as consistently as they could, you have some spots where they widen/narrow suddenly which can break their solidity overall by appearing like they're stretching. I'd like you to experiment with foreshortening a bit more when it comes to the negative space between curves of your arrows, not only will the arrow itself widen/narrow as it gets closer/further from the viewer but so will this negative space, utilzing foreshortening in this way we can create a stronger illusion of an object moving through 3D space as shown here.

• You managed to keep your organic forms with contours simple overall which is great, lots of people get too complicated here. Just remember that as discussed here our goal is to keep both ends the same size and to avoid pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length. I'd like you to work on trying to shift the degree of your contours more 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. Your corn dissection is on the right track, but your paper analysis is done incorrectly. We aren't trying to convey multiple values here, which is why we don't instruct you (or show you in the examples) to use hatching in these exercises. Our goal is to focus on cast shadows and to consider the lighting in which they're created, this is probably easiest to convey with a gradient, the left side of our texture analysis is the darkest part so it's a pure black bar, the left side receives the least light so it can form shadows for even the tiniest of forms along the texture. As you move to the right the texture receives more and more light until all the way on the right side the majority of shadows will be completely blown out and only the deepest shadows can possibly remain. It's up to us to imply this information by deciding which shadows to include and which to exclude based on the forms creating them. The shadows we draw are solid black or they don't exist, no hatching.

• 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 quite solid and like they all belong in the same 3D space, good work.

• No major complaints about your organic intersections exercise, some of your shadows could definitely be pushed further though. This is a great exercise for building your sense of 3D space, understanding of organic forms, and the basics of light and shadow so keep experimenting in your warm ups, try using different light source positions as well.

Overall this was a solid submission, you have a few things to work on but I know you'll improve with more mileage. I'll be marking your submission complete and moving you on to the next lesson, good luck.