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 looking confident and smooth, no major complaints here. One thing you can work on though is your foreshortening, by utilizing it in both the arrows themselves and the negative space between their curves we can create a stronger illusion of an arrow moving through 3D space as seen here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your forms get too complex. Remember that our goal in this exercise is to create forms where both ends of the form are the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. I'd also like you to work on shifting the degree of your contours. 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, 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 are appearing mostly solid but there are some spots where your line confidence weakens and it results in a bit of wobbling and the convergences of your forms could be more consistent. You may have tackled this exercise a bit too quickly and didn't give each line enough time in terms of planning while ghosting, just remember that whether our goal is 1 form or 100 we want to give each line the same amount of time. You may find this write up on the idea of units of work helpful.

• Your organic intersections are off to a good start, you demonstrate that your sense of 3D space is developing nicely by wrapping your forms around one another believably. Good job pushing your shadows so that they cast rather than just hug the form creating them as well.

Overall this was a pretty solid submission, you have some things to work on but I believe you can address these issues with more mileage in your warm ups. I'll be marking your submission complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

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