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

You're making progress towards understanding a lot of the concepts introduced in this lesson, with that said I do notice a few things you can work on to improve your results in the future so I'll be listing them below.

• In the arrows exercise you're making good use of foreshortening of the arrows themselves but you could apply it to the negative space around the arrows more. By having multiple curves and increasing the distance between them as the arrow moves closer to use we can really sell the illusion of an object moving through 3D space. It's definitely something you should experiment with more, for more info on this concept you can read here.

• When it comes to your organic forms with contours you're making your sausages a bit too complex. Our goal here is to create sausages with roughly the same size ends and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form. You can read more about what makes a simple sausage here. Other than that you want to make sure you keep your lines confident as you do get some wobbling occurring and to make sure you shift the degree of your contours along the form. 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 your texture exercises it appears like you're focusing more outlines, and negative space rather than what cast shadows would be created by forms along the texture itself. This causes you to have difficulty creating a proper gradient which would allow you to imply detail rather than explicitly drawing it all. There are definitely spots where I can see the idea sinking in a bit more than others, so I know you can do this it's just a matter of giving yourself time to really look at the reference and building mileage to know what shadows to draw and how you would draw them. You can read more about these concepts here.

• I'm glad you drew your intersections in the form intersections exercises. If you found this difficult or like you don't fully grasp it just yet, don't worry this is more of an introduction to the concept right no 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. We'll be going over the more in the upcoming lesson material. My only real complaint with this exercise is you may have been a bit hasty with some of your forms in terms of planning and execution as they can be a little off in ways I wouldn't expect after your 250 box challenge. Remember if your task it to draw 1 box on a page or 100 you want to give each line the same amount of effort.

• Lastly in your organic intersections you did a good job keeping most of your forms simple here, there's 2 main things I have to note here. The first being that your shadows are mostly just hugging your forms rather than being cast in a single direction from a consistent light source as shown here. The second being that you in a way avoided some of the intent of this exercise, you want to be doing your best to lay forms on top of one another so they wrap around each other in a way that makes sense. Lots of people tend to complicate their forms in trying to achieve this but you mainly avoided it by resting many of your forms on the surface below or by angling them in a way that they wouldn't need to lay on one another. You show that you're thinking of the concepts introduced here, just not enough so try and push yourself and experiment more with this exercise in the future.

Overall while you have spots to improve, I believe you can do so with mileage and aren't showing a lack of understanding of the concepts. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3.

Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck!