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 good start, they appear to be flowing confidently which is great. What you need to keep an eye out for is the consistency of their width. As the arrow flows towards us it will become wider but we want them to widen consistently rather than suddenly widening or it gives the impression that our arrows are stretching which hurts their solidity. I'm also glad to see you're experimenting with foreshortening, keep it up.

• A few of your organic forms with contours get a bit too complex but most of them are kept nice and simple. Just remember that our goal is to draw forms where both ends are the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. You're doing a good job of shifting your contour curves, you can push your ellipses a bit further however, overall though this is an excellent step forward and with more mileage you'll become more consistent.

• 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. As two quick final notes, I think you'll benefit from drawing fewer forms but drawing them larger and in the analysis exercise when drawing your gradients you want the left side where you draw the black bar to be the darkest points (you appear to make the center the darkest section).

• 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. Overall your forms appear solid and like they belong in a single cohesive 3D space, good job.

• In the organic intersections you're demonstrating that your sense of 3D space is developing nicely, your forms appear to be wrapping around one another. Your contours get a bit sparse at times which shows you may have been trying to race to the finish a bit but largely these are solid attempts. One thing you can work on is your shadows, they're mostly hugging the form creating them rather than being cast onto the forms and ground below in a consistent way and you slip into form shading in some spots.

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

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