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 really good start, they're flowing consistently and smoothly. There is the occasional line wobble occurring which shows your confidence may waver a bit but with more mileage you'll smoothen this issue out. I don't have any major complaints about this section but one thing you can experiment more with is your foreshortening, you make great use of it in the arrow itself but don't always utilize it much in the negative space between your arrow's curves. As seen here by applying it to both these areas we can create a stronger illusion of an arrow moving through 3D space.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your forms get a bit too complex, our goal in this exercise is to create simple forms where both ends are the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. Your contours are drawn confidently which is great, remember that you should be drawing through every ellipse. I'd also like you to work on shifting the degree of your contours a bit more. 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. You're also attempting to utilize hatching in order to convey value which is against the purpose of these exercises and not shown in the examples. We want to be able to simplify and imply information based on which shadows we choose to draw, this means that shadows will either exist and be pure black or there is too much light for the form to cast a shadow which results in the area being white. This results in our textures not aways being completely recognizable in an exercise like this but the skill itself is important and translates to more complicated pieces.

• 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 solid and like they belong in a single cohesive space, good work. It does appear like you may be skipping some steps in constructing your cylinders, you're not drawing the minor axis as instructed here.

• Your organic intersections are kept pretty basic but show that your sense of 3D space is developing nicely, some forms could wrap around one another a bit more but this is a great start. Your shadows don't particularly lean in any direction which gives me the impression you may want to experiment with different lighting positions and push your shadows further to develop a stronger sense of how they would cast in different scenarios.

Overall this was a really solid submission, you had plenty of strong attempts at these exercises and while you have a few things to work on I have no doubt you can improve with more mileage. You show that you understand what is being asked of you in this lesson so I'll be moving you forward to the next.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups, give the texture section some extra attention and good luck in lesson 3!