I'm sorry, I just noticed that I corrected the wrong submission, that'll teach me to work on two things at the same time.

I'll leave a new correction for you later on today since there are different issues from the lesson I was supposed to correct, but feel free to take inspiration to what I may have advised there!

Aight, so I revised your submissions and the issues are entirely different than with the initial analysis I gave, so you can scratch that. I'll just re-do it all over again.

Organic Arrows: Some perspective and confidence issues here and there. But the main logic of the exercise is well-understood. Same remark than with my initial review: Try to work more on your arm movements and you should be fine in no time. Be bolder about the form of your arrows too. Don't hesitate to try unusual patterns, no one will judge you for your mistakes, it's part of learning.

Organic Forms with Contour Lines: I can see two main mistakes listed in the lesson there: Your ellipses don't vary enough in term of degree, and they aren't aligned with the minor axis. Other than that, you drew through your ellipses and the curves hook around, so that's already half of the job done.

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Texture Analysis: There are several issues to review here:

First thing, don't draw through your forms. Remember that we're dealing with shadows rather than forms there, and so your aim shouldn't be to replicate the form of the texture but how light reflects on it.

Second thing, I can see that you tried to simulate the transition from dense to sparse, but instead of doing it gradually, you simply reduced the amount of patterns drawn then ended it abruptly.

Some advices I can give you there:

• Focus on the shadows, not the forms

• Don't think about your textures in term of patterns, you'll very rarely see a texture that has a perfectly consistent set of defined forms to it. So observe instead how it reacts to the light being reflected on it.

• If you wish to use lines as a way to convey a texture, try to do them in one confident stroke, while also thinking about how they relate to other shadows around them. Here in your exercise, they feel loosely placed in space without really giving off the idea that they represent something.

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Dissections: The same remark I talked about in my first review still holds: Plan your patterns. Some of those textures feels a bit random. It's mentioned in the texture analysis exercise but everything has a flow to it. That said, you sometimes did a better attempt at following the curvature of the ellipses with your patterns, so that's already a good thing.

Don't forget to also draw your ellipses in a consistent smooth way, your forms tends to get overly-complicated.

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Form Intersections: You seem to have troubles with cubes interracting with each others, but your other forms connects fairly well. There are issues, of course, but this is a tough exercise and you're not expected to nail it right off the bat. You didn't make any of the mistakes listed in it, so it's a pass. That said, do not be shy about making a big pile out of your forms, you probably aligned them in as a stream because it felt more convenient that way, and altough it doesn't count as a mistake, you won't necesseraly improve better that way.

Organic Intersections: Your sausages aren't too complicated there, but they aren't really interacting as if they were piled up on top of each others. For now, you are still looking at your page as if it were a 2D space, and it's mostly noticeable because your sausages doesn't conflict with each others. You probably focused too much on the part of the exercise that asks you to draw the shadows, but not enough on the illusion of form. The page you sent me today is a little bit better, but there are still issues.

• I'd advise you not to draw a big form then add little droplets on top of it. Again, don't be shy, feel free to be bold and draw several big forms piling up. Think about how they conflict with each other in 3D space.

• Don't draw your shadows relatively to the sausages that casts them, but rather on the surface they're being cast on. I know that I've already said that, but your shadows still lacks a real sense of presence. Think about the form they're being cast on, then look at the form creating them and replicate the tip of that form that you think it overlaping the form it's piled on and that should do the trick.

Alright, that's it. Sorry again for my clumsiness with sending you the wrong review, and also about the fact that I may have sound harsh in this review, but I did my best to follow the official issues listed in the lessons while providing you with my own methods to avoid them.

I'd like for you to move on lesson 3, but I think there are still some issues that needs to be reviewed. Since I gave you the wrong review first, I also gave you the wrong revisions (since your issues lies elsewhere). Therefore, I'll mark the lesson as complete but I'll give you some assignments that you're entirely free to do but that I think would be beneficial to you.

Good continuation to you on DrawABox!