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

Overall you're making a lot of progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, I'll be listing a few things below that will hopefully help you achieve even better results in your future attempts.

• There's 2 main things I'd like you to work on in the arrows exercises. The first being how smoothly your arrows flow, while your lines are looking mostly confident you have quite a bit of pinching/stretching occurring which hurts their solidity, remember that if these were ribbons basically they'd flow with a consistent width and widen consistently while foreshortening. The second thing to work on is your foreshortening, you're making good use of it in the arrow itself but can apply more of it to the space between your arrows curves, by utilizing it in both of these arrows you can really sell the illusion that your arrows are moving through 3D space as shown here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercises your forms are getting a bit too complex. Right now our goal with simple forms is to have both ends being the same size and to avoid pinching, bloating, and stretching along the form's length as discussed here. I'd also like you to experiment with shifting the degree of your contours 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.

• Texture is something that most people struggle with, but I'm glad to say that you're on the right track. It's clear that you're focusing on cast shadows more than outlines or negative space you just need more time to refine your ability to capture them. I'd like you to double check this for a reminder on the importance of cast shadows as well as this image which shows how when we tackle thin line like textures we should outline and fill the shadow to create a more dynamic image.

• If you feel like you don't fully grasp form intersections just yet don't worry, 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 are appearing quite solid, great work.

• As for your organic intersections you're on the right track but your forms could wrap around one another a bit more believably. My suggestion for this exercise is to draw through all of your forms like we previously did with boxes, we do this for the same reason we did with boxes actually, it helps build up our understanding of how these forms rest in 3D space. As a final note your shadows are looking pretty good but could be pushed a tiny bit further so don't be afraid to experiment with more extreme lighting.

Overall this was a really solid submission, it doesn't appear like you're misunderstanding anything this lesson is trying to teach you just need some more mileage. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

The 25 texture challenge is optional but if you do decide to do it don't complete it before the next lesson. Unlike the box and cylinder challenges where you should complete them before specific lessons the texture challenge is meant to be tackled slowly throughout the entire course. Each texture is it's own challenge and quite a bit of work so don't burn yourself out on them.

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