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

You are making progress towards understanding these concepts but I do notice some things for you to work on, I'll be listing what I notice below to hopefully help you in your future attempts at these exercises.

• In the arrows exercise there's one major issue (besides the occasional arrow width consistency and line wobbling which will be fixed with more mileage) and it's related to your question about them looking off from different angles. The issue is that you don't use enough foreshortening, by utilizing foreshortening in the arrow itself as well as the space between curves of the arrow you'll sell the illusion of your arrows moving through 3D space. Right now you don't always make a large enough change between the farthest and nearest points of your arrow and don't really foreshorten the space in between curves at all, working on both of these will help make your arrows more clear. For more info on this concept read here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise you're making your forms much too complex. Our goal in this exercise is to create forms with both ends being the same size and to avoid pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form as shown here. You don't always shift the degree of your contours and could push some of the contours further as well. 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.

• 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. Most of your forms here look solid, some do appear like they may have been done a bit hastily so just remember you want to give each line the same amount of planning whether your goal is to draw 1 form or 100.

• When trying the organic intersections exercise again in the future I'd suggest drawing your initial form a bit smaller and try stacking forms upwards with the forms laying across one another. I'd also like you to push your light source to the top left or right of the page and really put effort into trying to cast your shadows as right now they're just hugging the form creating them if they're there at all.

Overall this was a solid submission, you have things to work on but I believe you can improve your results with more mileage. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

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