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

You're making progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, I'll be listing a few things below that I notice you can work on to hopefully improve your next attempts at these exercises.

• Your arrows are off to a good start but could flow a bit more smoothly, there are spots where they bulge or pinch. I'd also recommend experimenting more with foreshortening, by utilizing it in the space between curves of the arrow as well as the arrow itself we can really sell the illusion of the arrow moving through 3D space, for more information on this idea you can check here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your forms do get a bit too complex. Remember that our goal here is to keep both ends of the form roughly the same size, and to avoid pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form itself as shown here. Pushing the degree of your contours further and shifting them would also be something to work on. 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.

• When it comes to the texture exercises you're focusing largely on outlines and negative space rather than cast shadows created by forms along the texture. This makes it difficult to create proper gradients which are useful when we want to create focal points in more complex pieces. Your orange peel dissection is a bit closer to the goal here, for more information on the importance of focusing on cast shadows check here. One last thing I'd like you to check is this image that shows that when we're working with thin line like textures we should still outline and fill the shadow in, by doing so we create a much more dynamic texture than just drawing a simple line.

• 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. Some of your forms do get a bit wobbly and could be tidier which shows you may have been a bit hasty in this exercise, remember that whether our goal is 1 form or 100 we should be treating each line we create with the same amount of time in terms of planning before drawing them confidently. As a final note in this exercise, make sure you draw the minor axis of your cylinders, you skipped a step.

• Your forms in the organic intersections exercise are wrapping around one another nicely. Your shadows do hug the form a bit at times rather than being cast so try and push them further.

Overall this was a solid submission, you have some things to work on but I'm sure you'll smoothen them out with more mileage. With that said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups, give some extra attention to texture to try and really get comfortable focusing on shadows.

Good luck!