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

Overall you did quite well through this lesson, I do notice a few spots that could be improved and have some suggestions that you may want to implement to get better results in the future, you can find them listed below.

• Your arrows are off to a good start, there's only 2 quick things I see worth pointing out. The flow of your arrows could be a bit smoother, sometimes you have a bit of squishing or stretching occurring but this will most likely be fixed with mileage so it's minor. The more important thing to make note of is that while you implement it in some spots I want to make sure you're aware that using foreshortening in the negative space between the curves of the arrow helps sell the illusion that they're 3D, you use it quite effectively in some spots and not as much in others so it's worth the reminder just to make sure you keep the concept in mind. If you need more of a refresher on the idea you can find it here.

• Your organic forms with contours are looking smooth and confident which is great. There's 3 things I'd like you to work on when attempting them again in the future however. The first being that you want to simplify them even more, you want to make sure each end is roughly the same size and you avoid pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form. You can find more on the concept of what makes a simple sausage here.

• The second thing to work on is that you want to make sure your contour lines hook back inwards towards the center of the form rather than just end at the edge, it can be a little odd feeling to draw at first but I find helping consider them half ellipses helps me. More on that here.

• Lastly you want to try and have the degree of your contours shift along the form of the sausage.

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.

• You didn't do one of your texture gradients in the analysis section, please don't skip required exercises. Other than that I can see you put in a lot of effort trying to keep true to your references, you did a good job of focusing on the shadows themselves and the forms that created them rather than just outlining shapes and explicitly trying to draw each and every detail. In the dissections exercise your sausages could be simpler as mentioned in the earlier notes but besides that they continue to be well done. You do seem to struggle with fur/strand like textures and it appears that you resort to outlining and working from memory in these cases, texture is definitely a difficult concept to tackle and we don't expect people to nail their first attempts in this introduction so be sure to keep practicing them in the future. You can find a reminder on how we want to be thinking of the cast shadows rather than the outlines here.

• Your form intersections are well constructed and it's good to see that you attempted to draw the intersections themselves. Intersections are another difficult concept for people to grasp and this exercise is 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 working more with them in the upcoming material so don't stress too much if you feel uncomfortable with them at the moment.

• The biggest thing you can do to improve your organic intersections is to simplify your forms, you attempted to make them way too complex and it makes them appear much less solid than they could be. You also played it very safe with your shadows and they're clinging to the form rather than being cast on to each other or the surface below. When attempting this again in the future you'll find that by having simpler forms wrap around one another not only will your understanding of how they rest in 3D space grow but you'll be able to use a consistent light source to build your understanding of how shadows behave as well.

Overall you did a good job through this lesson, there are a few things to work on of course but we don't expect perfection just your best effort. With more mileage and attempts you'll gain a better grasp of all the tools you're introduced to and you'll have a stronger foundation to build upon going forward. I think you've shown a good enough grasp of these concepts that I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you forward to lesson 3. Good luck and keep practicing earlier exercises as warm ups.