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

You're making good progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, below I'll be listing some things that will hopefully help you in your future attempts at these exercises.

• Your arrows are off to a good start, there's a few spots where they could flow a bit smoother but with more mileage they'll become more consistent. There's just 2 quick suggestions I have for you in this exercise, the first is to make sure you overlap your edges when you turn your arrow, there are a few spots that look flatter than they could as described here. The second thing is to just keep experimenting with foreshortening, by utilizing it in both the arrow itself as well as the space between curves of the arrow you can create a stronger illusion of an arrow moving through 3D space as discussed here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your forms are a bit of a mix of either too complex or too simple, they do improve later on which is great to see but just for clarification I'll point out some things here. Our goal ultimately in this exercise is to create a simple form where both ends are the same size and we avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. You definitely get close at times but just remember not to simplify the form so much it basically just becomes an egg, we want these forms to be able to move a bit so we can do things like wrap them around one another later on. As far as your contours go you do draw through your ellipses a bit too much which makes things appear messier than they could be, remember just an extra pass or two through the ellipse is all you should be doing. Your contour lines do appear a bit stiff and you do attempt to redraw some of them, just remember that we shouldn't be redrawing, and as long as we're drawing confidently our accuracy will improve with time. As a final note be sure to experimenting with shifting the degree of your contours 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.

• The texture exercises are definitely a challenge but you're on the right track. Keep focusing on cast shadows and with mileage you'll grow to find it easier to imply information rather than have to explicitly draw everything. I'd 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. Overall your forms are looking solid and like they belong in a cohesive space, good job.

• You're showing that your sense of 3D space is building in the organic intersections exercise. Your line quality here does suffer a bit and you have quite a bit off wobbling occurring which shows a lack of confidence, you also tend to apply line weight very heavily here. I'd suggest pushing your light source to the top left or right corner and experiment with pushing your shadows further, right now they mostly hug the form creating them rather than being cast on to the forms below. This is a great exercise for developing your sense of 3D space as well as building up an understanding of light and shadow, so keep experimenting and practicing.

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

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