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 are a few spots where your lines begin to wobble which is a sign that you may be lacking confidence here but you can fix this quickly as long as you keep it in mind and with some more mileage. I would like you to experiment more with foreshortening when trying this exercise in the future, by utilizing foreshortening in the arrow itself (good job here so far) as well as the space between the arrow's curves (this is where you can experiment more) you can create a stronger illusion of the image moving through 3D space as shown here.

• Good job keeping your organic forms with contours simple, plenty of people struggle with this and end up over-complicating them. Just remember your goal here is ultimately to keep both ends the same size without pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length, for a quick reminder check here. Your contours are looking confidently done which is great, my only real suggestion here is to be sure to work on shifting the degree of your contours. 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.

• 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. Your forms here do look like they were potentially done a bit hastily, you have some line wobbling occurring, as well as some signs that you may not have spent as much time planning as you could have. Remember that whether our goal is to create 1 form or 100 forms we want to be spending the same amount of time for each line, this idea was gone over earlier in the course but it's always worth refreshing to keep in mind, you can read more on the topic here.

• When we get to the organic intersections you may have been a bit tired or potentially trying to rush to the end because your line quality continued to worsen. There's quite a bit of wobbling as well as attempts at redrawing lines occurring, I don't meant to constantly point this out as an attempt to make you feel bad, just to stress how important it is that we take our time to ghost and plan our line before executing it confidently. Your forms do end up looking a bit flat here in places, working on shifting the degree of your contours will help this issue so be sure to experiment in the future. Your shadows end up hugging the form creating them rather than being cast in most cases and don't behave super consistently. I often find it helpful when starting out to push your light source to the top left or right corner rather than dealing with a light directly above your pile of forms, by having an easier to identify light source you'll have an easier time building your understanding of light and shadow. This isn't a bad start by any means though, once you get some more mileage dealing with contours and experiment with pushing your shadows further you'll see lots of improvement here.

Overall this was a solid submission, you do have some things to work on but I don't believe you're misunderstanding any of the concepts, you just need more mileage. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups, give some extra time to texture to become more comfortable focusing on shadows and good luck in lesson 3!