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

Before I start going over your work I'd just like to suggest that you may want to invest in some printer paper, the sketchbook you're working in looks like the paper may be rough on your pens and absorb a lot of the ink, and if it is then the printer paper will save you money in the long run rather than having to replace your pens frequently.

With that out of the way I will say that your arrows are off to a good start, they're looking confidently drawn. Two suggestions for improvement that I have are that you want to experiment with foreshortening and to work on your hatching.

• When it comes to foreshortening you want the curves of the arrow to be closer together when the arrow is further away, and as it gets closer to the viewer the gap between each curve will widen. You can read more about the concept here.

• As for the hatching you want to make sure that you're spending the time to ghost and neatly lay out your lines parallel with each other width wise across the arrow rather than just attempting to shade the section in.

Other than that these are mostly well done, just remember that you don't want to be redrawing your lines either, work with your mistakes and learn from them.

Your organic forms with contours are looking confidently drawn and smooth, you are making the same mistake as most people do where you're attempting to draw your forms too complex. Drawing them simply is the challenge here, make sure both ends are relatively the same size and round, avoid pinching along the forms or stretching them out. You can read about what we're looking for in a simple form here.

Aside from that your contour lines and ellipses are looking smooth and well drawn but you want to make sure that your contours shift degrees along the form. 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.

Textures are a difficult beast to tackle and I can see you had a bit of a hard time with them. I'll try and offer some pointers to help you with your future attempts.

• It appears that you're attempting to draw the shapes and forms you see, along with filling negative space rather than considering the shadows that the forms themselves create. You can read more about this idea here.

• Doing so also makes it more difficult to properly create a gradient because you're focusing on the negative space and not applying shadows based on the texture's forms. Which you can read about here.

• In your dissections it's noticeable that you're working more from memory than direct observation and need to remember to look at your reference more frequently, only looking away long enough to make specific marks as explained here.

• Lastly when working with thin line like textures, instead of simply drawing a line you'll find it beneficial to outline the shape and filling it in, this creates a more dynamic shape which benefits the entire image. More on that here.

There is a lot of room for improvement in this section but it's notably difficult, we don't expect you to nail it your first attempt so be sure to read through the texture lesson material and practice it in your warm ups and in your free time.

In the form intersections exercise your forms are mostly well constructed, but I do get the impression you may have been a bit hasty in this exercise as some of them are a bit sloppily done and could use more time planning/ghosting. Your ellipses are quite loose and you drew very few forms as some examples of it being hasty.

You did attempt to draw the intersections which is good to see and your forms are consistent in terms of foreshortening, intersections are difficult but 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 going over them a lot more in the upcoming lesson material.

Your organic intersections are off to a good start, but there are 2 notable things I'd like to point out.

• You want to keep your forms as simple as you can, this will help you build a better understanding of how they behave in different scenarios. You can read about keeping them simple here.

• Your shadows are clinging to the form rather than being cast by the form, this is something that takes practice and keeping your forms simple will be hugely beneficial. You can read about shadows here.

There are spots for you to improve in this lesson but I believe you've shown a good understanding of the majority of the concepts and if you tackle the weak spots in your warm ups with some extra mileage you should be able to clean them up. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3. Good luck.