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

For future reference you could have had all of these images in 1 album and it makes it a lot easier for the person critiquing you.

With that out of the way, you are making progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson. I'll be listing some things below that will hopefully help you achieve better results in your next attempts.

• I like your use of foreshortening in the arrows exercise, the biggest issue I see here is that your arrows aren't maintaining a consistent width. There are quite a few spots where they bulge, remember in order to maintain their solid appearance that their width should be consistent, a ribbon wouldn't stretch. This is something that will become more consistent with mileage however, so as far as problems go this is one of the better ones to be occurring at this stage.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise some of your forms do start to get a bit too complex. Try to keep in mind that our goal here is to create a simple form where both ends are roughly the same size without any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form as discussed here. You also want to try and shift the degree of your contours, some could definitely be pushed further and some of your contour lines appear a bit stiff. 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're largely focusing on outlines and negative space in the texture exercises rather than the cast shadows. This makes it difficult to imply information which is helpful when we want to create believable gradients, we can use these gradients in more complicated pieces to form focal points rather than overwhelming the viewer with too much visual information. For more on the importance of focusing on cast shadows read here. Other than that you're drawing largely with lines in mind rather than creating shadow shapes, if you look here you can see that even when working with thin line like textures, outline and filling in the shadow results in a much more dynamic looking texture.

• 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 appear quite off in these exercises which do give the impression that you may have been a bit hasty in this exercise. Remember that whether your goal is to draw 1 box/form or 100 you should treat each line with the same amount of planning and confidence.

• As for your organic intersections you're off to a good start, but I'd recommend simplifying your form pile a bit more and try to push your shadows further. They're currently hugging the form creating them rather than being cast in a consistent way that makes much sense, try moving your light source to the upper right/left rather than directly above to build up an understanding of how shadows and light behave.

Overall you have some things to work on but I don't believe you misunderstand the concepts being introduced, rather that you just need more mileage (and maybe some more patience.) I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups, give texture another go and good luck in lesson 3.