Hey there I'll be handling your lesson 2 critique.
While you're making progress towards grasping concepts introduced in this lesson there are some spots I believe you can improve, I'll be noting them below.
In the arrows exercise you want to make sure your lines are flowing smoothly and confidently, and you want to aim to have your arrow be a consistent width instead of having any bulging occurring. You'll also find it beneficial to foreshorten the negative space between curves of the arrow, by doing so you'll give a stronger impression of the form moving through 3D space. You can read more about these concepts here.
Your organic forms with contours are off to a good start, but there's a few things to work on. You want to make sure you keep your sausages nice and simple, aim for both ends to be roughly the same size and avoid pinching, bloating or stretching along the form as described here. Try your best to have your contour lines overshoot and curve back into the form as shown here. Lastly you want to make sure you're shifting the degree of your contours along the length of 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.
Your texture exercises are a bit of a mix of results, but I do feel like you are wrestling with the correct idea in places. There are some places where you're focusing more on the outline and negative space rather than thinking about how casts shadows would be created from forms along the texture itself. This makes it difficult for you when you attempt to create gradients and imply information so you end up with floating spots of texture that don't make much sense. You can read more about the important of focusing on cast shadows here.
Solid attempt at the form intersections exercise, if you feel like you don't fully grasp them just yet don't stress. 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 lesson material.
Lastly when doing the organic intersections exercise again in the future, try to keep your forms simpler, you went a bit too complex and it hurts the overall solidity of your forms. Remember that you want to be drawing all these forms confidently as some end up with pinched ends which shows you may slowing down, and try to create a consistent light source and push your cast shadows a bit further, you often end up with shadows hugging the form that creates them rather than being cast in a way that makes much sense.
While you do have lots to work on, I do think you show an understanding of the core concepts introduced here and you'll benefit largely from mileage. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3 but I encourage you to give each of these exercises time in your warm ups.
Good luck.
Next Steps:
Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups.
Move on to lesson 3.
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