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

You're off to a good start when it comes to building an understanding of the concepts introduced in this lesson, I do notice a few things that you can work on to improve your future attempts and I'll be listing them below.

• Your arrows are off to a good start, just have 2 quick notes for you here. The first being that you want to try to keep your arrows flowing smoothly, you have some bulging occurring in places. The second being that you should experiment with foreshortening the negative space surrounding the arrow, by foreshortening the arrow itself and the space between the curves you can really sell the illusion of an arrow moving through 3D space. For more info on these concepts you can check here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercises you're making your sausages a bit too complex. You want to try to keep both ends the same size and avoid pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form as discussed here. You're doing a good job shifting the degree of your contours but you the line quality in your contour lines and ellipses could be better, you're getting some wobbling which shows you're not drawing them as confidently as you could be.

• As you move through the texture exercises your work improves which is great to see, this concept takes a lot of mileage in order to fully grasp so keep practicing textures but just remember you want to focus on the cast shadows and not the outlines or negative space. By focusing on the cast shadows we can create a gradient while implying information rather than having to explicitly draw everything, this is really helpful when you work on larger pieces and want to create focal points. You can read more about the important of not focusing on outlines here.

• 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 lesson material. With that said, the thing I notice the most in this exercise is your line quality could be better. Remember that whether we are drawing one box or 100 boxes on a page we want to give each line the same amount of planning and effort, when it comes to your hatching it's quite hastily done and honestly does more harm than good, as discussed in earlier material you really only need to hatch one side of a box and if you are going to hatch it should be done tidily.

• You did a good job keeping your sausages simple in the organic intersections exercise, overall this is a good attempt. The only thing I really have to note here is that your shadows aren't behaving like they would if they had a consistent light source, there are spots where you have shadows moving in different directions.

Overall this was a solid submission, you have some things to work on but I have no doubt you can fix them in your warm ups and with some extra mileage. I believe you've shown a good understanding of the majority of the core concepts here so I'll be marking your submission as complete.

Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in the upcoming material.