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, I just have a few notes for you here. Your arrows widen/narrow a bit suddenly at points, we want to make sure they flow consistently or else the appear to stretch which hurts their solidity. I'd also like you to experiment with foreshortening more. You are using it the arrow itself quite well, but you can also use it in the negative space between the arrow's curves as you can see demonstrated here.

• Your organic forms with contours are mostly kept simple, good work. Just remember that our goal is to create forms where both ends are the same size and we want to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed [here.](2A: https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage) I'd like you to work on trying to shift the degree of your contours as well. 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.

• 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, you're on the right track but 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 look solid and like they all belong in the same 3D space, good work. Some of your lines do get a bit too light, remember we want every line to be confident and then apply line weight afterwards if needed.

• Your organic intersections are looking well done, you're showing that you're beginning to understand the 3D space you're trying to create. Your forms are starting to wrap around one another but do get a bit flat in some spots, shifting your contours will help with this. You're on the right track with your shadows as well, keep experimenting with different lighting angles and try pushing your shadows further.

Overall this was a well done submission, you have some things to work on but I believe you will improve with 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 and good luck in lesson 3!