Hello Inimaris, Congratulations on finishing lesson 2. I'll be giving you feedback, pointing out mistakes you've made as well as thing you did good.

Organic arrows

• The arrows look good. The taper off to the end nicely and there are some dramatic/expressive arrows in there as well which I like to see.

• Most of the lines flow nicely but there are a few where I feel like there is some hesitation which causes the lines to wobble a bit. This should clear up with practice. Just remember to use the ghosting method and put down your stroke with confidence.

• You make good use of hatching to show which way the arrows are moving. I suggest to add some extra line thickness as well to lines that overlap other lines to better differentiate which are in front and which are in the back.

Organic forms with contour lines

• The lines look good. The sausage shapes are drawn in one continuous stroke and the ellipses are drawn through multiple times.

• There is some experimentation with the orientation of the contour curves. You can push this further by making the difference in the angle of rotation bigger or showing both ends of a sausage shape like in this diagram.

Texture analysis

• You've made a clear analysis of the textures and applied it to the gradients. The gradients go from dark to light and you've blended the black and white bars into the gradient nicely.

• Be mindful of adding single lines in your textures. The goal is to only use shapes rather than lines so that we keep looking critically at how the shadows cast by the texture actually looks.

Dissections

• Most of the textures have a light part in the middle but outside of that they remain mostly the same level of lightness. They should become darker and darker towards the edge (but not completely black) as the round shape turns away from the viewer. The result of this is that some textures still look a bit flat even though they are on a rounded surface.

• You're making use of the contour to show your texture. In the durian the spikes look somewhat disconnected from the rest of the texture but in the velvet and tungsten textures it works very well.

Form intersections

• Your linework on the base shapes looks good with clean confident strokes. The spheres look a bit off but that's okay as this is the first time using them and they can be very difficult to get right.

• I don't see major mistakes in the intersections. You look like you have a good understanding in how shapes interact in 3D space.

• These pages are very full. I enjoy the enthusiasm but it makes it kinda difficult to see the individual shapes. You are already using extra lineweight on overlapping strokes. What would also help is hatching one of the faces of each shape so you get a better feeling of their orientation.

Organic intersections

• Much like with the arrows I sense some hesitation in your linework. As usual the solution is using the ghosting method diligently and a lot of practice. The former is something you should be constatnly aware of, the latter is something that comes with time and I wouldn't worry about it.

• You make good use of the cast shadows to convey the shapes and how they interact each other. Here also much like the arrows exercise I suggest adding lineweight on overlapping lines to more clearly show the foreground from the background.

As a last note you said that you've had a break in your drawing and are feeling rusty. Normally you are supposed to do a warmup exercise from a previous lesson before you do any drawing for your current lesson. When you've been out of for a while my suggestion is to spend more time on these warmups until you feel more confident to continue.

Overall you did a good job and are ready for lesson 3.