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

You're off to a good start grasping the concepts in this lesson, I do see a few things that could be improved and I'll be listing them below.

• Your arrows are utilizing foreshortening well when it comes to the arrow itself, but you should use it with the negative space more. When it comes to foreshortening we have 2 main targets here, we can use it on the positive space (the arrow) and have the negative space (the space between the curves) to really sell the illusion of an arrow moving through 3D space. You can read more about the concept here.

• Your attempt at the organic forms with contours exercise was really solid. You did get close to complicating your sausages a bit too much but showed a good amount of restraint and largely kept them simple, people often struggle doing so. I'm happy to see you shifted the degree of your contours along the form's length as well, ultimately this exercise will just benefit from more mileage. Remember to keep your forms simple, you want to aim for both ends being the same size, and avoid any stretching, pinching, or bloating along the form.

• When it comes to texture you're focusing more on outlines and negative space than on the cast shadows created by forms along the texture itself. Overall this is a difficult exercise and one that requires a lot of mileage to get comfortable doing, you did have some solid attempts it's just a bit of a mixed bag. When attempting this again in the future try to keep in mind that focusing on the cast shadows allows us to imply data, and this is so important because when working on a larger/ more complicated piece we can't just explicitly draw everything or we'd not only spend way too long on it but the viewer will also be visually overwhelmed. Implied information aids with the creation of focal points so it's an important skill, just one that takes a lot of time and rewiring of the brain to do well and consistently. You can read more about the concept here. Your forms get a bit too complicated in this section as well.

• Your form intersections are off to a good start, everything looks nicely constructed and proportioned consistently. Intersections and texture are meant to be introductions to the concepts in this lesson, so if you feel like you don't fully grasp them just yet don't worry we'll be going over them more in upcoming material. 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.

• Lastly we have your organic intersections, you did go slightly more complicated than I would have suggested but you show that your grasp of 3D space is developing nicely. The biggest thing I notice here is you have an inconsistent light source and it causes your shadows to cast in different directions. In the future if you simplify your forms a bit more and settle on a light source before you start you'll find this goes more smoothly, and it'll be beneficial to your understanding of both 3D space and lighting when it comes to more difficult tasks.

Overall this was a good submission, you do have a few mistakes to work on but I'm sure with mileage you'll address them.

I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3.

Good work, and good luck!