Hey there, your second attempt was actually totally fine, maybe you opened up the old link by mistake, anyways let's get started.

You're making 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.

• Starting off in the arrows exercise there are a few things I notice you can work on. One common problem across quite a few exercises is that your lines lack confidence, you have quite a bit of wobbling and stiffness occurring, remember accuracy will come with mileage but you need to be drawing confidently. The flow of your arrows isn't very smooth as well, line confidence plays a factor in this but the width of your arrows isn't consistent either. There are spots where your arrows turn and you don't overlap your edges resulting in the arrow appearing flat, more info on this mistake here. You're redrawing lines and applying line weight quite heavily instead of being subtle with it and reserving it to help clarify overlaps as instructed here. You're taking a good step forward experimenting with foreshortening but you can push it more than you currently are in some spots, remember that we can utilize it in both the arrow itself as well as the negative space between our arrow's curves to really sell the illusion of an object moving through 3D space as shown here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your line confidence is the stand out issue. You're close to keeping your forms simple but not fully there yet, our goal in this exercise is to create simple forms where both ends are the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating or stretching along the form's length as shown here. I'd also you to try to shift the degree of your contours more. 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, 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. I don't mean to beat this point into the ground but I can't stress how important line confidence is, some of your forms also look like they could have used more time in the planning stages. Your forms don't converge consistently which gives the impression you didn't ghost enough, you've shown you are capable in the box challenge so I get the impression you may have been rushing through this (you didn't even draw through all of your forms). Remember whether our goal is 1 form or 100 we want to spend the same amount of time planning and executing each line, you can read more on the importance of breaking down units of work here. As a final note you were instructed to not have small groups of forms and instead draw a large network.

• Finally when it comes to your organic intersections your forms aren't wrapping around one another and instead just kind of touch each other. Your shadows also hug the form creating them in spots rather than being cast to the point that there are shadows floating with nothing for them to be visible on.

Overall you show that you are capable of completing a lot of these exercises but you didn't follow instructions very closely, drew without confidence, and rushed. These issues held your submission back. I won't be moving you forward just yet because I'd like you to show that you understand what is being asked of you, and since the lessons build on each other if I let you go forward with these issues you'd just have even more issues in the future.

Please re-read the lesson, make sure you read all the instructions and know where your mistakes were. While re-reading through it please redo and submit:

• 1 page of organic forms with contours

• 2 pages of form intersections

• 1 page of organic intersections

Once completed reply to this critique with a link to your redos, I'll address any issues and move you on to the next lesson once you've shown you're ready.

Take your time, draw confidently, you've shown you can do this in the past so I know you can do better. I look forward to seeing your work.