Hey 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 you can work on to hopefully achieve better results in your future attempts.
Your arrows are looking good, my only real suggestion here would be to experiment more with foreshortening. By utilizing foreshortening on the arrow and the space in between curves of the arrow you can really sell the illusion of an arrow moving through 3D space. For more info on this concept you can read here.
The majority of your organic forms with contours are looking well done, there's a few spots where you get too complex. Just remember that our goal in this exercise is to keep both ends of the form roughly the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form as discussed here. Good job shifting the degree of your contour ellipses, just don't be afraid to push your contour lines further.
When it comes to texture you're focusing largely on outlines and negative space rather than cast shadows. This makes it difficult to use implied information and create gradients, this is important because gradients allow us to create focal points in more complex pieces that would overwhelm the viewer if we explicitly drew every detail. You can read more on these ideas 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 lessons.
When attempting the organic intersections exercise again, I'd suggest trying to create a simpler pile of forms. You do go a bit complex and your forms could wrap around one another in a way that makes more sense, right now some of them are just kind of floating. I'd also like you to pick a consistent light source and push your shadows further as well, right now they kind of just hug the form creating them.
Overall this was a really solid submission, you have some things to work on but you showed that you understand a lot of what this lesson is trying to teach. I'll be marking your submission as complete because I think with some extra mileage you'll have a better understanding of these exercises.
Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 3!
Next Steps:
Do previous exercises as warm ups.
Move on to lesson 3.
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