Hello I'll be handling the critique for your lesson 2 homework

Organic Arrows

-Starting with the organic arrows these are drawn with a good deal of confidence which has definitely helped you to capture the fluidity with which they move through space, you are also making some good attempts at the perspective of the ribbon as it gets wider as it gets closer to us.

The main thing you have to keep working on us the negative space between the zigzagging sections of the arrow, remember that it should get narrower as it moves further away, this principle is shown here, you are already moving in the right direction and your application of lineweight and hatching is good.

Organic Forms with Contours

-You are doing a pretty good job sticking to the characteristics of simple sausages avoiding any unexpected swelling or pinching throughout their length. There is still room for improvement so keep practicing, when it comes to the contour ellipses these are drawn with an awareness of how they change degrees as they move through space, they are also drawn with confidence and fit in snugly with the sausage.

The contour curves are also beginning to wrap around believably on the surface of the forms, but they are barely changing degrees, this is a mistake we want to avoid. The best strategy is to use the ghosting method to think about the purpose of each individual mark , the he task it is meant to accomplish and how you are going to achieve it best. It is also important to keep in mind that contour curves are a useful tool to describe how a form sits in space, but they can easily work against us by flattening or drawing, so use them wisely and sparingly.

Textures

-On the texture analysis I can see that you have achieved a smooth transition from dense to sparse and I can definitely see that you have relied heavily on the cast shadows rather than forms shading or explicit mark making, the stone texture is particularly well done.

-On the dissections you have kept up the good job and achieved some good gradients, I also like to see that you have drawn your textural forms while being aware of the curvature of the surface they are sitting on, and you are using every opportunity to break the silhouette. The only bit of critique I want to offer is that you slipped into form shading on your strawberry texture, and you relied heavily on the outlines on the bird feathers.

Form Intersections

-Moving on to the form intersections, you have drawn your forms in a way that they seem to be sharing the same 3D space, when it comes to the intersections themselves don't worry if you feel like you don't fully grasp them yet as this exercise is only meant to get you acquainted with thinking about the relationship between the forms we draw on the page, we will be revisiting this exercise on future lessons too.

Organic Intersections

-Finishing with the form intersections you have done a fantastic job, you have kept your forms simple and easy to work with which is a strategy to produce good results. I only have a few things to point out, first remember to draw through your forms, this is just an exercise in spatial reasoning and drawing through your forms will help you to better understand the concepts we are exploring here. Lastly, when it comes to the cast shadows try to push them a bit further so that they can act as contour lines, wrapping around the form they are falling on.

Okayyy, you have done a pretty good job on this lesson. I'll go ahead and mark it as complete