Heya Bipolarcookie. Congrats on finishing lesson 2! I'm Strauss and would be pleased to critique your work, hope that they can help you one way or another on your artistic journey :D! .

I’ll divided this into 5 major sections, let’s get into it:

Organic Arrows

• First, with arrows section, your lines are being executed smoothly and confidently. You also made some great attempt at making the arrows bigger/smaller towards/away from the viewer (this is very important since we want to convey perspective), plus, the subtle adding of line weight in overlapping areas also help strengthen the illusion of 3D space we’re trying to make.

• But take a look at this image, remember that not only did the size of the arrows have to change, but the negative space between each fold has to also change adhere to it, too. I can see you actually apply this in some of your arrows, I just want to remind you, since this is an element that people tends to overlook.

Organic Forms with Contours

• Now moving into the organic forms with contours ellipses exercise, you’re doing great with confident lines. You’re also sticking to simple sausage forms which is nice, since we don’t want to end up with forms that are too complex, as being said by Uncomfy. For contour ellipses, I can see that you're intentionally shifting the degree of your ellipses with an awareness as to how they rotate and moving through space, the ellipses are also fit in snugly/tightly within the sausage. Good job.

• The contour curves are also beginning to wrap around believably on the surface of the forms, but they barely changing degrees, keep in mind when you decided to use this exercise for future warm-ups. One way to help with this is to try using the ghosting method with more consideration.

I also want to note that contour curves is a double-edged sword. Granted, it’s a very useful tool to describe how a form sits in 3D space, but it can easily work against us by flattening our drawing and makes it hard to read, so use them wisely and sparingly, and make sure to keep experimenting.

Textures

• Textures Analysis: Very good, I can see a smooth and seamless transition of dense/sparse in your work. You also able to identify and distinguish between cast shadow and form shadow, and apply them in your analysis, which is consist mostly of cast shadow and clean, implicit mark-making.

• Dissections: Great attempt at minding, respect the curvature of the sausage forms, and wrapping the textures around them logically. You also take every chances you got to break the silhouette of the forms, makes them easier to read. Silhouette-breaking is a super useful tool to help convey the texture better and makes it look more believable/realistic.

• But, you start to fall off a bit at this one, unlike Texture Analysis where you perform a great deal of understanding and comprehension of cast shadow and implicit mark-making method, you're now focusing largely on outlines, explicit mark-making and negative space rather than cast shadows created by forms along the texture itself. Please keep in mind that the technical knowledge that we’ve learned in Texture Analysis also apply with Dissections and later lessons.

Form Intersections

• Now moving on to the form intersections, you have drawn your forms in a way that they seem to be sharing the same cohesive, believably 3D space. Good job. It’s very normal to feel like you’re not really comprehend this at its core, since this exercise is only meant to introduce to you about forms and how they can interact and intersect with each other, like puzzle pieces. We will have a lot of opportunities to tackle this again in later lessons so no worries.

Organic Intersections

• And for the last one, organic intersections, you did a great job demonstrating your understanding of 3D dimension. Lines are confident with pre-planned decision and consistent foreshortening ? make these forms seem to be exist in the same space.

• Though, you’re not drawing through forms. You should always draw through forms, just like the form intersections exercise. This isn’t mentioned in the instruction, so it’s reasonable that you do not acknowledge and choose not to apply this technique in your assignment, but you have to know that some of these material written on this website is a bit…old, and is in the progress of reconstruction. Next time, try to draw through forms when you’re using this as your warm-up exercise.

• When it comes to your shadows, you're pushing them enough so that they cast onto the forms below rather than just hugging the form that creates them, the shadows also appear to be following a consistent light source, so nice job.

Overall, you did great! You can now head to Lesson 3. Using (any) Lesson 2 homework as warm-ups is recommended. Good luck.