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

Your arrows are off to a great start, they're looking smooth and confident. There's 2 things I'd like to point out you could do to improve them however. The first is that you want to make sure you're applying foreshortening when it comes to the negative space between each curve of the arrow, when it's far away the gap between 2 edges of the curve will be small and as it gets closer to the viewer that gap will widen, as seen here.The second thing I have to point out about them is that you can apply foreshortening to your hatching as well. The closer to the inner fold of the arrow you'll have more tightly packed lines and as it straights out and moves away from the fold they'll have more space between each line, make sure that the line extends to the opposite edge as well. Overall great job the hatching detail is a small one but can be fun to experiment with.

Your organic forms with contours are looking nice and simple which is great, most people tend to over-complicate them. My only real criticism here is that you want to make sure the degree of your contours shift along the form, the further from the point nearest to us will see the contour begin to widen. 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.

Honestly your texture analysis is incredibly well done and you clearly paid attention to your reference quite a bit to achieve the detail you did. The only thing you need to work on with this exercise is to pay more attention to the gradient you're attempting to achieve, it doesn't really blend from the thick black line or to the lightest point as smoothly as it could. You can read more about the concept [here.] (https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/6/notransition)

When it comes to the texture dissections your attention to detail is still definitely there. There's only 1 issue with this section and it's the same as in the analysis exercise really. Your control of density suffers in places like loop carpet where you should be relying on filled shadow shapes creating gradients rather than outlines.

Your form intersections are constructed well, and you managed to keep the proportions of each form consistent with each other resulting in a solid composition. It's good to see you attempt to draw the intersections as well, while this exercise is difficult it's 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 later material. Good work.

Lastly we have your organic intersections these are mostly well done, you do try to over-complicate some of your forms which results in them being squished but for the most part you showed you have a grasp of how these are behaving in 3D space with each other while wrapping around one another.

The only thing I'd suggest here is that even though it's not shown in the lesson, that when you attempt this exercise again as a warm up try to draw through all of your forms. It does create a bit of visual noise but like when working with boxes if you draw through your form so you can see it in it's entirety it helps you build your understanding of 3D space in ways that will help if you were to want to rotate this pile of sausages as an example.

Overall you did a great job through this lesson, yes there were a couple of mistakes here and there but you showed that you have an understanding of the core concepts and I have no doubt that if you take the advice given above and with some extra mileage you'll see improved results in no time.

One last thing I'd like to note is that you mention using your wrist, when it comes to textures specifically your wrist can be beneficial when trying to get stiff precision in smaller textural marks. This is kind of the one spot where we won't hold it against you for using your wrist so don't stress too much. When it comes to your forms and larger shapes however try to use your shoulder whenever you can.

Anyways, great job I have no problem moving you on to lesson 3. Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups, don't grind things because even if you think they're bad (like you claimed.) they're probably totally acceptable as long as you put in your best effort. We don't expect perfection, we're just looking to see that you understand the concepts and once you do mileage will help carry you the rest of the way.

Good luck in lesson 3!