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

You're taking a lot of great steps towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, there are some things I notice that will help you achieve better results in the future so I'll be listing them below.

• In the arrows exercise you want to try and keep your arrows as smooth as you can, you have some bulging and wobbling occurring. You will also find it beneficial to experiment with foreshortening, you utilize it well with the arrow itself but don't make as much use of it in the space between the curves of the arrow as seen here. Your second page is an improvement in both of these regards so with more mileage you'll only improve and become more consistent.

• Your organic forms with contours are off to a good start, with more practice you'll be able to keep your forms simple consistently. Remember to aim at keeping both ends roughly the same size and avoid pinching, bloating or stretching along the form. Other than that I notice 2 things to work on, the first being your line confidence suffers a bit here, there are spots where your lines get quite stiff or wobbly. The second being to keep in mind that the degree of your contours will shift along the form. 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 the outlines and negative space rather than cast shadows created by the forms along the texture itself. This makes it difficult to create gradients by implying information which is incredibly useful when creating focal points. It also results in some of your textures appearing quite flat. These concepts are quite difficult and we don't expect you to nail it right away, but definitely give these exercises some extra time and try your best to build up your understanding of how these shadows behave. You can read more on these concepts here, you may also find this image useful, it shows how when dealing with thin line like textures it's often best to outline and fill them in rather than just drawing a line as it results in a more dynamic texture.

• If you feel like you don't fully grasp the form intersections exercise 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. The majority of your forms are looking solid, a few look like they may have been a bit hastily done but this could also just be a mileage issue. Just remember that whether your goal is to draw 1 box or 100 boxes you want to give each line the same amount of planning and confidence. Your hatching is a bit messy however, so do try and tidy that up, the previous line effort in terms of planning and confidence applies here as well.

• For your organic intersections exercise future attempts I'd recommend drawing larger as well as fewer forms to start off with. Your forms here tend to get over complicated and it hurts your sense of 3D space, keeping it simple will be beneficial when you try to tackle more complicated forms later on. You'll also find it beneficial to keep it simple when you attempt to create shadows, at the moment your shadows are mostly hugging the forms creating them rather than being cast and they're not behaving as if they had a consistent light source. I recommend starting off with your light source being either on the left or right side, trying to place your light directly above can be quite difficult to start off with.

Overall while you have things to work on, you're showing a good grasp of the majority of the concepts introduced here. I believe if you keep in mind the things mentioned above and keep working on these in your warm ups/free time you'll get better results and build a stronger understanding through the mileage.

With that said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

Keep doing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck!