Organic Arrows: Good job! You spaced out the waves between your arrows and varied the size to indicate foreshortening and perspective.
Organic Forms: While these are really well done, both pages share two significant errors regarding the instructions. First off, you were supposed to draw simple sausage forms (view https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/contourlines again). You these long, complex forms, some of which are completely uneven on one end and have weird indentations. On your contour curves page, the form on the left side has contour lines that are too shallow and do not accelerate towards the edge of the form. As a result, the form looks flat and not as three dimensional as the others. Your ellipses should be changing in degrees gradually from one end of the form to the other (appearing fuller at the ends and becoming thinner and thinner at the center as we are looking at a circle from the side sort of). The degree change is kind of unclear at certain parts. While there is some three dimensionality to these forms, you're missing out on the extra layer of volume you can get through practicing these degree shifts. I recommend reviewing the page for this HW exercise and doing it again.
Texture Analysis: Well done. You definitely put time into observing the textures of these materials. And you follow the transition from dense to sparse.
Dissections: Great work. Your textures are all thought out and deliberate, proving you spent time observing your reference. My only critique here is that you don't mind the curvature that much, and some textures kind of emerge from the side of the sausage to its rounded edge kinda flatly. Our textures in this exercise behave like paper wrapped around a tube, they follow the tube all around it.
Form Intersection: Awesome work. You could have added more intersections with your forms, but that was optional and you still did what the assignment asked and avoided all major mistakes.
Organic Intersection: You are making the same errors with your contour curves as the start
You definitely understand the material and I can tell you put in a good effort. But I still think you should revisit the Organic Forms exercise. You'll get the hang of it in no time and then the future lessons will be easier for you. Good luck
Next Steps:
Organic forms with contour forms and ellipses.
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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