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

You're taking some good steps towards building your understanding the concepts introduced here, I do see a few spots where you can improve and I'll be listing them below.

• Your arrows are off to a good start, I only have 2 quick notes for this section that I'd like you to keep in mind when attempting this again in the future. Remember that we can foreshorten both the positive space (the arrow itself) and the negative space (the space between edges of the curves) to help create a stronger illusion of 3D, you're doing well foreshortening the positive space, but are a bit more inconsistent with the negative. You can read more about these concepts here. The second thing I'd like to point out is that your hatching could be cleaner, remember that we want to ghost and confidently draw every mark we make, that includes hatching lines and we want the line to reach both ends of arrow.

• You did a great job in keeping most of your organic forms with contours really simple, a lot of people tend to over complicate them which isn't the point of this exercise. Again I just have 2 quick notes for you here, the first being that your line confidence isn't as strong as it could be here, you have some noticeable wobbling occurring especially in your ellipses. Remember that accuracy will come with time, so if you're trying to slow down to keep them in the sausage form it's better to break the boundary a bit and have the ellipse be confident then have it woble. The second thing I'd like you to experiment with is pushing your contour lines a bit further. 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.

• Texture as well as the rest of the exercises in this lesson are meant to serve as an introduction to some difficult concepts, so if you felt like you struggled with this section at all don't stress too much. I will say that I can see your brain wrestling with the ideas here, and it does take a lot of experimentation to rewire your brain so it can cooperate. You had the tendency to focus on outlines and negative space rather than the cast shadows created by forms along the texture. There are a few spots where you were closer to achieving the goal though which is a good sign that you are grasping the idea, you just need more mileage to truly get a feel for what you're aiming to do. You can read more about the idea and benefits of focusing on shadows rather than outlines here. I'd also like to suggest that when doing this again in the future, to try and outline shapes and fill them in when working with thin line like textures. As you can see here. it helps the texture appear much more dynamic than if you simply just draw the line itself.

• In the forms intersections exercise you did a great job of constructing your forms and keeping them evenly proportioned. It doesn't appear you were totally comfortable trying to draw the intersections themselves, but it's good that you attempted to do so. Right now this exercise is 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 the upcoming material.

• Lastly we have your organic intersections, while you did keep your forms simple early on, you did go a bit too complex here and it hurt the solidity of some of the forms you created causing them to appear flatter than they could be. You will also find it beneficial to keep your forms simple when it comes to working with shadows, your shadows here aren't following a consistent light source which results in them not making much sense. In the future I'd like you to draw through all of your forms as well, just like how we'd draw the rear edge of the box even though we wouldn't see it we can draw through our forms here to gain a better understanding of where everything rests in 3D space.

Overall while you do have some mistakes to iron out this was a solid submission and I feel like mileage is what's needed the most. Keep practicing these exercises in your warm ups, maybe give some extra attention to your line confidence, texture and spend a bit more time planning your light source, if you keep these things in mind I have no doubt you'll see your quality of work improve. I believe you've shown an understanding of the core concepts in these exercises so I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3.

Good work and good luck.