Hi Teh_Stamper! I'm Tonygotcakes and I'll be giving feedback on your L2 submission.

1. Organic Arrows

You have done a good job exploring a variety of arrow shapes and they would have sold the illusion of depth very nicely. I use the phrase "would have sold" because the way you use hatching undermines the work that you put into the arrows. Otherwise, it would have been a solid submission.

You can imagine the light source for every arrow is in the same position as the viewer. As the light travels to an arrow, it will hit the bigger/closer section and block the section behind from receiving the light, which results in the cast shadow. The 1st page - bottom left corner arrow for example, have the hatching conflicted to what I describe. The 1st page - top right corner arrow is even harder to read because the hatching makes it confusing to look at. For the 1st page - bottom right corner arrow, although the hatching is in the correct place, the overshooting undermines the effect that hatching is trying to create. I have some tutorial on how to figure out the correct sections to do hatching in case you are interested in having a look.

In this exercise, we are supposed to draw an arrow with consistent width from start to end in 3D world. This arrow is heavily affected by foreshortening, therefore when we capture it in 2D surface, the section closer to the viewer will be bigger and vice versa. The 2nd page - top left corner arrow shows that the sections farther to the viewer are miles bigger than the arrow head. The arrow below that has the second section appear smaller than the first section. The first section stays behind the second and as a result, it should be smaller than the second due to foreshortening. The 2nd page - the rightmost arrow in the middle has too consistent width and the space between each fold is also too uniform. Both size and the space between each fold should decrease in magnitude for this arrow.

2. Organic Forms

The shape of a sausage will either be simple or complicated. When a sausage is simple, it is made up of two balls of equal sizes and a tube of consistent width (see this image). Any sausage that doesn't have this shape is considered complicated (see the image accompanied in this link). Some sausages in your 1st page have one end appear bigger than the other and the bottom right corner sausage of the same page is pinched in the middle as well. For some sausages of the 2nd page, the spine of them forms an S curve, which is too complicated for what we are aiming for. The line work from your 2nd page is also wobbly as you focus too much on accuracy. Remember to apply ghosting techniques from Lesson 1 for every mark you draw to ensure they come out straight and smooth.

You draw the holes on either end of a sausage too small and only draw one round. Treat them as ellipses and go over them 2-3 rounds as per instructions (1 round + 1-2 extra rounds over). You should draw them bigger as well to make it easier to apply the proper technique. Although degree shift of contour ellipses & contour curves is coming along nicely, some of them do not align well with the body of sausages (see 1st image and 2nd image).

3. Texture Analyses & Dissections

You follow the instruction properly for Texture Analyses as you take time observing and writing down notes to help you understand the textures. There is also a nice transition from dark to light as well for the 3rd panel of each row. However, I think you can push the transition even further because shadow shapes at the far right of a panel still look big and "tightly packed" together. Besides that, you do not take your time to fill in shadow areas properly as there is still a lot of gaps inside and sometimes your mark overshoot outside of the shape which makes the shape a bit chicken-scratchy and unclean.

Moving on to dissections, you have done a good job breaking the silhouette (for corn leaves however, you leave a bit of gap on the silhouette) and wrapping the texture around the sausage nicely (I think the exception is armadillo skin as the texture doesn't follow the contour of the sausage). However, sometimes you capture form shadow of the texture, as apparent on pineapple leaves and cactus. For tin can, the blackness you describe is not cast shadow and does not represent the true texture of it. You can think of textures as all the bumps and holes we feel when we glide our hand/fingers on the surface of a material. When you draw black areas, you are drawing shadow that those raises cast on the surface behind (see this image). A proper way to capture the texture of tin can is to draw the thick horizontal shadow that spans across the contour of the can (see this image).

4. Form Intersections

Your pages show that you aren't plotting before drawing as apparent on the back corner of some boxes and the box at the top left corner of page 4. Every time you draw a straight line, follow every step introduced in Lesson 1 (plotting -> ghosting -> executing). Each step is as equally important as the other so don't skip anything.

In this exercise, there are two important factors to keep in mind: (1) keep your form equilateral as all objects should fit snugly inside a cube or anything close to a cube and (2) all objects should have shallow & consistent foreshortening rate. Take page 1 for example, most of your boxes are too rectangular & the foreshortening is too dramatic. You should apply hatching & line weight in a similar approach to the box challenge as well. From the same page, hatching lines should touch the frame instead of leaving a gap in between and line weight should stay on the silhouette of a box instead of the legs of the initial Y. Some line weight looks chicken-scratchy as well.

5. Organic Intersections

Just like Organic Forms, you should keep the sausage form simple (see this image). Some sausages don't have enough support and will fall off. You also don't draw through forms for some sausage (for example, 1st page - top sausage: the tail of it dissapears behind another sausage). Your linework here is a bit wobbly and you could have employed more space for the exercise as well.

This wraps up my critique on your submission. If you have any answer, feel free to ask and I'll try my best to answer them.