Hi there, I'll be handling your lesson 2 critique.

You're making good progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, below I'll be listing some things that will hopefully help you in your future attempts at these exercises.

• Your arrows are off to a good start, they're widening consistently as they get closer to the viewer. There are a few spots where you have some line wobbling occurring which may be due to hesitating and lack of confidence, as long as you remember to draw confidently you'll become more consistent. Keep experimenting with foreshortening as well, you're doing a good job utilizing it in the arrows themselves but you can also use it in the negative space between your arrow's curves to create a stronger illusion of an object moving through 3D space as you can see demonstrated here.

• You're close to keeping your organic forms with contours simple but there are a few spots attempts that get a bit too complex. Remember our goal when creating simple forms is to have both ends be the same size, and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. I'd like you to work on shifting the degree of your contours a bit more as well. 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 have a bit of a mix of results, in your sweetcorn attempt you do a good job focusing on cast shadows, but in attempts like your barnacles/veiny skin you end up focusing largely on outlines and negative space rather than cast shadows created by forms along the texture itself. This makes it difficult to create gradients with implied information which we could then use to create focal points in more complex pieces, by doing so we can prevent our viewers from being visually overwhelmed with too much detail. For more on the importance of focusing on cast shadows read here. I'd also like to quickly direct you to this image which shows that when we're working with thin line like textures if we outline and fill the shadow we will create a much more dynamic texture than simply drawing lines.

• If you feel like you don't fully grasp form intersections just yet don't worry, you're on the right track but 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. We'll be going over them more in the upcoming lessons. Your forms are looking solid and like they belong in a single cohesive 3D space, good work.

• Overall your organic intersections are looking solid, I don't have many complaints here you'll become more consistent and improve with more mileage. One thing I would like you to do in the future however is draw through all of your forms, we do so here for the same reasons we did with our boxes, it helps us develop our understanding of the 3D space we're trying to create. There are a few spots where your shadows are inconsistent in terms of shape or lighting but this is a great start, keep experimenting with different lighting angles and intensities.

This was a really solid submission, you have a few things to work on but I have no doubt you'll improve with more mileage. I'll be moving you on to the next lesson and marking your submission as complete.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 3!