Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your lesson 2 homework.

-Starting with the arrows section, you could try to fit in more arrows to get in more practice, you could be more bold with them and try to have more overlapping or twisting sections. I think it is also important to remind you that the negative space between zigzagging sections has to decrease as the ribbon moves further away. Overall this is a good and solid attempt, you will get better with practice.

-You are doing a good job in the organic forms with contours, you kept the shapes simple and easy to work with, but keep aiming to have both ends of the sausages to be of the same size and well rounded, as shown here

• Regarding your contour ellipses, you do a good job fitting them snugly within the sausage, and I can see that you were cognizant of the degree shifts of these, however I think you need more time to ghost and think about this, so you can draw them to the best of your ability.

• Your contour curves are well fitted too, and you are also conscious of the degree shifts, but sometimes they tend to look consistent, keep in mind that you don’t need to add many contours to an organic form, a few well placed ones can do a better job conveying the illusion of 3D.

-Moving on to the texture analysis, you should try to make the transition from dense to sparse more subtle. I think you do a good job focusing on cast shadows and not in outlines, and you show that your observational skills are developing. Don’t worry too much about texture as this exercise is only meant to get you acquainted with it.

-In the dissections you are making a good job but I can notice many instances where you are working with thin line like textures, so I want to quickly redirect you to this image. You also show that you're drawing from memory at times rather than giving yourself enough time to focus on your reference. Most of our time when doing exercises like this will be spent observing our reference and looking away for a quick second to add something to our page.

-I think you didn’t get as much from the forms intersections exercise as you could have, now it is important to remark that this exercise, just like the texture ones, is only meant to get you acquainted with how to start thinking in 3D and how to clearly define the relationships between forms. However I think that you missed important instructions,

• First of all avoid any outstretched shapes, you want to keep all of the forms roughly the same size, if your forms vary too much in their dimensions, it undermines the solidity of the whole set, when two or more forms are roughly the same size it implies that they are sharing a common place in space, so you don’t want to break this relationship by adding more complexity and having any stretched forms.

• You had to do one page that was filled with boxes only.

• Keep in mind that you have to fill the entire pages with forms.

-Finishing with the organic intersections, here you also want to avoid complexity in your forms, have your sausages simple and easy to work with, avoid any elongated sausage, and have them equally sized. I think that you did a great job with the cast shadows when wrapping around the sausage forms.