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 but you lines are looking a bit messy here. We don't want to be redrawing our lines and when we apply line weight we want to be doing so subtly in areas like overlaps to help make them a bit clearer, check here for some things to look out for when applying line weight. There are some moments where your arrow's width becomes inconsistent but with more mileage this will improve. I'd like you to keep experimenting with foreshortening as well, by utilizing it in the arrows themselves as well as the negative space between their curves you can create a stronger illusion of an object moving through 3D space as you can see demonstrated here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your forms are getting a bit too complicated. When creating forms we want to try and keep both ends the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the forms length as discussed here. When it comes to your contours your ellipses remain confident but your curves stiffen up which shows that there's some hesitation here, remember to always draw confidently. I can see you're trying to shift the degree of your contours but you can push them a bit more, keep experimenting. 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're 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 here are looking solid and like they belong in a single cohesive 3D space, good work.

• Your forms in the organic intersections are an improvement over the previous organic forms but keep working on them with the advice given above. Overall your forms are starting to wrap around one another which is great and shows that your sense of 3D space is developing, with more mileage you'll become more consistent. Your shadows however are very inconsistent and don't behave as if they have a single light source in mind. I recommend pushing your light to the top left or right corner of the page to start off with, it's easier to work with than directly above.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, I'd like to make sure your organic forms are looking solid first as they will be built upon with more concepts in the upcoming lessons.

Please complete:

• 2 pages of organic forms with contours

Once you've completed them reply to this critique, I'll go over them and address anything that needs to be worked on and move you to the next lesson once you've shown you're ready.

I look forward to seeing your work.