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

You're making a lot of progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, below I'll be listing a few things I see that you can work on to hopefully help you achieve better results in the future.

• Your arrows are looking really well done, I'm glad to see you're experimenting with foreshortening. My only real suggestions here are that your hatching lines could be a bit tidier, and that once you're comfortable hatching you can utilize foreshortening here as well. When hatching if you draw more frequent lines that are closer together in the inner folds of the arrow and draw fewer more spread out lines as the arrow begins to smoothen out you can give an even stronger impression of the arrow moving through 3D space.

• In the organic forms with contours exercises you're doing a pretty good job of keeping your forms nice and simple, there are a few where you do get a bit too complex however. Just remember that you want to keep both ends roughly the same size and avoid pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. I think you can also push your contours a bit further when trying to shift their degrees 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.

• You're off to a really good start with texture, you have a bit of a mix of results which is fine because each texture is it's own challenge. There are some attempts where it looks liek you're focusing more on outlines and negative space rather than the cast shadows (grass and rocks stick out) but there are also some attempts where you're doing a good job of capturing shadows. (elephant skin) Keep experimenting and building mileage and in no time you'll find texture more comfortable to work with, if you need a reminder on the importance of focusing on cast shadows rather than outlines you can read this, I'd also recommend taking a look at this image which shows how when working with thin line like textures we can create a more dynamic texture by drawing the shadow's shape rather than just drawing a line.

• If you feel like you don't fully grasp form intersections just yet don't worry, 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 working with them more in upcoming lessons. I will say that I do get the impression that some of your form sin this exercise may have been a bit hastily either due to line quality or just how their convergences don't line up as well as they could. Remember that whether you're drawing 1 form or 100 forms you want to give each line the same amount of planning and confidence.

• Lastly your organic intersections are showing that you're building up your sense of 3D space but there's still some work to do. A few forms don't wrap around one another as believably as they could, and your shadows could be pushed further but this is a good start.

Overall this was a really solid submission and while you have some things to work on I believe you just need more mileage with these concepts to truly grasp them. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

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