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.

• In the arrows exercise as well as later on in the lesson I notice you're still having some issues with line confidence, remember that accuracy will come with mileage but we really need to make sure we're drawing confidently in order to draw smooth lines without wobbling. As for your arrows themselves, you're off to a good start but you want to keep an eye on the flow of your arrows. We want to make sure that their width remains consistent as it widens/narrow as it gets closer/further from the viewer to maintain their solidity. I'd also like you to experiment more with foreshortening when trying this exercise again in the future. By utilizing foreshortening in the arrows themselves as well as the negative space between their curves we can create a stronger illusion of an object moving through 3D space as demonstrated here.

• You're doing a pretty good job keeping your organic forms with contours simple, just remember our goal is to keep both ends the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. You did a good job keeping them simple here but got a bit complex in later exercises. Your confidence issues are your biggest weakness in this exercise, you have some squared edges forming along your forms as well as stiff and wobbly contours, these issues are likely caused by you slowing down rather than maintaining a smooth confident motion. I'd also like you to try and work on shifting the degree of your contours more. 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. Besides some wobbling your forms here are looking pretty solid, and like they could belong in a cohesive 3D space, good work just have to remember to draw confidently and these will look even better next time.

• Your forms in the organic intersections are looking more confident which is great, your contours could still use a bit of work though. Overall though this exercise is looking like it's off to a good start, your forms could wrap around one another a bit more believably in spots but they do appear to be wrapping around one another which is a good sign that your understanding of the 3D space you're creating is developing nicely. This is a great exercise to develop this 3D awareness and also your understanding of light and shadow before moving on to more complex pieces so be sure to keep experimenting with lighting positions and pushing your shadows further.

Overall this was a pretty solid submission, you do have some things to work on (texture and line confidence) but you're demonstrating that you are trying to understand the concepts introduced here you just need more mileage. I'll be moving you on to the next lesson.

Be sure to keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups, give some extra attention to textures and try your best to focus on cast shadows, good luck in lesson 3!