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

You're making progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this lesson, I do see some things you can work on to improve your future attempts and I'll be listing them below.

• Most of your arrows are looking pretty good, when attempting 2 of them you didn't overlap your edges which result in them looking flat and like they're stretching as described here. Other than that be sure to experiment with foreshortening not only the arrow itself but also the space in between the curves of the arrow as discussed here.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise your sausages are close to being simple but there are a few here and later on that get a bit too complex. Remember you want to aim for both ends being roughly the same size, and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the length of the form as mentioned here. Other than that your forms and contour lines are looking confident which is great, you just want to keep in mind how you shift the degree of your contours. 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.

• When it comes to texture you're largely focusing on outlines and negative space rather than cast shadows created by forms along the texture itself. This makes it difficult for you to create gradients which are incredibly beneficial in larger projects where we want to create focal points, by doing so we can prevent the viewer from being overwhelmed by too much visual information. For more info on the importance of focusing on cast shadows and how we can use them to imply information you can check here.

• 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 going over them more in the upcoming material. While I'm glad to see you filled up your pages with lots of solid looking forms you did have one critical mistake here which is you utilized underdrawings and/or clean up passes as discussed here.

• When attempting the organic intersections exercise again in the future I'd recommend that you try and always draw forms crossing each other rather than stacking them in the same direction as the form below. By simplifying it in this fashion you will have an easier time wrapping the forms around one another, which not only has the benefit of building your understanding of 3D space but will also benefit your understanding of light and shadow as well. Currently your shadows are mostly just hugging the form creating them rather than being cast on to the form/ground below as mentioned here.

Overall while you do have things to work on, I believe you have shown an understanding of the core concepts being introduced here and you just need to experiment and gain some more mileage to fill in some of the holes of your understanding. With that said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups, give some extra time to texture and the organic intersections exercises to help better your future attempts and understanding.

Good luck in lesson 3!