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

You're making good progress towards grasping a lot of the concepts introduced in this lesson, I'll be going over some spots I notice you could improve down below.

• Your arrows are looking nice and smooth. I only have 2 quick notes for you here, you want to make sure you don't get and pinching or bulging along the form of your arrow, you want it to scale consistently and not stretch. You also did a good job trying you use foreshortening when it came to the arrow itself, but you could experiment with foreshortening the space between the curves more, you can read more about this concept here.

• When it comes to organic forms with contours you did go a bit too complex, you want to make sure both ends of your sausage are the same size and you avoid pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form. For a reminder of what makes a simple sausage look here. You also want to make sure your shifting the degree of your contours along the length of the form. 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.

• I can see that you're wrestling with the concepts of the texture exercises, you getter closer to achieving the goal in some attempts than others. You tend to focus on outlines and negative space rather than considering what cast shadows would be created from forms along the texture, this makes it harder to create a proper gradient and forces you to explicitly draw detail rather than being able to imply it. You can read more about this concept here. This exercise is difficult and often takes a lot of experimentation and mileage before people get comfortable with it, so don't stress this was mainly an introduction to the concept. You may also find this image helpful, it shows how when drawing thin line like textures if we outline a shape and fill it in it results in a more dynamic looking image than just a line.

• Your form intersections are decently constructed and I'm glad you attempted to draw the intersections themselves. Like texture this exercise is mainly meant to be an introduction to a concept and if you don't fully grasp it try not to stress too much. Right now the only goal is 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 intersections more in upcoming material.

• As for your organic intersections your sausages are well drawn, but in terms of the actual exercise you were a bit off in your attempt. The goal is to have your forms rest on top of one another, wrapping around each other in 3D space, if you look at your attempt closely you'll notice that the majority of your forms are actually eating into one another or would be floating in a way that wouldn't be stable in terms of an actual pile. You tried to correct this with shadows that are largely hugging your forms rather than being cast on to one another in a way that makes sense (because they can't really make sense in this case.) When trying this again in the future I'd recommend trying to lay your forms on one another perpendicularly as it's much easier to have forms wrap around one another than trying to stack them . With a bit more consideration to how these forms behave in 3D space and some more mileage I'm sure you'll grasp this exercise in no time.

Overall this was a solid attempt at the lesson, you do have stuff to work on clearly but we don't expect perfection. With more mileage I'm sure you'll build a stronger understanding of the concepts taught here so make sure you keep doing previous exercises in your warm ups.

I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3.

Good luck!