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 decent start but there's a few quick things to point out here. You don't always overlap the edges of your arrows when you should and it results in your arrow flattening out as seen here. Your line quality isn't great here, you have quite a bit of wobbling occurring which shows you may not be drawing as confidently as you could be, and you apply line weight quite heavily to larges sections of your arrow rather than subtly on overlapping sections. Line weight is definitely something that will improve with mileage but here's an example of what we hope to aim for. Your hatching is also messier than it could be, every line you create you want to ghost and plan before executing confidently, currently your hatching just floats in the arrows rather than reaching both edges.

• You're close to keeping your organic forms with contours simple but do get a bit too complex. Our goal in this exercise is to create forms where both ends are the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. The biggest thing holding this section back is your line confidence, you have have wobbling, and squaring of edges occurring as well as your contours curves becoming a bit too stiff. In the future I'd like you to try and work on shifting the degree of your contours 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.

• In the texture exercises (more so in your dissections than your analysis) 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 mostly appear pretty solid and like they belong in a cohesive 3D space, as previously mentioned your line confidence and quality is what holds this section back.

• Outside of some wobbling your organic intersections are quite well done. Your sense of 3D space is developing and it shows in how your forms begin to wrap around one another. There are some spots that flatten out a bit too much but working on your forms will help you improve when trying this again. I'm also glad to see you pushed your shadows so that they cast rather than just hug the form creating them, this is a great exercise to build up your comfort with light and shadow so be sure to experiment with different lighting positions.

Overall while you do have some things to work on this was a pretty solid submission. As mentioned a few times the biggest issue is your line quality/confidence, and I definitely don't mean to just hammer that point into the ground but it is incredibly important and needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. Our accuracy will improve with mileage as long as we're drawing confidently so confidence is our first priority. If you need to break boundaries you've established to keep a line looking smooth than do so. I believe you can address these issues in your warm ups so I'll be moving you on to the next lesson.

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