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 good start, the biggest thing you need to work on here is your consistency. You have moments where your lines lose confidence and become quite stiff and wobbly as well as spots where your arrows change width suddenly. Ours arrows need to widen consistently as they move closer to the viewer or they begin to appear like they're stretching which hurts their solidity. I'd also like you to experiment more with foreshortening, by utilizing it in both 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 you can see demonstrated here.

• You're getting pretty close to keep your organic forms with contours simple, with a bit mileage you'll be achieving it. Remember our goal with these forms is to have both ends be the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length as discussed here. Confidence issues exist here as well in some of your contour curves, they end up being squared and stiff rather than smoothly curved. Just remember that accuracy will improve with mileage and our first priority is confidence, if you need to break the boundaries you've established for now that's fine because you'll keep your lines within the boundaries as you get more comfortable. I'd like you to work on trying to shift the degree of your contours a bit more 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 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. Overall your forms here appear mostly solid and like they belong in a single cohesive 3D space, good work.

• You have some solid attempts at the organic intersections exercise, I just have a few suggestions that will help you in your future attempts. I'd like you to draw through all of your forms much like we did in earlier exercises, by drawing through our forms we build up a stronger understanding of how all these forms rest in 3D space. This isn't to say your sense of 3D space is bad, your forms are beginning to wrap around one another believably but drawing through your forms will help speed up your understanding. The issues with your organic forms mentioned earlier are present here so tackling them will help here as well (line confidence, shifting degrees). Some of your shadows are starting to cast nicely, but others are hugging he form creating them and not behaving as consistently as they could. I'd suggest simplifying your form piles a bit more and experimenting with different lighting angles as this is a great exercise for building up an understanding of organic form as well as light and shadow before moving on to more complicated pieces.

Overall this was a pretty solid submission, you have some things to work on but I believe as long as you really put in your best effort at drawing confidently you'll improve with more mileage in your warm ups. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.

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