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 good start, no major complaints here but I do have one suggestion. I'd like you to experiment with foreshortening some more, you are using it but don't push it very much especially in the negative space between the arrow's curves. If you take a look here you'll see that by utilizing it in both areas we can really sell the illusion of an object moving through 3D space.

• In the organic forms with contours exercise you're close to creating simple forms but get just a bit too complex at times. As mentioned here our goal is to create forms where both ends are the same size, and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length. When drawing contours your ellipses get a bit stiff rather than remain confident, I get the impression you may be slowing down to try and keep them in the form but remember confidence comes first, accuracy will come with mileage. When creating contour lines you want to try and push them a bit further so they hook back into the form as shown here. As a final note keep trying to 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.

• 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. Your forms here look solid and like they belong in a cohesive space, great work.

• Your contour lines are hooking back into your organic intersection forms more which is an improvement. Your forms do get a bit complex here which hurts their solidity, and they don't always wrap around one another as much as they could, but with more mileage I believe you'll build up a strong understanding of the 3D space you're creating. Your shadows aren't always being cast or behaving consistently, I'd suggest pushing your light source to the top left or right corner to start off with as it's easier than directly above. This is a great exercise for building your sense of 3D space with organic forms as well as building up a basic understanding of light and shadow so keep experimenting in your warm ups.

Overall this was a solid submission, you have a few things to work on but I believe you'll improve with mileage and show that you understand what is being asked of you in this lesson so I'll be moving you on to the next one.

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