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I attempted to place more emphasis on making each ellipses bigger or smaller than the other, to avoid what happened there. https://imgur.com/a/dk9bfbu

Here are my 6 additional animal drawings, apologies for not submitting properly the first time (I replied with this further down the thread).

I have drawn 6 additional animals here. I made sure to employ the sausage method for the legs and keep in mind not to totally envelop them. I also cut back on internal fur texture, but still tried to employ it to emphasize certain tuft areas (this may have led to a little trouble with the corgi, admittedly).

If I may ask for a little extra help, what should I do in the case a leg seems to be "one thing" (I started looking for references and this rat's visible feet do not appear to have visible knees)? With a longer-legged quadruped I understand my approach should be draw the "shoulder" for the leg, draw the sausage for the upper leg, the sausage for the lower leg, and the foot, but what I'm seeing looks more like a single link between the foot and shoulder. I can see that the conventional approach works in the rat demo, but the knee isn't so present in cases like this image.

I'll try to dial back on the fur/texture, though maybe there's something about "balancing" the drawing I'm missing; sparse areas next to detailed ones looked off, and in my elephant drawings in particular I still have a gut feeling I was forgetting or not quite getting some wrinkles even though my problem is really the opposite. I didn't altogether forget the texture/decoration distinction, I was trying to give a sense of what fur might feel like and thiner strokes seemed appropriate for the capybara at least (the silhouette-breaking tufts were also part of this, I thought they would convey a sort of fluffiness or thickness).

Oh, very sorry about forgetting that somehow. This time I made sure to curve the contours with the facing of the forms, overshoot the curves and draw a minor axis curve through each form. https://imgur.com/a/rjK1EiH

It looks like I misinterpreted how to apply contour lines, hence why every form I drew had its ends going away from the viewer; I thought it was wrong to have a contour at an end curve the opposite of the way the end goes, or to have all contours for a form curving the same way. In that light I made an effort to overshoot and keep in mind the heading of the organic forms, though I think my ellipses degrees may have suffered somewhat. https://imgur.com/a/xa1UhFN

Here are my reattempts, for the organic intersections I tried to focus more on angling the shadows with a light source and stretching them down forms but ended up with issues in their own right there: https://imgur.com/a/lWUq7YC

I think much of my problem is I haven't figured out how to draw organic forms "head-on", only really from the side, hence I had problems drawing those perpendicular to lengthwise forms.

On the subject of textures I'd like to say I was using that technique for drawing line-like narrow shadows, otherwise I had many issues I hope to remedy with the 25 textures challenge, though I feel my understanding is so lacking I'd need some help in that regard.

Here are my reattempts: https://imgur.com/gallery/qthiIDW

I tried loosening up on my ellipses to get them more property rounded (at the expense of generous overlapping), but I'm not sure it worked so well; I'm gonna prioritize these in warmups going forward. I feel like my overlapping lines are a little less wavy, though it's still absolutely there unfortunately.