Hello Aturia, thank you for responding with your revisions.

With regards to your comments: I do appreciate that you're having difficulty applying this feedback. If there is anything I've said that you don't understand please do ask questions and I will do everything I can to try to explain things and get it to make sense for you. If you do understand, but have difficulty remembering what to do, that is something I'm less well equipped to help with, in the scope of these written critiques. So you'll need to ask follow up questions to aid your understanding, or take whatever steps you need to at your end to be able to remember and apply the information that has been presented to you. I know you've read through the feedback repeatedly, but you can also try taking notes in your own words to summarise what you need to do.

If you have trouble breaking down your reference into simple forms, you can try what Uncomfortable shows in the lesson intro video, where he draws those basic forms directly on top of the reference image (I think it was a ladybird.) While this isn't something I would recommend relying on for every construction (it can become a crutch) it can be really helpful for understanding how to break down your reference into manageable forms.

No need to apologise. I'm not necessarily looking to have you improve to a particular standard, I'm looking to make sure that you understand the lesson material.

Starting with your Organic forms their shape is more consistent and you're placing ellipses on the visible ends correctly. I can see you're working on varying the degree of those contour curves too. This is a big improvement and I can see you're on the right track, well done. Keep practicing these exercises in your warm ups.

Continuing to your insect constructions you've done a good job of starting all your constructions with simple solid forms this time, good work!

Looking at how you're constructing your legs, I can see that you can use the sausage method correctly, just not consistently. I've marked on your work once again some places where you did well, and other places that could be improved here. I can see that you're perfectly capable but will need to stay focused so that you apply the method more consistently in future.

On the same image I've highlighted in red where you cut inside the silhouette of a form you had already drawn again. This diagram illustrates the various actions we can take on a sphere. For these constructions you should be making changes by adding to your forms.

While it's entirely possible to cut inside your forms correctly in 3D space, I'm advising students not to work subtractively at all when building up organic structures within this course, just because students tend to be prone to doing it wrong without realising, and then reinforcing 2D thinking instead. Sticking to working additively in 3D space will on the other hand be a lot harder to do wrong (as long as you're somewhat mindful of what you're doing), and will ultimately reinforce that 3D thinking and eventually help you subtract more effectively as well.

I wanted to point out that you did a good job of constructing the upper horn on your Hercules beetle in 3D. It would be even better if you used a contour line to explain how this horn attaches to the thorax in 3D space as I've shown in green.

For the lower horn I can see that you're trying to construct it as a 3D form, but you're trying to do too much with a single form. The more complicated a form is, the easier it is to accidentally make if flat. These constructions follow a step by step process, starting dead simple, and gradually adding complexity piece by piece. Don't worry about having too many construction lines, or your drawings being ugly, these drawings are all exercises, and their purpose is for you to learn.

Lastly, and I'm not entirely sure on this, so forgive me if these are just lines showing through from other drawings on the back of your page, or random bits of dirt, but it looks like you might have sketched some of these in pencil first. If this is the case, stop it. In your first round of critique I asked you not to use a clean up pass. When a student traces back over their lines it generally results in their marks becoming more hesitant and wobbly, and that wobbliness makes the forms less solid. It also changes your mindset from thinking in 3D back to concentrating on individual lines on the page. This hinders your ability to improve your spatial reasoning skills, switching your focus from where it needs to be to get the most out of these exercises, over to whatever personal goals you might have about whether the drawing "looks good" or not.

When you work on these exercises in the future, follow the instructions exactly as they are written, to the best of your ability and understanding. Review this video that explains how to get the most out of this course, and this video which explains the tools we use and why. This section explains why we don't use pencil for these exercises.

I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. At this point it doesn't look like further rounds of revisions will be helpful to you. The feedback you have been given here can and should be applied in lesson 5.

If anything that has been said to you here, or previously, is unclear, you are welcome to ask questions. Best of luck.