Hey GoodBoy! i'm gonna go over your work.

Starting by your sausages, good job on trying to draw them big while also maintaining a confident stroke. Though it looks like you are trying to stick to the characteristics of simple sausages, you are not quite there yet; your extremes look a little boxier and you are sometimes doing on side smaller than the other, so don't stop trying and remember to keep them circular and even! Also, try to push your contour curves to make the forms appear more round, right now if your look at your contours, they are looking a little flat, remember that this sausages are completely round! Talking about contour curves, one thing that I want you to start doing, is varying the degrees of your ellipses- Your contour curves represent a cross section that run along the form, in relation to the viewer; if that form starts turning away from the viewer, the degree of the ellipse will be narrower and if it starts facing the viewer, it will start widening up. By varying the degrees of this ellipses, you are creating a more solid illusion of depth! Here is a diagram explaining this.

Moving on to your insect constructions, I'm seeing that you are drawing confidently and big. Most of the time you are constructing them with the use of basic 3d forms, which is great, though in some cases you are flattening your constructions almost completely to a side view.

The first thing I want to talk about is that every single element you add to your constructions should be treated like a solid 3d and solid form in itself. A good example of you giving each form solidity is your spider construction, here, every element is solid and clear on how it's sitting on 3d space.

Now, because we are drawing on a page, we have a lot of freedom to do whatever mark we want on the page- This is not a good kind of freedom, since the page is a 2d surface, we are more likely to make mistakes and draw 2d shapes. That's why we have to really think through every mark we put down, since every 2d mark will undermine the solidity of our constructions and remember the viewer that it is just a flat drawing.

That's were the difference between a shape and a form comes into place; A shape is 2d, and a form is 3d, just that- Whenever we are constructing, we try to avoid shapes and use only forms, because as I've already mention before, shapes work against our forms, you cannot mix them. This is what is happening in a lot of your construction; I want you to take a look at your monkey hopper, here you are doing a great job with the head, torso and legs, but when you did the abdomen, it seems like it's completely flat, you tried to add some contour curves, but it didn't help. This happened also in your ant and butterfly.

What you should be doing instead is working additively- always making sure you are introducing new 3d enclosed forms to your structure and showing how they relate to each other, either by using contour lines where they intersect with each other (like in the form intersections exercise) or by wrapping them around the existing structure, like this. As I said, you've doing this in some cases, for example in your moth construction, in which you are believing that those are 3d forms and not just shapes on a page.

Though, this is not all- By creating a base structure of solid simple forms, you can keep on creating more complexity by introducing new enclosed forms! Here is an ant demo and a beetle horn demo from Uncomfortable himself, showing how he applies this concepts, making more complex forms by adding more forms! Also, I recommend you go back to the lobster demo, in which the essence of carefully adding 3d forms is explained step by step.

Now, one thing that called my attention is that you are not really applying line weight through a lot of your construction- Remember that this is a very important tool for after we are done with setting all our forms, to clarify how they sit and overlap with each other. This makes it more clear and easy to read, not only for the viewer, but for you, helping you to have a stronger belief of how your forms are solid and 3d.

One last thing, I'm noticing that you are clearly attempting to apply the sausage method for the legs as presented here, you are sometimes deviating from it from it in some cases- The purpose of this method is to capture both the gesture and solidity of the legs, while creating a base in which we can build on top on to add more complexity (like what we've been talking). Once the base is settle, we can create this structures by adding more 3d forms, like shown here, here, this ant leg and also this dog leg (you will found it this is a technique you will be using on the next lesson). Again, I wanna praise your ant construction, since in there you are also doing this with your legs!

Now, you did a very good job in this lesson, but I still want you to do one extra page, with just one construction in it, where your focus is creating a solid structure and building on top of it, don't worry, you can just build a little on top and that's it, since it can b hard. But the important thing here is to create, 3d solid forms!