Hello LoadsOfSkeptic again, I hope you are well,

Starting with you sausages, you are mostly sticking to the characteristics of simple sausages, there are few rare cases where both ends of sausages aren't exactly both sizes. With your contours I can say that you are adding slightly too many of them. By the rule of thumb we want to use just enough contour to represent our form and also make them feel solid and 3d. For example if we have very straight sausages, we don't need that many contours to show how the form turns in space. So with what I said earlier we should use 1 or 2 contours right? Well no, contours also have a degree to them which tells us how it is turned to us(a viewer) in space https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/5/degreeshift. I don't think that you add too many contours overall, there are few cases where you didn't need to add asmany, but that's fine, we learn by exploring and failing. I can see that you understand how the degree shift in space very well, just keep in mind how many contours do you actually need to represent the form turning in space.

Additionally, your sausages and contours aren't as confident as I would want them to be. You are focusing more on accuracy than confident and smooth curves. Remember to take as much time as needed ghosting and then execute the curve with one smooth stroke.

Moving on to construction, as a whole your drawings feel pretty solid. You also apply the principles of construction fairly well. I can't tell how well you observe the photos since I have small arachnophobia so I don't want to look at the references. I am greatly sorry for that. But it isn't the focus of our exercises here. Even if our drawing doesn't match the reference, but it does feel like it occupies the 3d space. I would call it a win, since we used our construction properly.

There is couple of thing I want to point out

• You draw the legs of insects as just sausages. Simple sausages are just the basic underlying structure to work on. We want to build additional forms on top of them. These diagrams show a proper way how to build a complex leg with simple forms https://imgur.com/7b9rc9e and https://imgur.com/LjQ53ao

• Also when we add other additional forms, we want to think how they wrap around each other form in space, you aren't particularly bad at it, but it could see more work. You can see more of this practice in this ant head demo. We want to constantly think how the forms warp in a 3d space, because we are always drawing 3d mass here, it might look ugly as we have many lines clustered in a small space sometimes, but that's a exercise not a gallery or portfolio piece

• You often forgot to add an intersection contour when two sausages.

• Your linework could see more work. It is quite messy as it is now, you are better than at lesson 3 but I can still tell that your lines aren't confident and they wobble. Be sure to take as much time as needed to ghost. Remember to use your shoulder, if possible draw bigger. Drawing small limits us and makes things awkward. Also remember when making photos to capture the borders of your paper. As things are now, I don't know how much space each drawing takes.

• Lineweight, it did get better from last time, but it still could see more work. When we add a lineweight we want for it to be a confident and smooth line on top of previous line, we want to go over it, I believe that your work would get really better if you focus on your line making. Please look at this diagram for more info https://imgur.com/OHvr7Mb

All that said, I would love to give you a revision with a focus on linework and lineweight as I feel this is something that will greatly improve your ability to draw, so I will request 1 page of organic forms. While making those please keep in mind what I wrote about taking your time and being confident with each stroke. With your construction I feel that you use construction quite well, you don't make any major mistakes, just a bunch of minor ones that will get away in lesson 5 as it goes deeper in those concepts.

If you have any questions feel free to ask,

Have fun during your journey,