So I'm getting the feeling that you may have read my last critique back in July, but not necessarily just before doing the work. There are a number of signs that point to this:

• You, for some reason, only drew one insect drawing, when the revisions asked for 2.

• When doing your organic forms with contour lines, you still encountered the same problems in your adherence to the characteristics of simple sausage forms

Aside from this, I've pointed out a number of issues for you to look at in these redline notes. Please read them more carefully this time, and reread them whenever you actually go to do the work. You should be rereading the instructions for any exercise immediately prior to doing it - that goes for the organic forms with contour lines too. Just because you've done it before doesn't mean that your memory of what you need to focus on is going to be perfect.

There is progress here, but you're still falling short in a number of areas, and are struggling with a lot of things, as I've pointed out in those notes.

One thing to especially keep in mind with your insect constructions is that you seem to be aiming for a really oversimplified version of the thing you're drawing, rather than attempting to draw what is actually in front of you. This suggests to me that you may not be looking at your reference frequently enough, and may be working more from memory much of the time (resulting in that oversimplification). Make sure you look at your reference frequently, constantly refreshing your memory and finding a specific form that you want to add to your drawing from the reference itself each time you go to draw a new mark.

Also, as mentioned in the redline notes, don't start with such a huge ball for the head. Construction is all about building things up - I guarantee you the ant's head wasn't perfectly spherical, so instead you should have started with a smaller ball and wrapped forms around it in order to build out the more specific form you wanted.

Same idea goes for the legs - we're just STARTING with a chain of sausages, but that is just to build a base structure or armature. We then go back in and wrap forms around that structure to build out bulk where it's needed, as shown here, here, and even here in the context of a dog's leg (because this technique is still to be used throughout the next lesson as well).