Okay, so starting with the lobster demo I wanted you to draw along it because it shows the more updated approach, which has not been fully integrated into the lesson material. You can see that at every stage we are working with full forms rather than flat shapes, but most importantly we are wrapping the silhouette of each new form around the major masses (head, thorax, abdomen), and we are also layering them on top of each other

Moving on to your insects I want to call out a few things.

-First the way you are constructing your legs, remember to first lay down a chain of sausages, do not draw any flow lines or try to draw through them either, keep them simple, remember to draw the intersection between them. Once that structure is in place you can start to add the additional masses as I showed you on the demos that I linked above, this is the same approach that you will be using for your animals. I also want to quickly redirect you to this image which shows the better way to approach leg construction.

-I like to see that you tried to build the segmentation of your wasp as you did for the lobster, however try to give them a nice curve, try to imagine as if you were carving your pen along the surface of the form, this way you will start to get the little bits of nuance that help to sell the illusion of solidity that we are looking for.

-I am seeing some straight cuts in the head and thorax of your abdomen, given that we are working with fairly fluid representations of geometric forms, we don’t want to draw any straight lines, so always try to give each new form a nice curve and wrap their silhouette around the form they are falling on.

One thing that can help with this is to imagine how our mass would behave by itself in 3D space, with nothing else to touch our mass would have the shape of a ball, then as it start to press against the existing structure its silhouette start to change and begins to wrap around the other forms, this principle is shown here. Of course this is a process that you will get better at with more mileage, but don’t worry if you make any mistakes, they don’t take away from the things we learn by doing the exercises.

I’ll let you move on to lesson 5, given that it uses the same exact constructional approach, and you will have plenty of opportunity to address the issues I have raised here. Best of luck!!