Overall your work throughout this lesson is pretty well done. You've clearly put a lot of effort into understanding and applying the principles covered here, and while there is definitely room for improvement and things that I will point out, by and large you're moving quite well in the right direction.

Starting with your organic intersections, you're doing a pretty good job of establishing how these forms interact with one another in 3D space. Just two things to remember:

• Don't ever draw so small - it's not to your benefit at all, and it will make solving these spatial problems harder. One big pile in the middle of the page, taking up loads of space is far better than two small piles.

• To further the idea that this is a pile of sausage forms, don't forget that the ground plane exists beneath it. Be sure to cast shadows upon it to help ground the whole set of forms.

Moving onto your animal constructions, that point about avoiding smaller drawings comes into play with a number of these. For example, these ones feel visibly cramped, and while you've worked pretty well within those constraints, there's no reason to force yourself to work within such small areas. Always focus on giving the first of your drawings as much room as it requires, then if you think there's enough space to fit another, go for it. No harm in having just one drawing on a page, though.

I can see that you've made a fair bit of use of the additional forms to really flesh out your constructions as a whole. This is great to see, although there are some ways in which these can be improved. You can see some notes and diagrams on how to think about these additional forms here. The main point to keep in mind from those notes is the idea of where to keep those additional forms simple. The bear on this page for instance has a few forms along its back, and even though there's nothing actually pressing upon the tops of those forms, they still have curvature that adds complexity and undermines their solidity.

Another thing to avoid is how on the back of this one you've got a sharp corner on that additional mass for no reason, as explained here. As a side note there, you definitely didn't put any real effort into establishing actual feet for that one. I understand that certain parts of an animal may not be visible in your reference image, but there's no reason you can't grab another reference image of the same kind of animal to fill in the gaps.

When it comes to some of your head constructions, things appear to be a little hit-and-miss. For example, the moose especially looks off. There's actually a demonstration for a moose head on the informal demo page, here. Admittedly I think the small size of your drawing overall definitely contributed to that head not coming out great.

Looking at the two drawings on this page (the frog and komodo dragon), one thing that stands out to me is that it looks like you're redrawing the silhouettes of your forms. Remember that constructional drawing is not about creating a scaffolding and then recreating your "final drawing" on top of it. If the basic construction already establishes the forms you need, then you don't need to redraw them. If you want to add line weight, it's only going to be in certain limited areas (not tracing back over the whole form) to clarify specific overlaps only.

Admittedly I think that while you overall demonstrated pretty decent constructional skills overall, the hybrid - which usually tests one's grasp of form/construction in order to combine elements from different animals - didn't come out that well. I think the reason for this may have been two things:

• Again, drawing pretty small (only taking up half the page)

• I'm not seeing a lot of signs that you actually drew directly from reference. Even though we're inventing something new doesn't mean we can't pull most of our information directly from the reference images, just as we had been doing for the rest of the lesson.

While I am mostly pleased with your work, the fact that everything's really tiny tells me that I'm not actually seeing your best here. So, I'm going to assign a couple additional pages before I mark this lesson as complete.