Hi Wifu4Lifu, I've checked your submission.

Starting out by your sausages, you are doing a good job taking into account the charasteristics of simple sausages, there are some slip ups here and there, but you will get better at them with time. You are also doing a great job by changing the degrees of your ellipses, the only thing I have for advice on this exercise is that you should invest just a little more time on ghosting so you can fit more snugly your contour curves. Remember that we are pursuing the illusion that these lines are running along the surface of the form, so we don't want them floating loosely inside our forms!

Moving onto your insect constructions, you did a really good job with this constructions- You are applying the sausage method very accurately, and your forms feel like I could extend my hand and grab them. Though, there is still room for some improvement, so you can keep going on the right path.

The most important thing here is to remember that we are trying our best to maintain 3d forms in a 2d surface, this means that it's very easy to make mistakes and undermine the solidity of our constructions. That's why we need to limit the kind of marks that we allow ourselves to make, sticking certain rules.

One of this rules is to avoid trying to alter the silhouette when adding new 3d forms to our structure. It;s pretty common to see people cutting into their forms or extending them with flat shapes to create more complex forms- The thing is, when changing the silhouette (2d shape), you don't alter the 3d form, you just break the connection between them, and ultimately, undermining your constructions.

Take a look at this construction your did, here you are adding complexity by extending over the silhouette with a flat shape!

Instead, we try to add new, enclosed, 3d forms and we then establish the relation they have with our construction, eiteher by contour curves like the organic intersections exercises, or by shaping the silhouette of the new form so it wraps around the existing forms (as shown here).

For examples, check out this beetle horn demo which you may compare with your beetle construction and this ant head.

One last thing, as I've already said, good job on applying the sausage method, though it is more like a first step. What we can do now that we have stated the flow and solidity of our legs, is keep adding forms to make more complex and interesting forms, like this and this. With this, we can take our constructions way further, like in this ant leg, and even in this dog leg (since this technique will be used on the next lesson)

You did a great job, I'm gonna mark this lesson as completed! Keep it up.

Also, glad to see you back at DaB!