Starting with your organic forms, these are looking great in general! I can see that you're adhering to the characteristics of a simple sausage as explained here in the instructions although there is still some deviation here and there. Remember that sausages are two balls of equal size connected by a tube of consistent width. You sometimes end up with a bit of pinching or ends that are not equal in size but they're not far off.

I also noticed you contour curves have the same degree throughout the length of the sausage on some of them. Remember that, as discussed in the lesson 1 ellipses video that these should get wider as it moves away from the viewer along the sausage form.

Moving onto your insect constructions, overall I think you've done a pretty good job on them. I'm pleased to see that you're building these solid three dimensional forms in phases, defining how these forms sit in space and their relationships among one another. There are a few things I want to call out though.

Starting with the head of this cockroach wasp you showed, I've marked in red where you attempted to extend the silhouette by adding flat open shapes. There are other examples of this, namely here where you attempted adding spikes to the legs of this cricket but did so without considering how it wraps around the leg and it reads as flat.

Instead, if we want to change what's already there, we should introduce other three dimensional forms and establish the relationships between the additional masses either by defining the intersection with contour lines (as mentioned in lesson 2's form intersections) or by having them wrap around one another, where the presence of one form displaces the other. You can see this in practice in this beetle horn demo and this ant head demo.

I also recommend you look at the two demos on the top of the informal demos page, specifically the shrimp demo and lobster demo. These show how we can build up the insects in stages and see how the additional forms sit in space. This is all about accepting that everything we see is three dimensional and getting the viewer to believe in the lie we are trying to create. In the context of these demos, i really liked how you went about adding the plates on this fly.

As a whole, i feel like these are things you understand. But by more clearly defining them, you should be able to move forward with more solid constructions.

Moving onto the topic of legs, I noticed you seemed to employ different strategies here. While not uncommon for students to be aware about the characteristics of the sausage method, but instead they decide not to adhere to them because the legs they're looking at don't actually look like a chain of sausages to them. In your case though, it seemed like you were aware but simply strayed from it.

The sausage method as a base structure allows us to capture the solidity with the gestural nature of legs. Once in place, we can lay in additional masses to convey the complexities as shown here, here, this ant's leg, and even in this dog's leg. This'll become relevant coming into the next lesson where we stack forms on top of one another (as per the organic intersections exercise from lesson 2).

I've also noticed you overusing contour curves along the legs. Contour curves can yield diminishing returns over time where the first curve is more impactful, the second even less so, and so on. Especially on the legs, where each curve you place makes them more stiff and rigid. It takes away the gestural qualities that it has going for it. For this reason, we only place them along the joints. This way, the legs can still feel solid while maintaining the fluid gesture.

Lastly, there is an issue with your line weight. I'm seeing heavier marks along the silhouette on some of these. Remember that line weight shouldn't be used loosely like that. It's a tool with a specific use, meant to be applied locally to clarify overlaps of one object over another.

Overall, i feel like you've done a good job on it. You seem to understand the relationships between the forms you're creating. Just a few things to help steer you in the right direction. I'm marking this as complete.