Hi again Shady4Sketcher!

I've checked your submission,

Starting out by your organic forms, I'm seeing you are not varying the degrees of the ellipses of the forms, now this is similar to what I've told you about your branches, and it can also be applied to your organic forms to sell a better illusion of depth!

Your Insects in general look solid, which is pretty important. Though there are some things I want to touch on.

Seeing your legs I'm noticing that most times you are not really connecting them right, remember that you are supposed to make sausages start inside others and then use a contour curve to show the direction they are facing. I apologize for the lack of clarity in my explanation, Here is a demo on exactly what I mean.

Now, I'm also highlighting this problem because it builds up on to another problem that I also made when I did this lesson, which is not integrating the connection of the joints like the muscles of a human would be. This is something that I wasn't aware at all during the lesson, and it's a key element on your next lesson, so that's why I'm critiquing you about it. Here is an explanation on what I mean, also here is some extra examples to check out.

Remember that all of this connection and integration of joints has to be building on top of your forms just like the organic intersectons exercise!

Seeing the las beetle you construct it looks like you could use more contour curves, I'm seeing that you are not really taking full advantages of them most of the times, remember that they are really useful tools that will help you believe that your constructions are 3d! Here are some situations I think a contour curve could have helped you build upon your forms better!

One tip I would give you about cast shadows is to decide a direction from where the light comes, this will make the shadows look more cohesive and it will help you figure out where to put them!

I'm honestly not a texture expert so I can give you really basic advice on it: Remember that in order to texture add to the drawing, first you need a solid construction, I see this being an issue in your last beetle for example (sorry for picking on your beetle so much), Another thing is to apply texture in an implicit way, I cannot recommend more this video enough, it really explains some issues that you made in the really furry ant (I think it's the insect number 10).

You did a really great job during this lesson, though I'm not marking this lesson as completed yet, first I want you to make 1 more construction of an insect o arachnid of your own choice, focusing on the leg and joint construction method that we have already discussed. Don't even bother with textures, just try out building up some joints!