To answer your question, we specifically draw "through" (around 2 times) our ellipses only, because it leans into our arm's natural desire to make elliptical shapes. For this same reason, you definitely don't want to draw through your sausage forms, because that'll start turning them more into ellipses instead.

You're definitely moving in the right direction here, and I can see you attempting to use a lot of the techniques I demonstrated in my last critique. There is however still plenty of room for improvement:

• When constructing heads, you will likely have an easier time starting with a smaller ball and then building up. For example, the hornet drawing ended up with a really big starting head mass, and so everything else you attached was really dwarfed in comparison. Instead, start with a smaller mass (even a normal sphere) and then try to build off it. See how that feels.

• When adding masses to your leg segments, you approached it in two ways - sometimes you'd wrap a couple different masses around, other times you'd just envelop the whole segment with another larger form. Definitely use the first approach - using multiple forms, and wrapping them individually around the segment in different places. The reason this is better, as shown here, is because each additional mass's silhouette makes more direct contact with the underlying structure, instead of ending up with the segment just floating loosely inside of it.

• Keep working on achieving simple sausage forms. I can see that you're trying, but because it's pretty tricky to draw them at such a small scale, especially when they're narrow, it can be quite difficult.

You'll continue to improve with practice, but I can see that you're aiming for the right things. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete, but keep the points I've raised here in mind as you move forwards.