Your work has definitely improved, and I can see you making attempts to apply the points I raised, although I do still feel that you're underestimating how long each drawing should be taking you, and that is causing issues with a number of areas, from mark making, to following the demonstrations in their entirety.

Here are some notes on your dog - I've numbered them so they're a bit easier to process, and so I can address them briefly below:

• 1) I can see that you've made an effort to apply the informal head construction demo, although not in its entirety. As you can see here, the forehead was left undefined. While this is not a big concern, it does speak to how carefully you're going through the demonstrations. This is also the case in your tiger and cow.

• 2) I can see that you're trying to think through the shape of the eye sockets more, but you're not drawing those eye socket shapes in their entirety for some reason. This, like the first point, shows that you could definitely be taking more time to not only apply the techniques, but also to read through them and ensure that you're giving yourself as much time as you need to process that information.

• 3) Your muzzle's coming along decently, though I included a little diagram to help you continue moving in the right direction. We start out with a "footprint" of the muzzle right on the surface of the ball, then extrude/extend it outwards, but the actual shape we're extending out changes slightly as well. The plane that sits between the side and top planes ends up much smaller/narrower towards the end of the muzzle. This is not a big deal, or even a mistake (all muzzles are different after all) - just a useful thing that should also help as you move forwards.

• 4) In these notes, I do mention that you should generally try and sag the torso sausage downwards. Because this works with gravity, it also tends to result in a more believable structure. You can always build on top of it with additional masses to build out whatever more specific silhouette you want for the whole animal's body, but it's still best to use this as a starting point, sagging the sausage downwards. It also helps to maintain a simpler overall sausage structure - your dog's ended up with a lot more pinching in the midsection which would undermine its solidity. Mine has a bit of pinching as well, but it's not as much.

• 5) The sausage method! I seem to have forgotten to mention this in the initial critique, likely because it ended up being very long and I'd already touched on a number of things - it is important that you use it, however, and I did call this out in my critique of your Lesson 4 work. I suggest you review that critique as well.

• 6) Your use of additional masses is continuing to develop in the right direction. One thing that helps, especially with the masses along the back, is to consider something all quadrupedal animals have - although it's not always super obvious. Since they walk around on all fours, they tend to have a lot of muscle at the hip and shoulder joints. We can block this in as just a ball form or an ellipse, but it's especially useful because it gives our additional masses something else to wrap around. The more they can wrap around, the more grounded and three dimensional the whole structure will feel. Knowing to look for those masses in the first place can help you identify them in your reference image.

So as a whole, you are definitely moving in the right direction, but I do still want to see you give your drawings more time overall, ensuring that you're giving each form, and every individual mark as much time as they individually require. Remember - the ghosting method isn't just an exercise, it's an approach you use for every single constructional mark throughout this course, and I do get a sense that you may not be sticking to it as consistently as you ought to. Also, I want to see you employ that ghosting method as well, as mentioned in your Lesson 4 critique.

So, I'm going to assign two more pages below. Instead of knocking them all out in one sitting, I'd like you to work on no more than one in a given day - and if you can, try to split them up across multiple days/sittings, so you can really focus on giving your all to every individual stroke.

You are not far off here, and I expect your next submission will be much better, as long as you stick to the points I've mentioned here.