Looking at your last drawing, the one of the beetle, I do see a number of issues that come up:

• You start out by drawing your major masses, which is fine, but you appear to do so with a purposely lighter stroke, as though you're trying to leave them as a sort of underdrawing, not entirely treating them as part of the "final drawing", instead trying to separate your drawing into two phases. This is similar to the point explained here back in the form intersections exercise.

• You then go on to draw much more hesitant, even sketchier/scratchier lines with darker strokes, not approaching these the way you've been taught to execute all of your marks (using the ghosting method), but instead falling back on older habits.

• Where your initial masses are at least drawn confidently, and so they feel more solid and three dimensional, this next pass feels more like flat shapes, due to the lack of confidence behind the marks. Where your initial submission for this lesson showed drawings which had much stronger relationships between the base forms and the forms that wrapped around them (like segmentation and such), these lack that sense of form.

• Additionally, when building your legs, you start out properly with a sausage chain, which is good - but you then just wrap those sausages in entirely different forms that define no clear relationship with the underlying structure. Remember that we add bulk to our leg structures as shown here, wrapping forms around the sausages and clearly establishing how they relate to one another. If you just put a tube around a sausage, their relationship will be quite weak, since it's just one form floating loosely inside the other.

Overall I don't really think what you've done for these two drawings really reflects the best you're capable of. Given that you submitted the work less than 24 hours after receiving my critique, I don't really get the impression you took the time to really absorb the information in my critique, and may have been somewhat impatient when attempting to complete your revisions so you could move on more quickly.

I'd like you to do another two insect drawings, but beforehand, please take the time to not only go over what I've written here, but also take the time to let my initial critique sink in, and try and look at some of my demonstrations (including the informal demos here) to get a sense for how your approach differs from mine when drawing. Note especially how the marks I put down are always confident and purposeful - I don't try to hide anything, when I put a mark down I know it's going to be an important, contributing element in the drawing. I'm also always considering how my marks reflect the relationship between the form I'm drawing and the ones around it.

Also, I'd like you to follow a couple more restrictions:

• Do each drawing on a separate day, so you're not inclined to rush through one to get to the next.

• Don't include any detail or texture, focus entirely on construction alone.