You mention that you try not to draw the contour curves too wide. This puzzles me a little bit, because your wording therefore suggests that it's a conscious choice you're making. As you slide further along those sausage forms away from the viewer, they should be getting wider - there should be no artificial cap on their widths, and because you're imposing one, you're still drawing them as having roughly the same degree. This is something you're going to have to consciously continue working at.

To be fair, I am assuming that you didn't word your statement correctly - but I did feel it was important to stress that this is a conscious choice we can make, whether we draw those contour lines wider or narrower.

As to the rest of these, they are definitely mocing in the right direction, with a few key points I want to stress:

• On the macrodontia, you're still drawing its big mandibles as flat shapes that cut off where they intersect with the insect's head. Remember that every single form you add to your construction must be its own solid, three dimensional form - allow them to intersect where they need to, and define that intersection with a contour line. Definitely avoid just having the silhouette of the form you're adding end suddenly. You need to feel as though each structure you add is a three dimensional form of its own, not just a flat shape.

• You're ending up with similar problems when adding the little "feet" at the end of the legs. Instead, try building those legs as shown in this ant leg demo - start with a sausage even for that end segment, then build up those individual structures as 3D forms that wrap around it. That demo also shows how you can build upon the sausage structure, using it as a base structure. Construction is all about putting structures down, and then building on top of them - rather than trying to capture the "final" version of that leg all in one go.

• You may also want to look at this and this demo, which show how we can wrap new, solid, 3D forms around our existing structures.

• Lastly, avoid getting too heavy on line weight, as you did in the black widow drawing. It's not uncommon for students to end up with thicker line weight because they were trying to cover up some mistake - remember that line weight is a tool with a specific purpose, to help clarify how certain forms overlap others in specific, localized areas. Don't try to use it to cover up mistakes. In these drawings, it's generally best just to leave mistakes alone altogether, and keep moving forward.

You do have a lot to keep in mind and keep working at, but I'm going to leave you to continue addressing these things in the next lesson. You can consider this lesson complete.