1. This course doesn't worry much about specifics relating to each individual topic we explore. At the end of the day, they're all 3D objects, and so we're focusing primarily on what we can see in our reference images, and how we can determine the different simple forms they can be broken down into. So, specific anatomy isn't really a concern for us here, beyond using certain terms (cranium, ribcage, pelvis, for example) as ways to refer to specific masses.

2. That's all going to come do practice and experience. That is what will help hone your observational skills, while also helping you better understand the different ways in which forms can be combined and built off one another.

3. Not in this course. If you go back to my original critique, where I talk about the sausage method, I explain how it is a technique geared towards capturing both the solidity and gestural flow of leg structures, which is quite important for what we're doing. If you're having trouble with the use of the sausage method - as many do - that's not a sign that the approach should be swapped out, but rather that you simply need more practice with it. That's entirely normal, so you should absolutely be using the sausage method throughout Lesson 5 as well.

4. Unfortunately I don't have the time to offer that service. Keeping up with the continuous influx of homework submissions makes it difficult enough just to work on updating the lesson material, so offering feedback on other work isn't remotely feasible for me. One of the big benefits of the course (from the critiquing side of things) is that the mistakes people make tend to fall into the same categories, making it possible to find strategies to provide feedback somewhat more efficiently. It's still time consuming, but critiquing students' other work would be vastly moreso.

Edit: Having flipped through your work again, I noticed something I didn't pick up on before - the actual dates of a number of the pages you were submitting.

You may have forgotten, but as explained in Lesson 0, students submitting their work for official critique are not allowed to continue onto the next step until instructed, and so any work done prior to the prerequisites being marked as complete may not be submitted for work. I can see that a good chunk of the work you submitted for every submission thus far has included a fair bit of old work, as well as a smaller quantity of newer work.

It is impossible for you to apply the feedback you've received in a critique in work you've already completed, so we do require everything you submit to be new. Please refrain from submitting old work from here on out.