Nice work! Overall I think you've done a pretty good job in applying what's covered in the lesson. There are a few things I want to draw your attention to, but overall you're moving in the right direction.

Starting with your organic forms with contour lines, the sausage forms are generally kept to simple forms, and you're doing a pretty good job of wrapping your contour lines along the rounded surfaces. There are two things to note however:

• You seem to be sticking to fairly consistent degrees along the length of the form, rather than letting the degree shift naturally. As shown here, the degree of each ellipse tells us the orientation of that circular cross-section relative to the viewer, and as it moves across our field of view, it'll get wider or narrower.

• I also noticed that in a number of cases, while you were adding a contour ellipse along the tips of the forms, you weren't doing so correctly. This contour ellipse is essentially the same as the contour curve, except for the fact that it becomes fully visible (rather than just as a partial curve) when the full surface of the end is facing towards the viewer. You've drawn these ellipses in some cases on ends that are turned away from the viewer (based on the contour curves), and in some cases you've drawn the ellipses with a degree that does not follow the trend set by the contour curves. Definitely need to put more thought into what those contour ellipses are representing and communicating about the form.

Moving onto your insect constructions, I'm seeing a really solid use of simple forms, built up over the course of the entire process to maintain the illusion that what we're looking at is three dimensional. There are a lot of places where you're wrapping forms around one another believably, and where you're defining the relationships between forms with contour lines. These are all important techniques, and I'm glad you're getting used to their use.

There are a few other things I'd like to point out, but by and large you're doing things pretty well:

• When applying the sausage method (which of course should be used for every single leg construction, and you have been pretty consistent in doing that), make sure you're applying all major points of this technique. That is, keeping your sausage forms as simple as possible, avoiding any pinching through their midsections, keeping the ends the same size and reinforcing the joint between sausage forms with a single contour line. I think in most cases you are attempting to do this, but there are places where elements of this are forgotten.

• Similarly to what I said about the degree of your contour lines in the organic forms exercise, make sure you're aware of how the degree of your contour lines will shift along the length of a form. For example, looking at the abdomen of your dragonfly this ended up looking very stiff because of how the ellipses were all the same degree. It messes with what the viewer expects to see, and creates contradictions and inconsistencies.

• On your wasp's abdomen, you seem to have forgotten to let that segmentation push past the silhouette of the form. You did a much better job of this with this ant's abdomen.

• When adding bulk to a leg construction (after using the sausage method to create a base structure/armature, this technique that uses additional masses and wraps them around the underlying structure is generally more effective than just enveloping part of the structure in another new form. It's more effective because it creates a clearer relationship between the form being added, and those already present.

So! You've got a few things to keep in mind - and all of these principles, the sausage method included, will come into play plenty through into the next lesson. So, I'll go ahead and mark this one as complete. Keep up the good work.