I like your organic forms with contours! You vary the degree of the ellipses and curves, which shows a solid undersanding of this diagram. Also I admire your patience and focus on theses exercises.
The following feedback might come off as blunt, though please take these as suggestions that might help learning/understanding and understand I don't intend any harm. Texture analysis could have more dynamism by using the two step method for building shadows, rather than relying on lines(I fall into this pitfall too :) ). For the dissections, I encourage you to wrap the texture all the way around the sausage, including hanging over behind, to learn how the textures might interact and drawing through the form to understand the structure with texture in 3d. Also I think you'll understand the form intersections more if you cut into the planes, explained here and example. Organic form intersections could have shadows on the floor to add more structure.
I hope that you have moved onto lesson 3 already given the time you finished, so I'm going to mark this complete. That said, I suggest that you do the following:
1 page form intersections with some cross-cutting lines, like the box on box intersection from this example
1 page of dissections with sausages that are drawn through and fully covered with texture
Some other critiques that might be helpful:
https://drawabox.com/community/submission/59OIWT6
Next Steps:
Hopefully these exercises then move on to lesson 3:
1 page form intersections with some cross-cutting lines, like the box on box intersection from this example
1 page of dissections with sausages that are drawn through and fully covered with texture
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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