Starting with your organic forms with contour curves, you're doing fairly well here, specifically in how you're sticking to the characteristics of simple sausages (particularly in the first page), though there are a couple things I want you to focus on:

• Be sure to draw through all of your ellipses two full times before lifting your pen as discussed back in Lesson 1

• Your contour curves are sometimes a little hesitant - be sure to employ the ghosting method so you can invest your time in the planning and preparation phases of your marks, while still executing them with confidence.

• Make sure that as you slide away from the viewer along the length of a given sausage form, that you're widening the degree of your contour curves. The video from the Lesson 1 ellipses section explains why.

Moving onto your insect constructions, overall you are doing a good job here. There was definitely a stretch there where you got too caught up in decorating your drawings (going into a lot of form shading, which as discussed here in Lesson 2 would not be a part of our drawings here), but you corrected that reasonably well as you pushed through, focusing more on solid black cast shadows.

There are a number of constructions here where you've done an excellent job of focusing on how the elements from which you build up each insect are themselves three dimensional, and how you build upon them by introducing further three dimensional forms, avoiding the temptation to jump back and forth between 3D forms and 2D shapes. The drawings on this page were especially well done in this regard.

There were some other drawings where you did end up working more in 2D - cases like this grasshopper's head where you ended up modifying the silhouette of the initial head mass instead of introducing an entirely separate, new, fully enclosed 3D structure and establishing how it relates to the existing structure. There are definitely ways you can work through the head construction in a much more gradual, step by step fashion. This ant head construction demo shows how you can introduce new forms bit by bit, maintaining the illusion of 3D structure all the way through.

Lastly, I noticed that you seem to have employed a lot of different strategies for capturing the legs of your insects. It's not uncommon for students to be aware of the sausage method as introduced here, but to decide that the legs they're looking at don't actually seem to look like a chain of sausages, so they use some other strategy. The key to keep in mind here is that the sausage method is not about capturing the legs precisely as they are - it is about laying in a base structure or armature that captures both the solidity and the gestural flow of a limb in equal measure, where the majority of other techniques lean too far to one side, either looking solid and stiff or gestural but flat. Once in place, we can then build on top of this base structure with more additional forms as shown here, here, in this ant leg, and even here in the context of a dog's leg (because this technique is still to be used throughout the next lesson as well). Just make sure you start out with the sausages, precisely as the steps are laid out in that diagram - don't throw the technique out just because it doesn't immediately look like what you're trying to construct.

So! With that, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. You can continue to work on the points I've raised here as you move into the next lesson. Just make sure that you don't drift back into trying to apply form shading in your other drawings for this course.