Some of your drawings are visibly more haphazard, but others are coming along noticeably better, so I'm going to be focusing on this one.

Here are some issues that jumped out at me, which I pointed out here.

• While you are clearly making an effort to use the sausage method, you are not adhering to all of its steps (for example, you're not reinforcing the joint between the sausages as explained in the middle of the sausage method diagram). This is an important step because defining the relationships between your forms in 3D space goes a long way to making them each feel solid and three dimensional. Otherwise they read largely as flat shapes, with no real reason to be interpreted otherwise. This technique can be used for all of our forms, and the contour lines that sit at the joint between forms are always going to be vastly more impactful than those that sit along the surface of a single form.

• Construction is all about building things up with solid, three dimensional forms - this means that any action you take that contradicts the solidity of a form you've already drawn is going to undermine that for the entire drawing. Looking at how you constructed the head, you cut back into its initial silhouette because you felt it didn't match your reference closely enough. It is incredibly important that in situations like this, you accept the fact that while it may not look just like the reference, it is better for the drawing to look different but still read as solid and 3D. I showed a little demonstration there of how I would construct that head - starting with a ball that I make purposely solid and three dimensional, then attaching a box-like form (with a clearly defined relationship between it and the original ball), then wrapping additional forms around it. Every stage reinforces this illusion of solidity.

• I didn't point this out on the page, but I did notice places where your linework - especially where you built up line weight - got kind of scratchy and stiff. Remember that line weight should be drawn with a confident stroke, not tracing carefully but made without any hesitation to keep it smooth.

• You don't appear to have made much attempt to observe your leg structure of your insects more carefully, as I mentioned in my last point in my initial critique. As shown in this ant leg demo, which I shared before, you're not moving past the top example.

I still think there is a lot of benefit in having you take a little more time to reflect on the critiques you've received, as well as the demonstrations in the lesson itself, before doing two additional insect drawings. Limit yourself to just one insect construction per day - don't attempt to rush through and get them all done in the same sitting.

It is really important that you look at the demonstrations from the lesson and attempt to replicate the kind of general approach. The louse demo, for instance, clearly defines how all the forms are introduced as solid, three dimensional entities, rather than being sketched more hesitantly on the page.