Hello Benzenlines, you're welcome, and thank you for replying with your revisions.

Starting with your organic forms You're doing a good job of sticking to the characteristics of simple sausage forms, and I'm happy to see that you're hooking your contour curves around the form, well done.

However you're not varying the degree of your contour curves. As a general rule of thumb these curves should get wider get as we slide further away from the viewer along the length of a given cylindrical form as explained in the ellipses video from lesson 1 that I shared with you before. Take a closer look at this diagram that shows how to do it.

Moving on to your insect constructions I can see that you're taking steps towards thinking in 3D. However you don't seem to have understood one of the main points of my critique.

Once you've put a form down on the page, do not attempt to alter its silhouette. I've marked in red on your work here where you made quite liberal cuts inside the ellipses you drew for your primary forms. This undermines the solidity of your constructions and reminds the viewer that they are looking at a collection of lines on a flat piece of paper. These first forms are not a loose underdrawing, or a vague suggestion. When you draw these forms you are introducing structures to the world, structures that cannot be ignored. Everything else you draw must build from those basic forms with specific connections. Instead of attempting to redraw the whole structure, simply add the parts that change.

On the back of the abdomen of the bottom construction you may have accidentally cut into your construction due to there being a gap between passes of your ellipse. It is perfectly normal for there to be some looseness to your ellipses, as we ask you to prioritise confidence over accuracy. There is a way we can work with a loose ellipse and still build a solid construction. What you need to do if there is a gap between passes of your ellipse is to use the outer line as the foundation for your construction. Treat the outermost perimeter as though it is the silhouette's edge - doesn't matter if that particular line tucks back in and another one goes on to define that outermost perimeter - as long as we treat that outer perimeter as the silhouette's edge, all of the loose additional lines remain contained within the silhouette rather than existing as stray lines to undermine the 3D illusion. This diagram shows which lines to use on a loose ellipse.

I can see you're making a lot of progress when it comes to adding to your constructions with 3D forms. There are still some places where you're extending your construction with partial shapes, which are not 3D. I've marked on your work here in green where you took actions in 3D and in blue where you took an action in 2D, to help you to understand the difference.

Looking at the construction of your legs, I can see you made a pretty good effort with using the sausage method for the insect at the top of this page though you could stick a little closer to the characteristics of simple sausage forms. Their ends should be evenly sized and rounded (not pointy) and there should be no bulging in the middle. The legs of the insect on the bottom of this page are built from flat shapes. This image shows the difference. The sausage method is quite specific, take another look at the diagrams I shared with you before, and follow the instructions as closely as you can.

I can see that you're working on thinking in 3D, and some parts of some of your constructions are really very good. But I am concerned about the disregard for the solidity of the first steps of your constructions. Please carefully re-read the first round of feedback, and what I've written here, and try again. Of course if anything that has been said to you here, or previously, is unclear, you are welcome to ask questions.

And Happy Holidays to you too.