The sausages with contour lines were something I struggled with more than any of the Drawabox exercises, as well as being one of the most important. While I've been doing sausages as warmups for a while, a few months ago I realized that I should probably start numbering them and see if I'd improve by the time I hit 250. For the most part, I kept to a scehdule of five a day. Admittedly, a lot of days I deliberately experimented with how I was holding my pen/the amount of times I was ghosting/doing other sausages on another page before trying to copy the best ones/etc, as I tried to see if there was some way I could better understand the exercise.

The result? I haven't improved in the slighest, lol. Even though I accumulated hours looking back over these and trying to course-correct, and I understand pretty much everything in the lesson on a technical level - I know that the sausages are supposed to be shaped like two balls at either end of a tube, I know that the line is meant to perfectly divide the middle, I know that the eclipses are supposed to hug the edges. Simply understanding something doesn't mean you can draw it, but you can't simply wish for the best either - drawing isn't something that can learned just from doing, nor from doing and understanding; I'm still lacking something. I have no idea what's made me so unable to draw sausages, but I will continue to smack against my limits in the hope that I can eventually catch up.

Oh, and I noticed upon completing the project that I had accidentally skipped numbers 31-39 and 61-64, which is why those numbers are the latest.

If anything else, this little self-assigned challenge is further reminder that I should be allowed access to therapy.