Overall your work here is coming along really well! While I do have a few minimal points to offer as suggestions as you move forwards, as a whole I'm very pleased with your submission. Starting with the organic forms with contour lines, you're sticking fairly close to the characteristics of simple sausages [as mentioned in the instructions]() (there are a few little hiccups, mostly with the ends not being the same size or entirely circular/spherical, so keep an eye on that), and your contour lines are drawn confidently and wrap nicely around the sausage forms themselves. Do however remember that the degree of your contour curves is supposed to get wider as we slide away from the viewer along the sausage. Right now you're keeping the degrees roughly the same.

Throughout your constructions you're demonstrating a really solid grasp of how to approach additive construction - I don't see you cutting across the silhouette of your forms at all, instead you're pretty consistent in building things up from simple to complex through the introduction of new solid forms and defining the relationship between them and the existing structure beneath.

I have just a few suggestions to offer, although they are important so be sure to keep them in mind as you continue moving forwards:

• On this dragonfly's tail, I noticed that though the dragonfly is oriented pretty much right across our field of view, the contour lines' degree don't really line up with that. As shown here, it's important to keep in mind what orientation each cross-section is meant to be, and how it relates to the viewer's point of view.

• When adding contour lines to your constructions (like this beetle's horns) always consider what that contour line is meant to contribute, and whether it is actually necessary. Often times, once you've properly defined the contour lines that mark the intersections/relationships between forms, additional contour lines aren't usually that necessary. Needing to add two is even less common. One example where placing the contour line at the joint between forms would be this spider's thorax/abdomen intersection.

• While overall you've definitely shown an amount of adherence to the sausage method for constructing your legs, there are definitely areas in which you deviated from its specific requirements. It's important that you always stick to simple sausages, for example, and as pertaining to the previous point, you're basically not going to need to place additional contour lines in the midsections of your sausages when they're done correctly (as mentioned in the middle of the diagram).

• More importantly though, the sausage method just lays down an underlying scaffolding or armature - once in place, we can actually continue to build up from there to capture a lot more of the nuanced forms that make up our objects. For example, here's how you could build up an ant's leg, and here's how we can even apply it to a dog's leg, as this will be just as relevant in the next lesson.

• Lastly, with the shadows, this is just a minor suggestion - I'd recommend just using outlines when the shadows fall on the ground plane, rather than filling them in completely. Not only will it save on ink, it'll also be less distracting and will keep the focus on the insect itself.

So, with those laid out, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.