Starting with your organic forms with contour lines, these are largely moving in the right direction, but there are some little deviations from the characteristics of simple sausage forms that are holding you up just a little bit. Just remember that we want to keep the ends equal in size and circular (avoiding having them stretch out more), and we want to keep the width of the sausage consistent through its midsection. No pinching or swelling. Other than this, you're doing a good job with the contour lines.
Moving on, I'm honestly very happy with your insect constructions. You're adhering to the principles of construction very well, building your forms up steadily and avoiding any tendency to jump ahead. I don't see any cases where you attempt to introduce more complexity than the existing structure can support. You're also showing a strong understanding of how your various forms relate to one another in space, how and where they connect, and you even manage to achieve some rather complex structures (like the abdomen of the one on the right side of this page) very well.
The only thing I wanted to comment upon comes down to your use of the sausage method. You're definitely aware of it, as I can see you trying to use it in a number of places, but there are some visible shortcomings and issues that hold you back a little in that regard:
Remember that he sausage method has specific steps to it, as shown here. I can see a number of cases where you neglected to define the joint between the sausage segments with a clearly drawn contour line.
You also didn't always stick to simple sausages forms. Sometimes you meant to, but ended up stretching out the ends a little farther (like the spider on this page where they appear more like stretched ellipses). In other cases, like this ant, you opted for slightly more complex forms altogether.
It's not uncommon for students to be aware of the sausage method, 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, 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.
In regards to this last point, your insects' legs were definitely off to a decent start, but there's much more nuance and complexity that can be built up on top of that structure.
So! Aside from that, you really are doing a great job. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. You'll encounter much more of these sausage method issues when drawing animals, so be sure to keep what I've mentioned above in mind.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto lesson 5.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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