Hey there.

Starting with your sausages, I feel you did a good job overall, though there were some were you strayed from the characteristics that are requested for them; for example, some sausages are distorted, or pinched.

The reason why is important to keep them in a consistent form (check this out: ) is because it conveys solidity, and of you distort your sausages it can affect the solidity of your constructions.

Regarding your contour lines, I think you overall managed to wrap them around in the sausages properly, so good job buddy!

Before going in your constructions, I'd like to point out that some images are blurry, and that can affect the critique overall because critiquers can appreciate properly your construction. (Actually I had problems taking good photos...and I still have problems). So be careful with your photos, and try to take good ones for the sake of your work.

I must admit that your constructions overall look solid; I'm glad to see that you were mindful while drawing those bugs, tho you have a few issues:

-I noticed that there were some places were you didn't mark the intersection between sausages. That intersection, as always, reinforce the solidity of the leg. So recall to do it.

-There were some sausages that you distorted, or changed its form, just by adding lines, and that's no good.

You need to construct additively, meaning you should always add solid masses, or cut masses, in order to modify forms while maintaining solidity. Check this :https://imgur.com/4KKPam7

Be careful, because many people cut in 2d in future lessons, and that affects the illusion of 3d.

-I feel that you could also push the silhoette of the scales a more, in most of your drawings.

When I got critiqued, I got told this, and honestly I think it could be useful for you to read, so I'll quote it (you can also looks for my submission if you wish to):

"Constructional drawing itself comes in two flavours - there's additive construction, which is what you're employing the vast majority of the time in these drawings. We take one form, and then we add another to it, in a way that demonstrates how both exist in three dimensions, rather than just on the two dimensions of the page. We wrap forms around one another, we allow them to intersect with contour lines to help define those relationships, and so on. You're employing this to great effect.

The other flavour is called subtractive construction, and it is by its very nature considerable more difficult to wrangle, and can be used incorrectly quite easily. There are a couple places where you employed it, but did so in a way that flattened out elements of your drawings. Admittedly, there's actually very few instances of this - you've been pretty consistent at using additive construction wherever possible (which is great to see), but if you look at the claw on the right side of this scorpion drawing (the scorpion's left claw), I can see how you started with a ball form, but then decided to change that form a little later, pulling back into it and leaving a few lines outside of the form you ultimately moved forwards with. What this ultimately tells the viewer is that there are two contradicting forms present, one encompassing the other".

I'm also glad to see that you didn't go overboard with texture. However, there are some legs where you added scribbling for texture, like here https://i.imgur.com/UPiehxK.jpg.

This is part of lesson 5 stuff, but check this out: (https://drawabox.com/lesson/5/1/fur). The thing is that is way more effective to add texture to the silhoette, rather than inside the form, since the silhoette -as we got tell on lesson 2- makes more impact on the viewer.

So overall I think you did a good job, and although I see you submitted that way ago, is good to keep these points in mind for the future.