I think I haven't used loose sketchy lines enough, because at this point I am mostly concentrated on trying to make things look similar to the original. I feel like I haven't gained enough confidence for loose lines yet. I hope it will be gradually changing.

Sorry for this! But I'm just starting out and have no idea how to draw a mermaid. I've had a lot of difficulties with the anatomy and finally decided to make her a little monstrous :))))

Lines are hard! At first, I missed the purpose and did the whole thing in huge lines that were not CSI (the purple drawings). The last one is after I watched the demo and critique. It is frustrating how lines don't get right even after multiple attempts, but seeing even a single confident and nice line in the end is priceless.

Ref pear nr 3. I tried out charcoal to get a darker shadow. But mixing charcoal with graphite didn't go very smoothly. The textures are clearly different and I will take that into consideration in the future. I kind of missed the instruction to only use straight lines during this exercise.

First project! First attempt, level 1. Took a real apple instead of the pear reference. It is hard to see the light part in the middle of the apple in the photo, but I think I saw it in reality 🤔

I’ve always been interested in drawing, since the childhood, but unfortunately never really pursued it. Now it’s the time:) i have three graphite pencils — 2H, B, 8B, and also a bunch of simple colored ones of unknown hardness. I kind of like the 8B pencil the most, at least for now.

Trying this digitally on Procreate! Already noticed it’s very difficult to judge pencil pressure without paper texture feedback.