I think I spent too much time on this one, I had to erease and redraw a lot of lines. Also, straight lines are super hard, is using a ruler allowed?

I'm having troubles simplifying the boots. I suspect the laces were a trap and I fell for it! Now I'm a bit lost and don't know how to continue the left boot. I'll try a different approach for the right boot...

second attempt, before I watched the demo -- got a page full of notes on what I can improve!

As a complete beginner I tried my hand at the pear drawing. First two attempts were done before watching Stan's demo, the last one after. I feel I need more range in my pencils, I only have from 2b to 2h and I find it difficult to differentiate shadow values without a lot of passes that make dark patches too murky and not enough clean. Fun exercise!