Hi all, I'm Kiki and I recently started the course. I tried the pears first, then watched the demonstration and sketched a little mandarin. I then challenged myself with the portrait. I tried again the portrait a few months later after watching the demo. The first one took me less than 30 min, the second one took me 2h and a half. Improvement is visible but after the darkest tones I kind of lost track of the values. I used a HB 80% graphite pencil for draft and brightest tone, 2B for mid tones and 4B for darkest tones. Any critique is welcome. Thanks