Hey hifoxwild, Nice job on your first project, you did a good job using straight lines to describe the shape and you got the angle of the pear just right. Make sure that you look very carefully at the lines you are making to describe things in your drawing. You will notice the stem is bent, but you drew it straight up and down. As far as your rendering, I did a quick sketch to show you how you should arrange your values. This is based on squinting your eyes to compare the values to each other. If you squint, you will notice the shadow of the pear is the same as the cast shadow on the ground plane. I hope my sketch is helpful, keep it up :)