First Time Posting , Long Time Wanting To Do Art 1st 4 pics where my first "swipe" at this elusive pear. When I couldn't seem to get the overall shape, I'd quit, early, and move on to another attempt. I guess, in retrospect, I could have, at least practiced laying down values. On the 3rd drawing, I was really trying to push myself to limit to straight lines. You can see the question mark, in the middle of the pear, where I just had to stop-drop-&-roll out. The planes, the angles, etc... too confusing. I couldn't wrap my brain around "the how" to solve it. After Stan's demo, I ditched trying to create my drawing from the ref pic, and simply attempted to draw Stan's version. On my 5th swipe, I really "spread my wings" (lol) hoping a whole page's worth of drawing space, would be the trick. I learned important lessons around layering. Had I waited to commit to the darkest value, at the very very very end I would have avoided the ghost image of the o.g.-core shadow. As I kept looking at it, I realized the core shadow wasn't close enough to the middle of the pear, so I moved it more toward the middle. The last pic is my final attempt. I'm realizing that the direction you shade, totally matters, bc it shows the eye how the plane is situated. "I could've had a V-8!" . I also learned that the way you lay down your shading-lines matters, too. Ideally, spaced apart, the same distance, and same pressure on each line. Allllllll fabulous to know. Can't wait for the next assignment.

My first attemp

First time uploader - longtime listener... and computer user.... yet when I go to upload my pear drawings I think I'm slaying: in dashboard, I choose the photo icon, choose my pear photos, choose "upload", ... a. n. d. nothing. The website prompts me to choose my pics to upload, again. Around and around it goes, like a bad re-run of "Groundhog Day" Any advice for a struggling Mac user?

Second attempt post demo :)

after demo

My attempt after improving the drawing while watching the video.

#1 pre-demo, #2 post demo. Didn’t simplify enough in the first one

My pear attempt, digital drawing:

both pear attempts

I didn't go to the level of detail in the lesson. I'll take another shot at it.

I think I did something too difficult too fast, or I didn't simplify enough :<

Here are my attempts. First one i did before watching the demo, 2 and 3 after. #2 should be leaning way more to the left though, messed up on the outline.

Hello. My first attempt was to try drawing from the real pear. I was unhappy with result, so decided to try one more time, but to draw from the photo

My attempts at the pair before and after this video, left is before, right is after. I'm pretty satisfied with the second attempt but I do realize I could've done a bit better in hindsight

My attempts at the pears. Excited to come back and try these again and the lvl 2 project once i make my first pass through the course!

Hello, first attempt. Thank you.

First attempt, I haven’t watched the tutorial yet. Complete newbie and pretty happy with how it turned out. I expected the result to be so bad I’d quit the course once this was done 😂 (I will be continuing 👍).

First attempt after watching the demo