Here’s my pear. I’ve been "drawing" my whole life, but I never really learned the theory behind it, so I’m excited to learn and see where this goes. Thank you!

This is my second try. Better than the initial. I am mostly struggling to make shading within a plane and to keep pencil marks within the shape

Hello everyone, I am primarily a painter and had to leave school and take a break from art for medical reasons over the last year. I decided to start this course to try to get back into my creative practice, while improving my skills and fundamentals. It's been a while since I've done a study like this, I tried to focus on the value structure and basic shapes. These are my first attempts at the pear, the last one I did after watching the crit. Any critiques, feedback or suggestions would be highly appreaciated! Im excited to get back into it and continue in this course, this is an incredible resource for emerging artists.

Never used Procreate before, first two tries

locked in changed softwares in the last one thats why it looks a bit better

i forgot some stuff or messed a bit so a made sure to make note of them on the drawing xD feel free to tell me anything else i might of gotten wrong

Think my shading was a bit rough, and I need to work on it but pretty happy with this as a first atempt

Inspiration, first attempt, and second attempt. Using this course to help my painting. Trying to figure out how to really simplify first into big planes and values.

tried my best understanding to follow

Before and after not sure if it can be considered any improvement at all

This was my third try and personal-favourite. Very great exercise!

The first one on the left was my attempt without watching the demo. While the second was.

It's a start. I can see from looking at some others that this pear lacks dimension b/c I didn't do the 3D panel work. Now I've learned to come look at the postings before I get started, very helpful.

Hi guys! These are my pears, I kinda tried out different things before watching the demo and I feel I got to where I wanted to get. Hope to hear some critiques and hopefully get better and get to know my peers!

Hi from Spain, here is my sample.

The natural light was after this video, the LED light is before. Criticism is more than welcome, I believe I needed to define the lines a bit better as asked for simplification sake (Working on using elbow to make the lines still shy about it); along with blending the tones a little more to make it seamless. The tones I tried to restrict myself to a 2B along with the composition notepad to get a feel of what the pencil by itself could do. Also experimented with the lighting on the paper as well which also changed the effect to what details could pop. Thanks and hope to hear from you,

My first attempt, my second attempt after the demo, and the lemon in front of me. I think I have a lot to improve, but this was a lot of fun.

Before and after the demo and critique. I realized while watching it I drew the wrong pear the first time, but I still can see an improvement.

Hi everyone, just starting this course, would love a art buddy if anyone wants. these 2 pics are my before and after the lesson, before i didnt do it with straight lines so they look a lot different, i still like more my first but lets see where it goes doing it blocky ish :) if anyone has tips pls say it i want to get better <3

Hey everyone, just want to share my progress. I've drawn the same pear twice. First one before Stan's demo, turned out to be not simplified enough, but I think I've got pretty accurate proportions. The second attempt was after the demo. I've also added it a few comments on the photo after watching the critique video. And I think that maybe the darkest shade of the light looks better on the first one, because it gives the pear more volume. Feel free to share your opinion, what else could be potentially improved if you notice something, that I've missed :)