Got my pre demo and post demo. Chose a different pose for post demo just not to copy what Stan did fully. It was a different challenge, was a bit puzzled how to go about the shadows as it seems fairly dark on the bottom part in the image. Any comment is welcome :)

here’s what i’ve got 🤗

Here's My Pear Sketch.

First 2 photos are my attempts prior to demo and critique videos, I attempted all 3 pears. watched the demo and critique then attempted pear 1 again. I'm extremely happy with the improvement from before an after. My absolute biggest challenge is filling in light values, I find it difficult to keep the strokes close together, resulting in quiet a few visible strokes. Any criticism and tips are highly welcome.

One before watching this video and another after. I think drawing digitally for pencil sketching is tad bit difficult for me, but I do think that after watching this video I start to understand more about seeing/drawing an object with flat panels. I watched the video then tried drawing it on my own, because I wanted to make sure I’m not trying to “replicate” the tutor’s drawing, but drawing it out based on what I’ve learned and understood. Shading value still needs to be improved imo, but I believe it’s definitely better than my first own attempt! also, if anyone is interested in getting a learning buddy, please let me know! I’m completely new to drawing. :)

I tried it a second time, following along with the video.

pear v1! coming back to drawing after a decade of not drawing anything. trying to learn again from the ground up

Pear 1. I’m an amateur

It is very cool to see improvement between the two, eve if it is really slight. I realized I was trying to rush through on attempt 1 and i worked on slowing down for attempt two.

I’m trying

This was fun. I’m loving seeing everyone else’s. It’s so interesting to see how people see things.

just mustering up courage to post

what do you guys think?

Before (v1) and after (v2). In v1, I used only an HB pencil for the values. In v2, I used HB, 2B, 4B, and 6B pencils. In both cases, I noticed that hatching was the hardest part. In v2, I tried to improve the hatching, but the shadow still does not have a sharp border between the values. I have a question: when I am hatching a simple drawing like this, do I need to keep the hatching mainly in one direction?

Before and after drawing. I don't know which one is good and o think there is not much difference between two of them, any critiques on my art

Very first attempt.

Before and after demo

Pear 3 on my own and then the first pear following the tutorial after my own attempts. I like the way the weight of the pear changes. Fun!