hi, I would say the values are pretty good, but it comes pretty close together between the lights and the shadows. Try to make the seperation in shadow/light values a bit more noticeable. The values you put down are not consistent, for the halftone for example. Try to make it one consistent value, where you fill up the shape evenly and with one tone. Also I noticed that maybe your proportions are a bit off, but it doesn't matter, because this still reads like a pear. The shadow on the other hand, is facing the wrong direction. If you used the reference photo from the project, the shadow should be going to the top left instead of the bottom left. Based on the highlights you put, this should be the case.

Your shadows are very smooth. Everything in this drawing is soft and drawn with curved lines, save for the hard, dark outlines covering a major part of the fruit and at the edge of the shadow under it. There's a thin stripe of light between the fruit and the shadow under it, and this makes it kind of look like the mango is floating in the air. You could try this again so that you only use straight lines for every shape. Imagine every shadow shape as a block, and don't smudge the edge between different values. My first experience with this assignment was that I was unbelieving I could draw a round object with straight lines, and that having a big contrast between values without smoothing any edges would end up looking like some odd, abstract puddle. But I tried it, and it worked. I recommend you try it, too, use only straight lines and only sharp edges, as it might be helpful. Have fun and enjoy exploring. And by the way, I think your smooth shading style looks absolutely beautiful :).

This is not a bad start. If you were to focus on one thing to improve, I would say you should work on distinguishing your values a little more. On the face, it's hard to distinguish lighter shadow values from darkest half tone from lightest halftone. I would split the drawing into light and shadow first and then find darker areas in each, taking care to keep the lightest shadow darker than the darkest light.

Great job with the blocks of shading. You've also managed to keep your edges simple. Like you mentioned, I would make sure that you halftones are lighter than your shadow family. In a lot of other videos, Stan mentions "Your darkest lights are lighter than your lightest shadows". It may help for you to start with two tones -> what is in light and what is in shadow, and then in each family try to find the darker and lighter areas.

These are pretty nice! In digital, you may be able to use just a hard edge brush to get around the shading portion of digital. I've found that with digital, it's not very translatable from a mechanics perspective to pencil and paper, which is why I prefer to use a hard brush on digital and a pencil and paper when I want to do more shading stuff Keep at it!

Just meant to post this first demo. Didn't mean to mark it for help!

After watching the demo I was able to see that some of my values are too similar. I could have benefited from using different softness pencils to easily get my darker tones. Some of my shadow form lines are darker than the shadow they encompass. Using a kneaded eraser in the future to pull back unwanted dark areas.

looks solid, but i would avoid outlining the shapes