Before demo... Happy with the likeness but was too precious with details: should have simplified to focus on value.

I gave all three pears a try: pear one on my own, pear two after watching the demo, and pear three after watching the critique. I only had one pencil to work with for pears one and two, but I had a set for three. For pear three, I felt like I had the most trouble with creating the shapes at the top of the pear and with identifying where to place the dark halftone. Any critique is welcome!

Tried my best at the moment! Please suggestions are very welcome, started to draw this year! I feel that I don't have enough perception for the shades, any tips for this sketch improvement ? PS: I really liked the simplification I've made, but I don't have enough exp to know what I can improve, or what I did wrong

Pear 3. Definitely getting more challenging in the order of the pears. Was hard to figure out how much to simplify with this one but I just tried to design a bunch of roughly parallel lines.

One with a pencil and the other one with a ballpoint pen … I forgot the recommendation to draw only with lines ;-)

Would love feedback!

Pear 2

Tried my best

I used all three pears in the downloads for these drawings. I'd love some critique before moving on to the portrait.

Pear assignment - I'm realizing I should have planned out the pear on my page since I didn't leave enough space to consider the shadow.

Here is the apple instead of a pear assignment. commets and critique are welcome! please provide comments. TIA!

First attempt at the pear. I used an eraser to carve out the highest brightness parts.

Before and after

Before the demo

Completed before watching demo except for background shading which I planned to do anyway but didn’t realize how much that would improve the light halftones from the blank white paper around it and the idea of ending it before the stem made sense so it wouldn’t get lost in the same tone. To do over, I would’ve shaded with the tip of the pencil instead of the side to get more use to that and get a more angular look like in the demo. Also, I shaded the strip inside of the C shaped gap on the middle left as a light shadow instead of a dark halftone but when I squint that’s the way it appeared to me. Please let me know your thoughts!

Before and after demo. I liked going through the step by step - gave me a bit more direction.

Before and after I watched the demo. The shading was a bit overwhelming. I think it's a bit messy. I would love honest critique and feedback.

I felt very confident in simplifying and creating the value grouping contours, but when it came to actually shading I had such a hard time! Tried digitally where I'm most comfortable, and then traditionally to work on that draftsmanship. I drew the portrait at an angle and didn't even realize until I took the picture, I have the raw drawing then the "corrected" one with some liquify work :,) y'all are so talented! <3

Before watching the demo. Never drawn a day in my life, unless doodling while bored in class counts. Didn't quite hit the assignment bullet points (after watching demo) but just happy with the outcome anyway.

I tried a one more pair after watching the demo. Some improvements and some a little worse. I think I did a bit of a better job of not doing too much in the shadows and keeping it a bit more of a shadow. But In this one I was having trouble getting getting the light tones differentiated. I maybe needed to use a sharpener to get more of the lead down. Aesthetically, I think I like my first attempt more but there was a quote I liked in the demo that we're learning to draw not how to draw a nice pear, haha. I think in the demo or critique he suggested crunching the whole shadow to one so that there would be more to work with in the light which I think might have worked better for this pair.