I'd appreciate any feedback. My 3rd pear, which took a few hours. I'm happy with my impovent in some areas, particularly my control when shading. I pressed too hard on some of the dark parts, but when I did the last pear I couldn't control my strokes at all. They were more like uncontrolled twitches. I've been practicing maintaining control throughout the movement and I think it's really paying off. I'm less happy with my shadow shapes. When blocking out my intitial shadow shape I made some choices I regretted, but had to try and make work. Here are my list of things to work on from the critique: 1. Proportions 2. Flat values 3. Simple shapes 4. Shape design (not symetrical) 5. Rythms 6. Make sure values cover the appropriate range e.g. shadow is dark enough 7. Can choose own value scale e.g. 4 light plus 1 shadow (Still just 5) Edit: Looking at the photo now, I think my dark halftones are too dark. They look more like part of the shadow family.

Second attempt

Did I simplify too much?

another attempt to simplify value after i watch the critique videos, i dont like the clunkiness, but if i squint, it looks kinda cool, so i will defnitely practice again tomorrow

Pear 1 was done before the demo, pear 2 with/after the demo, and pears 3 & 4 after the critique. Although pear 4 was done about a week later since I wasn't able to draw. Wanted to use some fun colors but making sure to keep their values distinct in 3&4. I attached a grey scale version so the values can be seen easier. Open to critique anyone has.

my first attempt & after watching the demo

This is my attempt using pear 1

This is my third attempt, using the pear 3 image in the downloads. I learned a lot watching the critique videos for both the pear and the portrait. Squinting helps a lot! But it also gave me a headache….i wonder if I could get the same effect as squinting by throwing an image in procreate and using Gaussian blur.

I think my pear is pearing.. : )

Simplifying is a pretty difficult task for me, but I enjoyed drawing this :)

First attampt I think it turned out somewhat ok. Please forgive me drawabox warm-up seeping through the other side of paper.

Here my Frist attempt, demo, and the one after Critique hopeful i improved lol

After watching the demo & critique videos, I think I understand the first pear/values assignment a little better. Did everything free-hand this time to help develop hand-eye coordination (rather than "cheating" with auto-straight-line-tools). I'm proud of my own progress! Critique videos are long, but the many examples are very helpful. Watching those is like practicing without actually practicing.

(1st image)My 2nd attempt to draw this pear after watching demo and critique video. I did it on my own, didn't trace what proko did, because I still don't understand the concept of "core shadow". (2nd image)My 1st attempt to draw this pear, I'm sure I got some improvement. Maybe later in this course, I could learn more techniques on how shade cleaner tone.

Tried it a different ways

I think I nearly spit out my coffee when pear face came up. Great sense of humor by whoever submitted that, and Stan immediately just going into critique mode without even questioning it made it so much more funny.

Before and after Demo Pears. I didn't do the portrait one, looks too difficult for now. Might try it later

i know its rubbish , but worked hard so still put it on. it looked good when first two values , then I lost my clean clear lines , going to come back to this next week.