Hi everyone! Here's the before and after. I think we can clearly see the progression. The first attempt was made before watching the demo. It was way harder than I thought. I still think I messed up the shadow under the pear, but we can see the improvement !

Hello everybody, I hope you’re doing well. I’d like to share with you my two attempts at recreating a pear from a reference photo. The first attempt was made before watching the demo, and the second one after. Thank you!

And here is the pear made with your advice from the video.

First attempts not very conclusive. I find it difficult not to try to go into detail, contenting myself with shadow form. But it's a good exercise for defining what is darker or lighter, I love it.

I'm using procreate as I'm better with traditional media and often hate what I do on my ipad. The first two I drew before watching the demo (white back ground and darker red background). The last one (pinkish background) is what I drew after watching the demonstration. The one with the white back ground, I used the procreate pencil. For the darkest background I used 6B and for the pink background I used gloam. All the brushes came with the program. Edit* I hate what I usually draw on my ipad because I'm trying to draw whats in my head and It just doesnt come out at all. Hence, I'm going back to the basics. Also, there are highlights in the middle pic, I should've went darker with my main light tone. I did these all on one layer.

Well that was harder that I thought🤣

Just starting the course with my daughter (who is a way more experienced artist than I am). First picture is before demonstration. Second pic is clearly after demo video. Third pic is after demo video and with a basic set of six drawing pencils.

Exemple 1 and 2 before the demo and 3 after watch the demo

left one was before the demo. i also drew a different variant (lvl 1#3) of the pear.

The first was drawn before the demo and the second is drawn after the demo.

Coming back to the tutorial a few days later to see if I’d remembered the tips

After doing the portrait first, I decided to try my hand at the Pear, to re-enforce the concepts:

Left was attempt before demo, right is after.

Before and After watching the Demo

My first attempt at drawing the pear 🍐

Before and after demo

my before and after pears:

I'm returning to the course after a break and I wanted to start fresh! I noticed with the first pear I may not have simplified the values enough, so I tried again, trying to keep everything sharper.

First attempt at the pear.