I forgot to save all of the references I used, but here are two of them. This was the first time I’ve tried something like this. So fun.

I loved this exercise! Practicing the tapered strokes was so freeing. I really struggled with the proportions on the hand. It took a few tries to get it somewhat close.

Here are my boots and my snail.

I chose to try out pear-3. I found it very challenging, especially differentiating the two shadow values. The first image is my attempt before watching the assignment, and the second is after following along with Stan's silky smooth demo. I was surprised at how much more relaxed Stan was about the assignment, so I was much more relaxed my the second attempt. Nothing's on fire. It's just a pear. Chill out.