Some time to draw. Stan's reference photo has nice highlights, but the lack of reflected areas in the shadow due to the black and soft background threw me off a bit. But reminded me to draw what I see and not what's in my mind. These are my first tries. Two in graphite and one in fountain pen. I admit my background on the left side is not dark enough, especially on the graphite in the middle and I did not get the lost edges I see but did not execute as much as I wanted. Finally, I attached a pear shot I just made on a light background for a reflected shadow area. Feel free to use if you want.

Just happened to sign on this site today and realized there are two videos already. Will we be getting notifications when there are new lessons posted, or do we just need to randomly come back to the site?