great video!, after vs before

I'm feeling quite confused now I've watched Stan's demo because my second and third attempts kinda felt worse lol! I did have some observations I wanted to share, but firstly I should say that in my first attempt last night, I only used a 3B Pitt Graphite Pure pencil and I found shading the different values a lot easier to control with just the one pencil or perhaps it was due to the type of pencil. I'm still unsure. Today, I switched up to multiple pencils and this is where it got super confusing for me as I found it so challenging to keep the same tone as I blocked in one area. I also found that I kept wanting to go darker and so it ended up changing all of the values each time I did this. Lastly, with each study, I realised I wanted to add more and more detail, which I realise wasn't the point, but holding myself back from doing so was difficult and, well, I ended up totally overworking that last one! 🙈 I find it hard to see progress in my work or comment on things I like, but I'm going to try here because, despite it being far too dark and the values becoming too similar in the light and dark areas, I do see one improvement (I think?) and that's the shape of the shadow underneath the pear. I think! Lol Any advice or critique would be so, so appreciated, thank you! P. S. Apologies for the difference in light. I took the first photo last night.

left b4 watching yo vid. right after. Such good information. Finding edges and values was hard as. How much time should we be spending on sm like this to optimize quantity vs quality practicing ? Thank u for feed back!