The hand is too difficult 😩

First course assignment! Just putting some graphite to paper. The physical act of collecting all my pencils and sharpening them was really soothing. I was surprised to see that the HB pencil was a little darker than the B pencil (but that's probably due to them being made by different manufacturers, or is it supposed to be like that?). Also: my scanner isn't great, so I added the same page with some boosted black levels. Either one doesn't really come close to the actual values on the page, so I might try some digital tools for projects I'll be posting in this course as well. Nice to meet all of you, and I look forward to studying drawing basics together :)