Spent quite some time on these, but probably more due to drawing digitally. I make all women quite masculine

Wonky apple on tan paper (I realized late that I didn't need to do the midtone since the paper itself provides it, duh :D). The portrait I did on Krita using pencil brushes. I found it difficult to get a consitent tone digitally, so I may stop trying to do these digital if I'm going to get distracted by getting the brushes right... In any case, it was a very fun exercise. Both of these I drew while watching along the demo videos.

I found it a lot easier to do this exercise in procreate. Pencil drawing is a lot more challenging.

i think you did better than I did -- my first versions failed to separate the shading at all; the second try with the pear was a little better but harder than it looks!

Here's my humble attempt at doing it right! Harder than it looks!

My first attempt with HB only, what do you think guys ? I need to work on values that's for sure.

This is my snail using only C curves, S curves and straight lines

First pictures. Should I stick with level 1 or 2, or try both?