In itself, its not a bad thing i guess but the brush is too different between the "Light Form Shadow" and the rest of the pear. Make it uniform so that it looks harmonious. Plus, your "Reflected Ligth" and "Core Shadow" have the same value. Make the "Reflected Light" lighter. Apart form that, it is a good pear in general, i like the shape and you well captured the top one.

Your hands are soooo cool,I am also loving the beards!!! I would love to get to where you are at some point!

I write down on my dry erase board my goals for drawing that day. Right now I am focusing in doing 2 portrait lay ins (I will stick with lay ins only for a couple months or more) and 2 assignments from drawbox. I will continue to do these and the projects that proko puts out. It helps to set a goal, write it down and try to achieve it for that day.

I don't know exactly what I'm looking at, but your perspective and shading is still super cool!

Hello! Good attempt, but since critiques are welcome I'd like to share my thoughts, hope some of them will be useful to you. Keep in mind that I don't know which artistic liberties and stylistic decisions you took but I'll judge it based on a more realistic approach (sticking close to your reference)!! Okay, first thing's first, I feel like you focused on details too early into the drawing without doing too much preliminary work! You can see how it affected proportions in wacky ways. One of the things I noticed in the photo is that the head (relative to the camera) is subtly tilted to the right (picture 1)! I can tell by the proportion of the planes when compared to each other but most importantly by the way we see both of the ears, if you look at the right ear we see that it is behind the head, while the left ear (obfuscated by the beanie) has a sliight incline towards the viewer. I can clearly see that you had trouble understanding the head orientation in your piece, you made it look to the left while keeping some of the features looking to the right, having the thing look off! Another point is the overall head shape. I can see that the preliminary drawing you did is actually more accurate to the proportion of the face with the beard! But when you added the beard it became too long compared to the reference. I made the indication in green (picture 1) where I think the jawline is. I may be completely off, so why should I guess when I can just treat the beard as a part of the face shape? The red and the blue lines combined make the overall face shape. Proper alignment is important to pay attention to! In picture two I made some parallel lines, they now tell us that the eyeballs align (they do not in your work), the ears and the tip of the nose align (again, same thing), the place where the head intersects the shoulders does not align (good job on noticing that!), but overall the shoulders almost align at the edges of the photo. The lower part of the drawing is probably where you were the most off! The opening for the neck is too tilted compared to the reference (Picture 3) and the shading is too chaotic and lacks proper definition of the shapes we see, but I'd rather focus on placement and structure right now. The worst part is readability - it's hard for the viewer to comprehend plane breaks and the shape of the collar. AND since you made the canvas wider you accidentally stretched the entire lower part wayy too much! If the camera panned down where the beanie got cut off out of our view we would start seeing the zipper and more of the lower torso. Lastly, try to see what makes things appealing to you. Looking at a photograph I have noticed the fun shapes that the face makes, looking like a sort of wave with that beanie! Your eye just surfs right off of it! That is the gestural nature of the shapes I have picked out (Picture 4). Oh, and the base of the nose looks like a bulb, your drawing kinda ate the part of the roundness on the shadow side! But overall your shape of the nose is consistent with the reference. Hope it helped :)) There are more things like shading stuff but start with lines, gestures and shapes is my advice.

Omg dude same! Here are the ones I hate most and anything remotely competent needed reference. So I'm studying anatomy from head down.