Proko drawing course exercise 1

I started the Proko Drawing Basics course, and my 'before' and 'after' the demo attempts at the simplified pear form in lesson 1 turned out like this:

My goal for drawing is to better understand the basics of art. I am naturally inclined to the technical side of 3D art, but you hit a ceiling and then understand why people in the industry are more likely to have a fine arts background than a technical background.

So I thought I would do each exercise in Blender also: