‘Tis the season. Pumpkin sketching season, that is.
My first sketch. Looks like a pumpkin. Or what I think a pumpkin looks like; just not like the pumpkin I was looking at, so I abandoned the sketch.
Recognizable as a pumpkin
The real pumpkin.
Pumpkin model
My second effort. And there is something funny about this one. The real pumpkin is a little lopsided but my drawing doesn’t reflect it accurately. Usually it’s the other way around: my drawing is lopsided and the model objects are not. I’m looking forward to the time when my drawings match the model shapes. Won’t that be something to celebrate.
Second try
This was only my second independent (not in class) sketching effort.
It's a long story ... 
Good job on the pumpkin! I’m afraid most of my sketches are slightly better than stick figures … but only slightly.
It’s taken me a long time to get passed the stick figure stage. My sketches don’t always look like the subjects, but at they are fatter than sticks now!