Here’s my images for the first lesson. Unfortunately I’m very sick at the moment so I was only able to get a photograph of one piece of artwork, the other is digital.
On the photographed piece, the trickiest part was getting it aligned perpendicular in front of the DSLR since it’s out of a sketchbook. I ended up setting it up on an art easel and using black clips to hold the page down.
I really like the line and color shading you used on your sketchbook piece. I also had a hard time lining the camera and piece up. That and the angle of the light make the white background have a bit of a gradient.