Drawing Cloth and Fruit (challenge)

Here's my bowl of fruit and cloth drawing from one of Jen's (RookiePainter) still life photo:

I'm fascinated with drawing right now.  I'm learning to look.  With the small amount of time I have during the weeknights, I find I can do a drawing in under two hours.

I started out drawing the horizontal line in the background.  Then I drew an outline of the front of the bowl and then drew in the outlines of the fruit.  I sketched in the cloth and double-checked the overall placement of the objects.  I added a few details, used an HB pencil to darken the outlines, and then started the shading.

I've been starting out with my 5H pencil to shade all the dark areas.  Then I use 4H and 2H to darken certain areas of the drawing (that's away from the light).  I go all the way up to 3B for the really dark shadows.  I use my blender stub to smooth out the contrast areas and soften edges where needed.

I drew this using my Prismacolor Turquoise Art Pencils (5H through 3B) on textured Bristol paper.