What Week Are We On Now?

I don't have a lot to show for class last week.  When we had time to work on our manikins I couldn't do a whole lot of work in class because my Alaster's arm was at home, so I grabbed a hunk of clay and headed thither.  At home I ended up working on my shell instead and now it is all drawn and inked.  I think that the drawing itself was the best of the three so far, at the biggest.  I had a photo of the pre-inked shell but that, sadly, is nowhere to be found.  Well anyway, there it is, the third shell drawing all inked up.  I haven't decided whether the ink wash adds or takes away from the drawing.  I like the colors but I didn't apply them all that well.  I don't really understand how to work with the medium for starters, application methods, blending and other such things so I just kinda plopped it on and hoped for the best. I think the best inked part on this shell (aside from the color) is the ridge on the top where the planes change and there is a white line separating them. I think it really helps show depth and dimension.  The application on the back of the shell seems to have made it flatten out a little.  The highlights on the front seem pretty off to me too.  As for the actual drawing part of the shell, I think did pretty well.  I have a better diagonal that I have had in the past and the atmospheric perspective was more convincing as I was able to control the dark to light transition from front to back.  It also makes better use of the page than my previous drawings.  The thing I didn't do well in the drawing part was the area where you should be able to see inside the shell, you can't see it with the ink on it but I wasn't able to draw convincing contours to describe the shape inside the shell.