Giant mushroom and a hellebore leaf

This morning I bought a giant orange mushroom at a local farmstand.  It was unexpectedly pricey so I assuaged some of my guilt by using it as a model to draw from:

I probably "should" have gone on to apply watercolor to the sketch this afternoon (it's on watercolor paper, I plan to eat the model for dinner tonight...) but I've been feeling a lot of resistance about watercolor-ing (fear of failure, I think) so instead, I sketched a hellebore leaf from the garden:

I didn't realize it at first, but the leaf was gradually moving/drooping as a drew it, so I had to keep going back, erasing and redrawing parts that I'd thought I'd nailed.  I should have taken a photo before I tried adding shading because I feel like I wrecked the drawing with the shading.  To be blunt, the shading sucks (too choppy/not gradual enough).  But it was fun to be able to lay the color on quickly instead of working laboriously on tiny lines, as I usually do.  I plan to buy some charcoal (I was using the side of a soft pencil) and practice adding value just in black and white to future drawings.  I'm including the photo of what I made here because if I practice and am able to improve it will be good to see how far I've come.  Looking at it feels yucky right now, though.