Apple

Over the past week there has been a bit of chatter about colored pencils on WWAO, the women artist group I belong to. I have to admit it has made me curious and since it has been awhile since I tried a new medium I was thinking I might give it a shot.
So I was surfing around on Wet Canvas today and there in the colored pencil section was a challenge for April, one of the reference pictures was of an apple (by Ivyleaf) . Now I LOVE challenges and will jump in with absolutely no clue of what I am doing but always give it my best shot
So, because I can't draw very well at all, I chose the apple, I mean really, how hard can an apple be, right? Well, turns out that an apple is MUCH harder than it looks!
Below are my 3 attempts to do an apple with colored pencils, I doubt I will ever be a great artist with cps but I am pretty happy with the last one :-)
It is an 8x10