A Learning Experience | Waterlilies

I mentioned in my last post that Wylie Beckert's under-drawings had inspired me to try an art piece of my own using a similar technique.
The drawing is pencil on, well, basically a stiff bit of almost-but-slightly-larger-than A3 white cardboard I had lying around.
I'll admit, the pencil work isn't great. Usually I have a very scratchy way of shading that didn't really give the look I wanted when it came to filling in the large areas of water, and when I tried to go over it, the linework from before ended up showing through anyway - which looks a tad messy.  Not that it was just this one creative mistake.
Like I've said before, I don't like environments. I find the whole process of drawing them boring and repetitive so as you can probably imagine, I didn't exactly find filling in a whole bunch of waterlillies a particularly compelling experience. Laziness, as always = mistakes and cut corners. Which is just one more reason that it doesn't look as good as it should.
On the bright side however, this isn't the end. I wont be leaving it as a simple pencil drawing so hopefully, any mistakes I've made so far can be covered up. On some level I realise that's not the point. The whole final result would undoubtedly (in the future when I actually finish this) look better had I tried my best on every stage, but hey, lets just call that a learning experience.
Next pit stop will be actually finishing that table top in the bottom right hand corner - the area I've not touched because it involves angular lines and most probably a ruler. (I'm trying desperately to finish the whole thing in pencil -not to be lazy and just finish that bit off in Photoshop... but lets face it that would probably be faster - and wouldn't result in me having my hands covered in graphite.) Not to worry though! It will only be completed by soldiering on (and then I get to do the bits I'm exited about - like colour).

<-- Reference images I used when drawing