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>>6812806
As someone who had learnt shading recently, I would really recommend you to do the Tonal Bar exercise in Bert Dodson: Keys to Drawing on page 60 (you can easily find it online). In this exercise you will spend 30 minutes practicing shading, it will be hard but that exercise made me understand shading.

You do not need blending for what you want to do, what you need is to work in layers very carefully, and hold the pencil way up and use light pressure. It takes time to shade. Light and shadow represents the turning of planes. As a sphere has very smooth turns, the shading should be smooth, however your shading shows visible lines, especially darkest area. The drawing also doesn't take into consideration the reflected light of the surface.

Also related to shading, another book you will find interesting is the Bargue Drawing Course, it's not a drawing course book in the traditional sense, it just contains drawings, however IMO those drawings will tell you a lot about shading, you will see why.