Soldering

I've never solder before so the techniques used were quite foreign to me. I've welded and brazed before many times and consider myself almost a professional. Unfortunately a lot of those techniques do not carry over into soldering.
Pictured left is my first attempts in soldering - EVER! The attempts in the center high points were my very first tries. You can see that I burned the board pretty good and couldnt control the solder as well as i thought. I really like this board because you can see my progression technique. The 8 points on the right side of the board are what i'd like to call my ''good ones."
The solder covers up the whole
pad and have the nice dollop shape.
Pictured to the right is the other side of the board. I know I could have just the resistors flat down but since this was my first time soldering,and it was just a practice session, I wanted to make a mini forest of resistor trees :)