my attempt

I first drew and shaded random blob shapes I came up with. I later followed along with the demo and did two of those blobs. In following along with the demo, I see where I could have done my first blobs differently.

Some first attempts, but I really didn't do a great job with the spaceship !

heres some more, the larger shapes i did this morning and the smaller ones i did just now

Here's my submission, not feeling quite happy with these, i think i did the middle one the best though. I could push my values harder i think, but most of all i need more practice with edges in general and making them transition much more cleanly. On the one of the right, the top bit is supposed to be a cylinder form, which goes down into a boxier sort of bloated for that has a hard turn at the bottom, but the cylinder part really doesn't feel right with it's shading, and the mass of the boxy form doesn't either. I'll probably be revisiting the shading a sphere after this, and continuing to do this as a warm up for a few days until i can work up to something i like

I started with a graphite pencil on newspaper, but that was kinda hard and took quite long, so I switched to charcoal pencil. Not something I've done very often and I stained quite a lot! I also found that imagining where the adges / shade parts must be can be difficult when it is not obvious or when something is in front of it with a cast shadow. I'm thinking that I want to do this assignment later in a bit smaller scale, because I feel there is a lot to learn while doing it.

I tried to do one without the blending stump just so I would get a feel. As usual, I just need to do a lot more of this.

Happy with how this turned out. I was kind of aiming for those western desert sunset vibes. I need to remember to use darker pencils next time around, because I feel like the image lacks contrast. I just used a single B to shade the whole drawing.

A bunch of blobs + the snail from earlier in the course and a blob-bug

Blobs were shaded. Who knew it took so long to shade blobs? Interestingly, I thought I was done, but after uploading my exercise and seeing it as a miniature thumbnail, I can see some issues, particularly with the contrasts on the bottom one - should have done some squinting! Blobs were shaded and lessons were learned.

Here are some blobs and one of my ginger root People... I feel that I understand the principles of values and edges but strugle a lot in the execution. A soft transition that still preserves the shapes and the correct edge its such a hard thing to acomplish (even in the digital).... Any help, tips or feedback would be apreciated.

A fantastic challenge to read the light and transfer interpretation on to the page. Did try a couple of level 2 faces too, the realness of the opportunity to interpret seemed to be a bit less of a challenge than pure blob. One can easily see how important it is to shade decently among all the other skills demanded here. Good learning, good fun. Will come back to this often.

Here are some of my blobs.

Constructive criticism is invited. Used the airbrush (Krita) for these drawings, with only 4 values.

I originally thought that this exercise was a little limited… after all, how interesting could a blob be? turns out: you guys are incredible! Seeing your work is inspiring.. my contribution perhaps shows the limitation in my imagination.. particularly when it doesn’t have to “look like” anything. I’ll keep working at it!

Hi, what do you think about my boxing shrimp? I was a bit confused by the tail, since it's below the body, it's supposed to be in complete shadow, but since the light is coming from the top, I was wondering if some light would touch the tail (since the tail is pointing up).

Spent couple days working on these. What I found most challenging was mapping where the shadows fell on an imaginary surface and especially cast shadows . It was like working blind, I didn’t know what the blobs would look like until I started shadow mapping based off the invented light source. Overall I had fun!!!

Playing with the idea of edge a very exciting exploration