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

Okay, this is my reattempt for the project. I am getting it more. It really helped to watch the demo and critiques, go back to refresh my memory on value zones, and to spend time studying some real blobby shapes.

This was a bit of a challenge. I don’t think I solved everything correctly, but I’m figuring it out.

After watching the demo, critique, and rewatching the value zones video from the value section, I tried again with a ginseng reference. It is clicking more as I study an object instead of creating my own light source. I did create some shapes and change the reference a bit which challenged my imagination, but I will try to do another abstract version as the instructions stated!

Shading blobs, Level 1 attempt 1! It's been a looong time since I've practised art, so I'm trying to get back into the groove of things. I find this exercise really calming. It's so easy to get absorbed and end up spending way too much time pushing and pulling shadows. I think starting with hard shadows, then softening them like I did with Toad helps save some time. Speaking of which, I'm pretty happy with how Toad turned out. I'm not so happy about my other blobs - they're not bad, but a true sense of 3D-ness is still eluding me, especially with the spiral of blobs in the lower-left corner. I think the main thing I learned from this first attempt is how important it is to mentally separate form shadows and cast shadows. I've confused these in the past which has hurt the design of my shadow shapes. Doing the form shadows first, then adding the cast shadows on the second pass really helps distinguish them. I'll definitely be doing this exercise again. Feedback appreciated!

First sheet has a cactus like blob drawn along the assignment video and a blobby bear from imagination... I think the third photo in the value organization thumbnail assignment is haunting me. For the second sheet I re-drew two of my cross-contour on organic sketches.

A quick first shot at level 1, will look at demos/critiques

More level 1– I’m going to attempt level 2, and then watch the demos and critiques before trying again.

Attempt 1: I’m uncertain of shadow shapes, but I know Stan said not to stress about that at this point! I’m having fun figuring this out!

This is gonna be a project I'll be visiting frequently, for starters I did a quick blob based on the guide made by @Rachel Dawn Owens (Thanks a lot, Rachel!) Getting control on edges is still a fairly hard challenge for me, especially digitally - so this is a project I am looking forward to do frequently.