Jellyfish Paintings - Step one Black and white

Here are some paintings of the Jellyfish. At the moment I'm sorting out the contrast on the paintings, then will go on and colour them. I have used two different techniques on these paintings; one was to start with a line drawing then paint over it, the other was to just start painting without an outline and work on the shape. Both styles are good to work with, I found sometimes it is hard to start painting without the outline, but sometimes its good to just see what happens when you start painting.