It was so hard for me to decide what to draw. Creativity is something I haven’t really had or expressed in a while. I hope this challenge helps me bring that back

Tried the snail twice. Used a lot of ellipses in the first one which I felt went against the exercise and so I tried more definitive lines and shapes in the second. It amazes me how hard this is for me. One day I’m gonna be able to draw an amazing snail like it’s nothing. How cool. Edit: decided to draw it a third time (darker lines) and I noticed my observation improve and I started feeling more comfortable moving my arm and the page to get the right line.

I noticed how hard it was to do very few lines, as in I would have a ton of rotations to my ellipses. Maybe I was ghosting for too long and I was over correcting as I was going, forcing my hand rather than using my eyes. But idk, what do you do?

I did learn that when drawing the outline of the shadow, I still could notice the line I drew instead of it being a “blob” of shadow, and to fix that I just made the area immediately upon the line darker like the middle and it blended it all in and I no longer see the outline of it, even despite the edgy shape. Pretty cool.