You Never Know Where You'll End Up

Many times I sit down to tangle,

to draw,

and I have no idea where I'm going.

I just draw lines.

And sometimes it ends up looking like this

when I am finished. 

Hahaha!

Like one crazy mixed up line critter.

 So let me show you how I arrived.

I began by laying down a bunch of curving,

rambling swervy lines and

joined the tails back to some touchpoint

in the drawing. 

Nothing is left open-ended on the outer edge.

(This idea came about from something 

I saw on Pinterest.)

 I just picked a couple sections and

began filling the little worm shapes in

with curving lines.

Some curve under, some curve over.

 And I just kept going until all the worm shapes

were filled with lines.

 Some of those little 'tails' formed shapes which

I could blacken in with a white highlight . . .

 . . . and I noticed they were looking a bit like

eyes, so I connected some more lines

and made some more little eye shapes.

Some of those white spaces began to fill up

with more line work.

 And then it was complete.

Except two of those spaces called for gem stones.

With drop highlights underneath.

And my little crazy critter cried out for  shading to bring him to life.

Comparison for you. To shade or not to shade. This was drawn in a beige colored sketchbook as part of my Getting Sketchy weekly series in Facebook group  Zentangle All Around. Shade? Definitely! And because you just never know where you'll end up, I now have one cute little crazy critter!
What can you do with this line idea? I would love to see what you come up with!