It’s a good thing I’m rejecting perfectionism in this 10-minutes-per-day drawing habit thing I’m doing, because the quality of my drawings took a pretty deep plunge in the third week. Enough so that I’m embarrassed to even share them here. But the theme of the week was to be silly and have fun, and to definitely not take myself too seriously or feel like the drawings had to actually be good.

The challenges included drawing with your eyes closed, with your non-dominant hand, and upside down. They also included only drawing negative space, exploring shading by drawing an alien in sunlight, and drawing a subject three ways with your body: once using just your fingers (no wrist or elbow motion allowed), once with just your wrist, and once with just your shoulder, holding your arm out straight and moving only at the shoulder joint. I drew a blood orange.

And it was fun, and silly, and I didn’t take it seriously. In fact, it loosened me up enough to try using a paintbrush with my inks to add a little color. I hadn’t been brave enough to do that before. In the spirit of bravery and posting embarrassing stuff on the internet, here are my silly drawings from the third week of my 30 days of 10 minutes a day.