This is a spontaneous set of shapes I worked up today while sitting on a jury panel in the courtroom.  I call it "Dog Paw".  It perhaps suffers a little from being under drawn - but this is the extent of my progress so far.    

FLIP IT AROUND  I actually liked how the thing works upside down a little better.  Once scanned, I pushed the blacks down.  I think some of the mid tones dropped  out.

Here is the final color rendition with a few other touches.  Just add this one to stack for now. I'm moing on.

Ballpoint doodle

some shading trying to unify the larger shapes and clarify some kind of figure/ground sense to the thing.

just trying to strengthen the main shapes and simplify the light

adding some ambient surface details and not sure I like the saturated color

Getting too picky about small details - time to give up