In the second piece, I wanted to juxtapose the spikiness with roundness. I chose a closeup to get a broad, soft curve from the side of the gumball, and find slight curves in even the spiky points. The openings for seeds (gumballs are seed pods) were also somewhat spiky yet round, so I combined both elements in their representation. The spikiness is still present in that the spikes are still quite prominent and quite pointy. I think this composition was fairly successful, if a bit simple for only having a couple pairs of juxtaposed elements. I could have included the stem, which would be a curve, but I couldn't think of another pointy aspect to balance it.

Overall, I had trouble in that the awful free drawing program on my laptop offers exactly 4 shades of brown, only 3 of which were actually close to what I needed.