trying to get out of a large bucket. Anyway, I tried to think of food and an escaping octopus. That is probably taken too but here are two versions from me... Which do you like best and how could the initial drawing be improved?
but gets across the same emotions. I really like the point of view, too.
@late2theparty Ahh so the hand is not reaching for the octopus, but rather reaching for something else and the octopus is try to avoid being seen? I can understand that a bit more now then. I'm guessing the octopus is part of a much bigger story and this part is in the early stages of escaping. Have you thought about if the hand could be pulling back as though it just touched the octopus by accident and realised that it is alive (although such an elegant hand would be less likely to pick up food without utensils)
For the second image, you mentioned about using the fork as leverage to get itself out of the bun, but it's tentacles should be pretty adapt at pulling itself out of things. Also from that angle the boy is unlikely to have spotted the octopus I would guess. How about if he was lifting up the bun and spotted the octopus under/inside it.