I began using basic shapes like rectangles and squares. Using those shapes, I pulled at the anchor points with the direct selection tool until it looked vaguely like a head or a segment. I then used the warp tool to push it around and smooth it out.
Later, I used the pen tool (on the back segments near his butt) and the brush tool and found that those worked really well, too. I hope it's not too noticeable that I used many different techniques. Many of the segments on his back were copy and pasted, slightly adjusted, rotated, etc. and put into place. The two smaller legs are actually the same, I copied the first one and rotated the segments so they wouldn't look copy-pasted. Hm.
His eyes are just ellipses. His head was originally a rectangle. His legs and back segments were also rectangles. His teeth were 3-sided polygons. His bottom jaw is a combination of rectangle and ellipse, combined and warped. I touched up my paths with the pencil tool. A few of the belly segments near his butt end were drawn with the brush tool. I used the charcoal brush stroke - I thought it looked very artsy.
I'm a total newbie when it comes to Illustrator. This was my first attempt at making a complicated piece. It was quite a struggle.
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