#paintfroge

I’m serious. I don’t mean shitty stick figures, I mean play around with it and just see what you can do without layers, without the constant pressure to keep a steady hand, just go wild

I started doing it for shits and giggles on @paintfroge and honestly it accidentally has been really therapeutic. I’ll be 100% honest, I was inspired to create the blog originally because I love what @catcrumb does and I thought it would be fun to do something similar with frogs. 

The thing is, I’m not catcrumb. While their sense of humor is hilarious to me to consume, it’s not what I produce naturally. I ended up accidentally getting sucked into the drawings and putting a lot of effort into them, but in a completely different way than I’m used to. I’m used to putting in backbreaking hours and tinkering with fine details and trying to make something perfect and always end up disappointed. 

The effort I put into these drawings is... joy? Passion?? I get excited to try new things and I put a lot of detail into many of the drawings, but the kind of detail is like, sloppy, and made with love, and the pieces actually end up looking really good a lot of the time. But the best part is that when I look at them, they make me smile, because they’re just for fun, and they were fun to make. 

And frankly, I would rather make a million pieces of silly frog art in mspaint that make me smile when I look at them than make a single piece that would look at home in a fine art museum. 

So if you find yourself chronically frustrated with your own drawing performance and feel like you’re never getting the results you were looking for, I wholeheartedly think you should take some time to just draw in mspaint for a while. 

For me, picking one subject (frogs) has been really useful because I never have to wonder what I’m going to draw, I never feel like I fall into a slump of no-art until I get inspired by a new fandom or something. There are always more frogs to draw. And I’ve gotten pretty good at it too! If you’d asked me a year ago if I can draw a frog, I would have been like, yeah probably, but it won’t look good. Now? Bitch I’ll draw you TEN frogs. They’re gonna be fuckin great too. I love drawing frogs, it’s fun as hell. 

froge on the brain