Further forays into realism. I’m happy with how it turned out,...

Further forays into realism. I’m happy with how it turned out, but I do have mixed feelings about pursuing realism as an art style. As practice, it’s great; there’s a lot of technical art concepts that I need to learn about, understand, and put into practice that you learn best by studying life as it is. All of that experience will then inform your individual art style, whether it tends toward the realistic or is  low-brow silly and more “amateur”-looking. (Hey, an amateur is just someone who loves what they’re doing! And so to be an amateur is nothing to be ashamed of, in itself.)

Part of my antipathy towards realism is that it takes so long to do (there is a point where I lose patience with any drawing or painting). In the scheme of things, two and a half hours is still time well spent, but what if I could do it more stylized and get the same personality of the frog in a mere 10 minutes?