But this time il be somehow broker and more anxious. It hit me with “start saving your money” and the way even the heart of the cards won’t let me support a small business by getting take out 😔

Kinda knew it wasn’t gonna be a good reading because the cards literally fell out of the box

A four page comic of my frogsona doing a tarot reading for the month of April. I shuffle the cards and say “okay let’s see what April has in store for me” and I deal out the cards. I open the book with the meanings saying “and this means” and the inside of the book says “you will be broke and anxious this month” while I say “aw dang”

The heart of the cards was a bit too real this time, was nothing new but I was hoping for like some good news this month #comic

A photograph of my two pet Whites Tree Frogs Ditto & Icarus Toast sitting inside a plastic castle with a draw bridge. Ditto is green with gold eyes and has one hand out the door, Icarus is brown with black eyes and he has one hand on Ditto and the other outside the doo

A photograph of my pet Whites Tree Frog Beans climbing the corner of the tank. She is a light blue with a pink-white underbelly and gold eyes. Behind her are some red leaves and she’s looking at the camera giving an expression like she is stuck

But I am really enjoying trying to catch the subtlety of some of the photos. I see these frogs every day and that doesn’t make them any easier to draw

A photograph of my Whites Tree Frog Ditto, sitting on two large oranges. In the background it the tank. Ditto is green and has a big smile on their face

A photograph of my pet whites tree frog Ditto where I forgot to turn the flash off my phone. They are green and their eyes are purple yellow from the flash. They are sitting in a bowl with a nuetral expression and have their arms hanging out of the bowl

A photograph of my pets Whites Tree Frog Icarus Toast. He is brown with completely black eyes. He is at the edge of a blue bowl of water look over it, he has his hands brought together and he is in shadow so it looks like he is scheming.

A photograph of my pet whites tree frog Icarus Toast sitting on some blue green plastic. He is brown with a white underbelly and all black eyes and he is staring straight at the camera

The stamps aren’t perfect recreations of the photos but I’m trying my best

A photograph of 6 hand painted stamps based on photographs of my frogs against a cardboard background covered in paint stains. The first one is of a green and brown frog in a castle door. The second is of a green frog sitting on two oranges. The third a frog with giant eyes sitting in a bowl. The fourth a blue frog against red leaves. The fifth a brown frog sitting at the side of a blue bowl of water and the sixth a brown frog sitting on a green piece of plastic

I got a stamp punch on Monday so I decided to make some tiny art based on photos of my frogs, aiming for one a day and seeing how it goes #frog

In fairness to the worms I did have to uncover them to discover this, they were trying to be discreet

A four panel comic where my frog sona opens the worm box and says “let’s get some worms for the frogs”, they pick up a particularly long worm and says “wow that’s a really long worm”. The next panel looks at the worm in detail and there’s a big censored box over the middle of the worm because it’s actually two worms. My frog sona looks down at the worms and says “Oh…” realising what they are seeing

Obviously the freaky worms were returned to the box to do whatever they were doing in peace 🪱 #comic

It makes their lifts so much more impressive then

Convinced it’s not real tbh that everyone’s lying but my trainers do actually get the buzz so these people work out amongst us

I really just hate that the solution was actually very simple and all that was stopping me was my own laziness and the fact that I don’t get a buzz from exercise

Literally had this where it constantly felt like someone kicked me up the butt and a few months of exercise and it was just gone. Hate when the thing that’s good for me is actually good for me

Really wanted to do this specific tarot card because I’ve scheduled myself some adversity for 2026 and while I know I can overcome it, I simply wish there was no adversity

Rare moment when the scanner does not betray me colour wise but does betray the fact that I am unable to create straight lines

A photograph of five similar drawings of a frog version of the star tarot card at different stages, from sketch to partial to the final piece on the bottom right. A frog with two jugs pours water out both, one into a pool of water the frog has one leg in and the other onto land where the frog has the other leg. Behind the frog is an apple tree and a mountain in the distance. The sky is lit by 8 stars.

This took so many attempts because I didn’t have a clear plan for my colours and approach (very important for watercolour which I learn every time I do one)

A mixed media piece based on The Star tarot card. A frog with two jugs pours water out both, one into a pool of water the frog has one leg in and the other onto land where the frog has the other leg. Behind the frog is an apple tree and a mountain in the distance. The sky is light but 8 stars. There is a gold border around the piece

Emerged from my art hiatus to do a frog tarot piece for @gra-phite.bsky.social challenge, every once and while it’s nice (not nice) to challenge myself with a traditional piece #art

What’s even worse is I’m not even swole, so like no one knows I be lifting weights. There is literally no obvious benefit here (except it no longer feels like someone kicked me in the arse)

Nothing worse than when you can’t sit without pain, had to invested in those donut pillows and it was all because I have to cycle to work 😔

Absolutely hate when the solution to something is something I don’t want to do. Like all I want to do is sit but now I gotta do weights to sit down pain free??

Like no joke, I had terrible pain that made it feel like someone kicked me in the arse constantly and the minute I started exercising more it vanished. Absolutely raging honestly

A screenshot from HBOs Hannibal, mads mikkelsen looks disheveled looking down off camera and says “I gave you a rare gift. But you didn’t want it”

Absolutely no one:
Squee:

Please understand I love Ditto very much and all this is said affectionately

A photo of my pet whites tree frog Ditto. They are a pastel green with patches of brown and a white underbelly. They are sitting very politely with a big smile on their face. There is absolutely no sentience behind their eyes

If you think the tragically born without a brain is harsh then please meet Ditto: they refuse to have gender and have never thought once in their entire existence and I genuinely believe lack the capacity for thought

Drawing for myself? No why would I want to do that
Drawing for the frogs where at least one was tragically born without a brain: they need this like yesterday

A photograph of three small crayon drawings on a cutting mat. The first one is of a smiling frog on a lilypad on some water with some rushes in the background on a sunny day. The second is of a smiling frog with its back to us on a beach at sunset. The third is of a smiling frog sitting on some leaves

A photograph of my pet whites tree frog Ditto on a pink couch stuck to the glass door of the tank. Ditto has a blank expression on their face. I have stuck 3 small drawings to the outside of the tank for my frogs to peruse

People kept sending me that video of the girl who drew and stuck up art for her frog so I gave the people what they wanted and did the same. Nothing but the best for my babies 💅 #art

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A overhead photograph of my pet whites tree frog Beans in her bath, Iv taken the photo to get a view of her shape from above

What am I gonna do with my new found skills? Make a Beans model. Already started gathering my refs

A completed donut is a badge of honour, people who don’t have one will look upon me jealously

I haven’t had it in me to create anything in ages but in the face of a lot of RAM I could either play my old ass city builder or make a donut (I did both)

A image of 3 3D iced donuts with Lilypad sprinkles on a white ceramic plate on a marble table. Drawing on top of the image is my frogsona doing the wojak pointing meme at the donuts. A crude drawing of my pet frog beans is on the donuts

Got one of works old animation computers which meant I had no excuse to not defeat the optional boss of artists: the blender donut