Continue with this process until you have completed your frog drawing. And there you have it! An easy frog drawing that only takes a few simple steps. Remember to take your time and enjoy the process.
A Beginners Guide to Painting A Room
Before you start painting your room, make sure you have all the right tools for the job. This handy checklist contains everything you’ll need to achieve a professional finish:
• Paint brush
• Paint Bucket
• Roller
• Roller tray
• Sandpaper
• Masking tape
• Goggles
• Dust Sheets
Types of Wall Paint
What is Matt Paint?
As the name would suggest, matt paint gives a smooth, velvety, matte finish without any shine or sheen at all. This water-based paint is light absorbing rather than reflecting, making it great for hiding cracks, bumps and other surface imperfections. Because of its flat appearance, it’s tricky to clean so avoid using it in high traffic areas – keep it for ceilings and walls in quieter spaces.
What is Eggshell Paint?
Sitting somewhere between matt and satin finishes, eggshell paint has a subtle sheen that really does look like the surface of an egg. Because it reflects more light than matt paint, it has a gentle lustre that brings out its colour and will add a soft glow to a living room or bedroom. It’s also easier to maintain than matt paint.
Other Types of Paints
What is Furniture paint?
Furniture paint is great if you want to transform a tired piece of furniture fast. It’s formulated to give good coverage with just one coat and because it’s water-based it has virtually no smell. You don’t need to sand or prime the surface you want to paint before using it, as it works well over existing paint and varnish, so it’s perfect for speedy but satisfying upcycling projects.
What is Spray paint?
Ideal for awkward surfaces and angles, spray paint can be used for both interior and exterior projects. A 360 degree any-angle nozzle will let you cover tricky corners so you can spruce up a radiator or a wicker basket and enjoy complete coverage and a perfect finish.
How to Paint a Room Step-by-Step
Step 1: Calculate How Much Paint You Need
Once you’ve picked the perfect colour and finish for your room or wall, it’s time to work out how much paint you need to buy.
Start by calculating the square meterage of the wall or room you want to paint by measuring the total length of all the walls and multiplying that by the room height.
Measure your doors and windows and subtract that from your overall square meterage.
Our experts recommend two coats of wall paint for ideal coverage, so multiply your square meterage by two.
Finally, work out how many tins of paint you will need. You can expect 1 litre of emulsion paint to cover about 12 square metres of wall. Paint usually comes in 2.5 or 5 litre tins.
Step 2: Prepare your Room or Wall for Painting
Ok, so you’ve picked your paint colour and finish, worked out how many tins you need to cover your walls and have all the tools for the job. What next?
First, take everything you can out of the room – that’s furniture which is easy to move and any ornaments and pictures.
Next, cover the floor and any furniture which is too big or heavy to remove with dust sheets. Take the curtains or blinds down too.
Fill in any cracks or holes in the wall using a filler and allow plenty of time for it to dry and set completely. Wipe clean and sand down any excess and remember to remove any loose dust.
Clean the walls thoroughly with sugar soap to remove any traces of grease and grime and make sure your paint goes on beautifully.
Use our Frog Tape to tape off skirting boards, window sills and frames and around doors. It reacts with emulsion paint to form a micro-barrier that seals the tape edges, so you get a clean, sharp line when you paint around the edges of your walls.
Apply your primer or undercoat. This provides a base for your topcoat of paint which gives a better finish and makes it more durable when it has dried. If you are painting an old surface that has been painted before, choose an undercoat. If you are painting a new surface or materials that will have to withstand harsh conditions, go for a primer.
Step 3: How to Paint your Wall
How to Paint Your Wall with a Brush
It’s finally time to paint! Give your tin a shake, then open it and give it a stir. Pour some into a paint kettle, filling it half way, and dip your brush a third of the way in, taking care not to oversaturate it (you don’t want drips).
Start by cutting in with your paint brush. This just means painting around the edges of the room and any ‘fiddly bits’ such as skirting boards or light switches first. Always use a step ladder to reach any high sections and don’t overextend.
How to Paint Your Wall with a Roller
Paint rollers are best for covering a large open section of wall quickly and professionally. Pour your paint into a paint tray, dip the roller in and roll it firmly up and down the tray. Don’t overload it.
Use a ‘W’ motion as you move the roller slowly and evenly to achieve the best coverage. As you roll, blend the wet edges to avoid leaving a ridge of paint.
When it comes to awkward areas like behind radiators, opt for an extended roller with a narrow sleeve. For ceilings, attach a long handle extension to the roller.
Allow enough time for the paint to dry completely between each coat, then remove the Frog Tape, take off the dust sheets and bring your furniture and ornaments back in. Sit back and admire a job well done (and don’t forget to clean your brushes!)
Green Tree Frog rock painting tutorial
This is so easy to create with a few steps . Please read the full post as I share with you Most people give up at the drawing . Unfortunately I do not have the time in a day to break tutorials down each day in to a drawing class . BUT here is some direction for you –
My earlier tutorials offer some drawing steps and they are in Techniques you just need to look for them
As I got busier the first thing I did was create tutorials on how to create each step so everyone could learn from those snd apply them to the current tutorial they see.
In Techniques I have how to tutorials of a simple subject to learn HOW to do the technique . Then you need to practise and apply the technique to each tutorial. I also created a full online course – I cannot recommend it enough .
For drawing help …. If you can’t draw you can’t draw You can decide you want to learn and you need to not think you pick up a rock and draw – what actually happens is you have a book and you practise practise practise – with engaging muscle memory the skill will come . Would you like some simple tips on how to get there?
I thought you would … you can try an app called grid# it places grids over photos. Then you can trace your rock outline in your book , copy a grid on top then practise your image . You can also draw the grid straight on to your rock. There are HEAPS of tutorials on grid drawing I have shared in the group previously . You can group search them . My online course also teaches the method .
You can use graphite paper and transfer your image on to your rock. I have shared this method HEAPS of times as well. Group search Graphite paper or transfer method . It is also a method covered in my online course.
Using methods like grid or graphite is not cheating it is a method that helps get the job done AND using methods like these are the start of developing your drawing skill .
Every day I’m not just giving you 4-5 photos and expecting you to get on with it. I am sharing an idea each day and I have valuable learning resources backing you up so you achieve the tutorials as well
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Use a black colour pen and outline the image, Great pens for outlines are Posca 1m, !mr or the 0.7m size in Tooli-Art or Artistro.
And if you want to add a touch of highlight – pop on a few dots and dashes of white paint .
You can find awesome fine Pens to help you with this here
Draw the design on your rock. Click on the image below to learn how to draw on Rocks
Colour on your rock – I have just painted a nice even layer. You do not want to paint it to thick. The more layers on the rock the more chance it has of peeling off later as the water in the base evaporates. Click on the image below to find out how best to paint on rocks!
Shading makes all the difference to the end result. Adds depth to the Image.
I use clean water and a size 2 or 4 filbert taklon paintbrush click on the below image to learn the technique – or head to YouTube to watch how I do the shading.
I would love to extend to you an invitation to an exciting new Rock Project I have put together.
This project is an ‘Online course’ about Rock Painting and it is like no other – This is the first and most amazing Rock Painting Course ! Not only will I guide you through the process of creating Kindness Rocks but find out how Kindness Rocks help support at risk Woman and children in Nepal.
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Step-by-Step Guide on How To Draw a Frog
In this tutorial on how to draw a frog, we will start by developing the basic shapes to establish the areas in which the features will be drawn. From here, we will work on refining the shapes a little, slowly shaping the frog into an identifiable structure. From there, we will move on to working on details as we draw a frog with unique features.
In this easy frog drawing, we will go through a series of steps that develop a simple frog sketch into a realistic frog drawing.
Step 1: Shaping the Frog
We want to start by establishing the basic shapes of the frog and its different features. This is where we want to draw in the basic head shape, body shape, and leg shape. The body can be drawn as an oval shape, with the head attached as a smaller circular shape.
The legs are quite simple, the hind legs bend backward toward the backside of the frog and are fairly larger than the front legs. The front legs sit forward to stabilize the frog and start from the sides of the frog. The front legs also bend slightly as they move toward the front of the frog.
Step 2: Lightly Erasing the Frog
Once we have established these basic shapes of the frog, we now can move on lightly erasing the frog drawing. Lightly erasing the frog drawing is going to establish ghost lines that will assist us as we draw in more refined features.
Step 3: Refining the Features of the Frog
Once we have lightly erased the frog sketch, we want to start working on the outline to shape the frog into a more realistic structure. Starting with the head, we want to make sure that the eyes bulge, this is a unique characteristic of frogs.
We will only need to create an eye bulge for the furthest eye as the eye in the foreground will be seen in its entirety. We can start to work the outline of the frog down towards the arms.
We want to start drawing the digits on the frog’s hands, these can be drawn as thin finger-like shapes. Frogs generally only have three digits in the feet and hands, at the ends of each digit, they also have a round circular structure for climbing.
As we slowly work in linework to refine the form of the frog, We want to make sure that we start to create a rounding in the back of the frog. We also want to start giving more form to the hind legs in the frog drawing.
The hind legs tend to bend so much that they rest on top of the hind feet, which means that the digits of the hind feet should only be slightly visible. We can draw the hind feet similarly to that of the front hands, with three digits.
As we move through the frog drawing and come back to the eye, we want to draw the eye in a circular shape. We also want to draw eyelids around the eye, with lines around the eyelids to suggest bulging from the head of the frog.
Step 4: Shading in the Frog Drawing
Once we have worked through the entire frog drawing, slowly refining the shape, we now want to add more three-dimensionality to the frog drawing. This is where we want to start working on shading to further emphasize the structure and features.
As we shade in the frog we want to consider the main areas that will be dark and light. This way we keep consistency in the shadow placement on the frog and how it defines the dark and lightest areas in the frog drawing.
We want to use line work to create a dark-to-light gradient from the bottom area of the frog. This is going to define a subtle shift of light exposure, where the upper areas of the frog are more exposed to a light source than its underbelly area.
We want to use shading to emphasize the different features as best we can, it’s a good way to bring three-dimensionality to all the features in the frog drawing. We want to slowly work through the entire frog drawing, slowly adding shading to all the features.
Step 5: Adding Unique Features
Once we understand the process of utilizing shading to create three-dimensionality, we now can move on to adding unique features to the frog drawing. This is where we add in spots, stripes, and other details that we feel might give your frog drawing a unique aesthetic.
Frogs have different patterns, stripes, and details, this is where you play around with your creative interpretation of how you would like to create your frog drawing. You can also look to the internet for inspiration for your frog drawing.
Again, you want to also work with adding distinct details to main features such as the eye. A good suggestion would be to add highlights to the eye, this way the eye has a reflective quality that represents its glossy surface.
Another good suggestion is to play around with adding stripes to the legs and spots to the body. You can also play around with the shape of each pot and the sizing of these features. Try to be conscious of how they are placed and how you wrap around features and you draw them.
Continue with adding different-sized shapes along different areas of the body. You want to make sure you are conscious of how some spots and stripes are visible on areas that curve in the body.
The spots also don’t have to be perfect shapes, you can make them slightly irregular in their shape to give the spots a more organic aesthetic. This will seem more realistic as a pattern on a frog.
Step 6: Refining the Shading
From here, we can proceed by adding some shading to the frog, slowly working around the spots and stripes to emphasize them further.
We want to make sure that as we shade, we also shade over the patterns to create a consistency of shadow formation in the frog drawing. This way there is a realistic appearance of shadow and light on the surface area of the frog.
Another good suggestion is to work in some shading around some of the spots and stripes to emphasize these unique features. This also adds more texture to the frog drawing.
At this point, you can also start to work in different shading styles and techniques to enhance her overall textural qualities in the frog drawing. Try to work in some stippling, smooth shading, and linework to emphasize the form of the frog.
Shading is not only for establishing the areas that have a shadow but can also be used to define textures and surfaces within the frog drawing. Allow yourself to explore various shading techniques in combination.
Continue with this process until you have completed your frog drawing. And there you have it! An easy frog drawing that only takes a few simple steps. Remember to take your time and enjoy the process.
Tips and Tricks To Remember
- Establish the shape of the frog. First work out the fundamental shapes that define the different features of the frog.
- Refine the frog shape with an outline. Once you have worked out the general shapes, take your time outlining the frog to establish a realistic frog structure.
- Consider the light source. As you shade, try to keep your shading in the same areas to have consistency within the shadow formations.
- Explore shading techniques for shadow and texture. You can utilize different shading techniques to create both texture and shadows in the frog drawing.
In this easy frog drawing, you are given a few simple steps that provide you with a toolkit to draw a frog realistically. Allow yourself to use these sequences of steps to create a variety of different frog drawings. This unique animal also works well as an addition to many artwork ideas, so start to explore the possibilities within your work.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do You Draw the Legs of a Frog?
The legs of a frog are unique in their structure because of how they stabilize the body. The hind legs will bend, with the knee joint resting over the foot. The hind legs tend to be much larger, as they are used for springing the frog into the air as it moves. The front legs bend as well, starting from the shoulder area and bending towards the front area of the frog. Both hands and feet have three digits, with subtle webbing between each. The tips of the fingers and toes are rounded as they are used to help the frog stick to surfaces. This is the general process of drawing the legs and arms of a frog.
How Do You Draw the Patterns on a Frog?
Frogs differ in their patterns, Which allows for a lot of creative freedom when it comes to creating unique features on a frog. You can also draw a lot of inspiration from existing frog species to experiment with various types of patterns. You also want to consider the angles at which you draw the frog, as its three-dimensional structure will naturally distort shapes and how they wrap around the body of the frog. These are general ways to approach the process of drawing patterns on a frog.
Matthew Matthysen ( Drawing and Painting Artist )
Matthew Matthysen is a multidisciplinary artist. He completed his fine art degree, majoring in History of Art and Contemporary Drawing Practice at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Before joining acrylgiessen In 2020, Matthew worked part-time as an art teacher at Reddford Blue Hills High school. Matthew creates drawing and painting tutorials for acrylgiessen and captures them not only photographically and in written form. He also records the creation of his works in his own creative studio as in video format, from which later with a voiceover and a video editor also drawing tutorials for the Youtube channel of acrylgiessen are created.
