You can have a healthy dose of both being informed and practicing self care. Being empathetic is also a good thing, actually.

I honestly can’t choose. I love too many of them. Some of my favorites are clefable, pikachu, vaporeon, palafin, armarouge, absol, meowscarada/sprigatito, grovyle, corviknight, ampharos, wooloo… just too many!

They are both good. Obviously more work went into the realistic frog, but 40 hours is a stretch. It was probably more like 1-4 hours (saying as someone who’s studied realism). The charming quality of the doodle frog is what made it stand out. It’s smart.