Was watching the Children's Book reference video and decided to give one a try myself with this image of a frog I found on google images.
At first I noticed myself trying to draw exactly what I was seeing just like Will and Jake talk about in the video.
But after a few attempts I started to get a better feel for the shapes and how to exaggerate them to look more cute and like a character version of the frog.
Then I just had a little quick fun adding in some color to bring him to life a little more.