If you’re finding it difficult to draw birds for this year’s Draw a Bird Day, don’t get discouraged! Even famed naturalist and illustrator Abel Chapman had difficulty drawing birds sometimes, as evidenced by this page from his 1913 Sudan sketchbook.
Full text with many other drawings of birds (and other animals) here.
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