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I felt anxious. I tend to judge my drawings rather harshly. I wasn't concerned about the branches and leaves and enjoyed drawing them quickly, the warbler I fussed over a lot more and worried about how accurate it looked.
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I tried not to block out the page and just go for it. As a result, my branch was not exactly as it should have been, nor the position of the bird on the page, but it didn't really matter.
I wouldn't have noticed the bird's nostril or the various lichens and mosses on the branch and not the wing feathers, piled or folded so neatly. When journaling, this would make a difference as I might want to investigate the mosses and lichens for example.
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