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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nickderry" data-source="post: 1520333" data-attributes="member: 12328"><p>If you want to produce something like a picture, an aesthetically pleasing end result, then yes, a bit more would perhaps be a good idea - but this is your sketchbook - the place where you record what you see and learn about birds, and here, you learned what angles were on the bird at this point, I doubt that had you been trying to see too much, you would have been able to record this important detail. The essence of the bird is not in its detail - you can create tension and movement with stick figures, once that's there, detail can be added.</p></blockquote><p></p>