He's talking to the bird because it helps his mind slow down and focus on trying to draw it. Once locked in, he is oblivious to everything else around him, which is a good thing because around him ...

I t takes a lot of patience to draw a wolf. They are also super intelligent, and you can see it in the way they look at you.

In Aesop’s fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, the titular boy repeatedly lies ... In southern Africa, there’s a bird that epitomises this lesson: the fork-tailed drongo. “They’re demonic ...

Draw a rough circle in the top right quadrant of a square sheet of paper; this will become the bird’s head. Next to it, starting at 7 o’clock, add an oval twice the size for the body.