diving back into my sketchbooks with bird studies

In second grade, I borrowed The Tale of the Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter from our library and was utterly enchanted by her darling watercolor animals. Ever since then, I had a deep desire to write and illustrate my own stories; however, even though I had plenty ideas for characters and plots, I did not have a knack for art. I still gravitate toward illustration and animation, including reading a…