Deer Birds: can you stay still for a while? You might have noticed that my drawings of deer and birds like in the Raven's Art and Messing Around With Boats posts have improved. This is because I've been drawing them individually, improving my drawings by life study. Now as with the dip pen studies I first did of geese many moons ago you can imagine that you have to draw fast, and you do. It also improves my memory skills, trying to draw what I've seen briefly. Birds unlike deer can move very fast!