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	Here you can see the benefits of reference material. On the left, the first real sketch done without referring to any photo...it looks more like a chicken. The one on the right was done with just a cursory glance at a photo. The main thing I got from that glance (besides the obvious large eyes), is that an owl has a relatively small beak, hooked like a raptor's, but very small compared to the size of the head. Here's a lesson I learned: In the first sketch, I had the owl looking down at the Oreo, a posture that obscures one of the owl's most prominent feature, those huge eyes (a mistake I fixed in the next go-round, the sketch on the right).