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To Draw Nature, Pick Up a Pencil and Really Look With a few basic tips you can begin to draw the creatures around you, and remember the joy they bring.

Valentino Dixon’s “Untitled,” a composite image of four drawings in colored pencil on paper. “Prison is a dark place, and drawing became a survival tool,” Mr. Dixon said.