It’s hard to draw a robin. Actually it’s hard to draw wildlife, there’s so much variation and everyone seems to know what what you are trying to do should look like.
One of the ways of achieving consistency over sequential art is to break down the subject into repeatable forms. The easiest way of doing that is to grab some photos (the net image searches are great for these) and put them in your favourite art program. Here I am using procreate on the ipad. Set the image pretty big, then spot the main forms, and draw the construction lines in on a separate layer.
Delete the photo underneath your drawing, and shrink down the drawing so you can see it but you can put a few images on each page of the same subject.
After you have a few of these images in different poses, spot the biggest forms to get the proportions. (Red here)
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