Back in the day the ability to render an insect or plant in an elegant and expressive manner was a real skill people with an initial were taught, or self taught

Back in the day the ability to render an insect or plant in an elegant and expressive manner was a real skill people with an initial were taught, or self taught these skills - llok at the old bird and plant books from those days. Now we have photoshopped digital pix, we have gained as well as lost...