Harpy eagle drawing in stages

Harpy eagles belong to my favorite raptors, and I feel lucky to have sketched and painted them again and again in both Berlin and Nürnberg zoos. I didn`t have the chance to visit Nürnberg this year yet, but there is a lot of video footage I took last year, and enabled me to do this study using various fineliners.Here they are the various stages

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