Penned Eagle

Firstly, many thanks to *RavenSkunk for the fine avian stock photography. In addition to being a fantastic bird photographer, she's also a mighty cool person all around. Reference used is this one: [link]

The reason I chose this is because you can really see the roof of the mouth. I've been researching dinosaurs, and coming up with nothing for the mouths since it's all fleshy material that doesn't fossilize. But then of course, the proud lineage of theropods continues to this day. And nature is, above all, frugal in design.

So yep. Figuring out ways to render mouths with micron pens. I took 'in-process' scans, which could at one point be put together into a walk-thru, if there's interest.

EDIT: for a walk-thru of this drawing, go here: [link]