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I can't sleep😵 I drew some turkey vultures (top row) and a harpy/siren (bottom row) today (still a work in progress). Think I'm getting on the right track of where I want to take my harpy/siren design, sort of a very speculative-evolution/cryptid/animal misidentification way, but keeping some mythological/fantasy aspects to it. There's two morphs of the harpy; one mainland based, the harpy, and one marine/island based, the siren. Still working on details and origin story for them. Due to a catastrophe, the harpy, relative of turkey vultures with a pair of inflatable chest sacks and a beautiful call, was forced to inhabit a chain of fey-touched, small islands. The lack of predators and abundance of easy pickings in form of island creatures and miles of shoreline to comb for washed up creatures, made the harpy grow in size, and ferocity. When island resources declined, and competition rose, the harpy sought after food at sea, where the only abundant creature were weary sailors. The fey-touched islands' arcane radiation made the now ferocious and once again desperate harpy, rapidly evolve to take advantage of this resource. And so they developed behaviours, enhanced by their features, to charm and lull sailors into shipwrecking or to ket them close enough to slash and tear at their throats. #harpy #siren #mythology #greekmythology #specevo #fantasy #fantasyart #creaturedesign #fantasyzoology #worldbuilding #turkeyvulture #vulture #fantasyevolution #evolution #cryptozoology #art #sketch #sketchbook (at Stall Myra)