#wing tutorial

[vavoom-sorted-art]

Wing tutorial~

Since it has been asked, I made a little breakdown on how to draw wings.

So, first thing to understand is wing anatomy. I used a swan wing as reference for my artwork. Divide the wing into blocks of feathers. There's sort of three layers to the feathers outlined in the second picture, and these divided along the top joint of the wing where it folds. See the second image. Make sure you bring in these nice, flowy shapes here!

Now that you have these big shapes, you can cut into them and make the individual shapes of the primary and secondary feathers (layer 3.) also make sure they overlap correctly depending on if you are drawing the wing from the front or the back. make sure you stick with a nice rythm and have the feathers get gradually bigger as you get closer to the tip. Like this:

when you go ahead and draw that layer 2 of coverts, make sure that every feather you drew for the bottom layer has (approximately) a feather overlapping it (so you have pretty much the same number of feathers in each layer) and that they line up nicely. But you can also make them a bit more ruffled. Like this:

Other than the flight feathers, the very top part of the wing is very smooth, with shorter, more rounded feathers (almost half-circles!). They can lie very flat or also look a lot more fluffy. think of them almost like overlapping scales. There is also the Alula at the top of the wing, a sort of extra feathery bit that sticks out over the primaries. also don't forget the scapulars which cover over the shoulder blade and are on top when the wing is folded. The Scapulars also have two layers of feathers. (see first graphic).

From there, it's only a matter of lineart and shading or however you want to finish your artwork. Hope this helps with the structure! Drawing wings folded together is a whole other story that I'm not going to get into here... lol.

TL:DR: understand the structure of wings and use references to get it right, work from big shapes to small shapes.

Edit: I demand to be tagged in the results, I desperately need to see more wing art. ÒwÓ

[smiggles]

How do you draw wings so well??? They're so good and I want to draw them like you do :'C

I just...love.....drawing wings so much ahah I made another lil quick thing that maybe helps?

[clockworksoulx]

Just wanted to say your art is super good! I love all the different colours and body shapes and all that cool stuff. I was wondering, how do you draw your wings? They look very detailed and realistic, and I’m trying to get better at drawing dragon wings, so any help or guides would be greatly appreciated :3

Hope this makes any sense

[fulminare-within-her-soul]

Hella messy notes and visual on how I draw feathered wings from a while back because at the time I was seeing so many people drawing…eye twitch- triangles for wings, that it made me want to scream. Hopefully this helps someone, idk. Please excuse my atrocious handwriting.

[moonliiteallniite]

A few stages of the wing making process... I'll make a longer post once they're finished (maybe with steps? I loosely followed a youtube tutorial)

[corvid-feathers]

Here's how I make feathered wings

step 1: Draw curved line

step 2: make a kinda curved shape

step 3: repeat that shape until wing is preferred size

step 4: use everything previous as a sketch and line over it

[keyonreferencesnresource]

Take a look!

Take a look! https://pin.it/PeJwiM5

[angstandhappiness]

Neat

Woe, my passion project be upon ye-

And that's it! For Now!!

Thank you so much for reading and i hope it comes in handy for any of your wingies needs :3 This took me... a While, more than it should've, but is finally here! And maybe i've been slacking a little on the tagging for this blog specifically, but i recommend besides reading all of this, to go check my Guides tag, as i'm missing a few little things here and there that i couldn't for the life of me find a way to explain, and i've already re-done this Way too much for my liking o(-(

But you can also just go around this blog to get some inspiration :o I got a Lot of different wing styles here, and again i gotta go back to tagging (and fix my blog web theme, don't worry about it—) but other than that, you're free to explore this lil blog of mine

Two last things—First, i did all of this for free, i want it to reach as many people as possible (which is why soon-ish i'll translate the entirety of it to spanish and add image descriptions to both versions, i need a break....), but if you liked this enough and would like to leave a lil' tip on my kofi (@/rainbowpinyata), i would appreciate it a lot... Second, my inbox is always open if you or someone you know is in need of a more in-dept explanation on any of the parts of this, as i had to resume most of the info, or just needs a little bit of advice. I'm gonna explain wings Much more than i already have on the next part, but that... is going to take a bit, so...

Anyways, many thanks to my friends for always being there for me, i don't think i would've gone past the first draft or the many others after that without their encouragement, suggestions and general help with keeping me going. It means everything to me.

Also, click for better quality pls, the pages are pretty big but... this site....

[shrubsparrow]

It's in the eye of the beholder

[smiggles]

Wings anyone?

[sapphirecatgirl]

Seeing this and saving it for future reference!

So here is my basic, opaque, organza fairy wings tutorial. This was done for Stella from Winx Club, but it was a lot easier for me to do than other wing tutorials I found that included organza and hand-sewing. If you would like a more legible version of this, I can e-mail a pdf, just please inbox your e-mail. Thank-you and let me know if you have any questions :) I should be completing this costume relatively soon.

[glassshine]

Moon and Kinkajou kill a man part two

part 1

[awanqi]

Wing Tutorial is HERE 🦅, now available on my Patreon✨ It includes full speedpaints, a step-by-step of the painting process, drawing tips + more!

[amayensis]

Bird wing drawing tips! 🪶 I made a sheet of cool tips that I learnt these past months and wanted to share. I uploaded the full sheet on early access for my Patrons!

I hope you will enjoy this sneak peek 👀

Edit: it's available for public viewing now! (See link above)