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Published: 2011-09-22 03:42:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 93067; Favourites: 3846; Downloads: 1859
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I finally finished my wings and flight tutorial! Feel free to download it for personal use, but please do not repost this tutorial without my permission.One thing to keep in mind is that my drawing of the flight muscles has been modified to allow you to see the supracoracoideus. In real life, it would be packed under the pectoralis, which would touch the furcula. The furcula is springy and absorbs energy as the flight muscles push against it; it also serves as a brace to support the thoracic skeleton during flight.
In the reference folder of my gallery, you'll find a few other tutorials and lots of bird reference, including one on raptor feet, which might be of interest to people drawing hawks, gryphons, etc: ciameth.deviantart.com/art/Cia… The rest of my photography is not stock. If you want to sketch from my pictures, that's fine--just credit the original photo if you upload your drawing online.
The Feather Atlas is a growing resource of high quality feather scans by the US Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory. It is a great place to learn about feather shapes, particularly if you want to compare the difference in shape between the feathers on two very different types of birds (like a seagull and sparrow). www.lab.fws.gov/featheratlas/i…
Some slow-motion videos of birds can be found at these links. Youtube uploader Ultraslo is an especially good resource: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAz1L8… www.youtube.com/watch?v=hecXup… www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPQ1vn… www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q97Nn… www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWNOUA… www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RvRO-…
My raptor foot reference:
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Comments: 181
Very nice work. I came here looking for feathers, found 'em, and learned how to draw my dragons' legs while in flight! (one of the things I can't ever draw right) So thanks!
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Very cool! A lot of hard work went into this! Great job!
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I love this tutorial. I did have a question I figure since this is so informative I would ask you see if you have an answer that can help me.
I have a commission of a Pegasus its wings have been severed and there is only a piece of it left, ive been seeking bird anatomy looking for the "best" place sever a wing that would still give me some plumage and not look horrifying lol
So what place do you think would be the best place to "sever" a wing?
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If you want most of the wing to appear gone, anywhere below the elbow would work. You'd still have fluffy coverts and tertiary feathers to show remaining flight plumage and there wouldn't be as much of a "horrific" amputee appearance to the severed limb as you would get amputating higher up because most birds have a short-looking humerus anyways (most of it gets covered beneath the body feathers). It sounds like an interesting commission. Glad you liked the tutorial, and I hope that helps!
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Thank you 
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Wonderful tutorial! I'm trying to illustrate a story about griffons and this is exactly what I need. Very helpful! thank you so much!
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This one is a pretty helpful tutorial on their wings thanks 
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this is so helpful! and i love all the funny little comments, especially the owl. that made me laugh for a while xD
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Amazing tutorial! This will be very helpful to me.
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This is amazing and funny. Practice makes perfect. ; w; Winds are a weakness for me, but I hope not for long~
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Amazing detail here, thanks for all your hard work ^^
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Wow, this is a awesome tutorial
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I am trying to start drawing pictures of my own griffin character. This is an enormous help!
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Your tutorial helped me a lot, thank you very much
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Your work has been featured as one of #Birds-Club 's top art submissions for the month of November. You can find the article which also contains other beautiful bird art here: [link]
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This is probably one of the best tutorials I've seen on anything, ever. Just enough information, worded well, with just enough references in the right way. Love it.
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I don't know if I will try to draw something one day, but this is great
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This was very helpfull! You did great job!
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You can never have too many wing tutorials! I particularly like Section VI. Hexapods are strange creatures to draw and I like your solutions to the many problems they pose
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Excellent guide. Wish I'd had this when I was doing the wing design for my game!
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This is wonderful!
I always have trouble with wings.
Thank you!
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With credit and a link back, it's fine.
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Very nicely done. Thorough and educational. I especially love the part that focuses on wing shape. Definitely a fav.
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That's a very good tutorial about wing anatomy! Had some troubles with that, when I was drawing the snail kite haha...
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This is very usefull^^ I've added tomy tutorial folder. Birds are pretty hard to draw and I wnat to get better at them^^
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This is incredible. The amount of detail and research that is in this is astounding. Great work!
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This is amazing, and it will help a lot. It's one of the best wing tutorials I've seen, and I love the 'Birds in Flight' section. The way feathered wings work, especially the feathers in flight, has always given me trouble.
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Wow! This is amazing! I'm inspired to start drawing gryphons again after reading this. Thank you!
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I love you so much for this that I want to make eggs with you. X-D All your tutorials are great and this is probably the best quick-reference I have ever seen on the topic of wings. Gonna print it right now.
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