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Fan-the-little-demon β€” How to draw wings - resources

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Description first of all, please forgive me my crappy inking, my hands are shaky...and that some of the wings are smaller that the others

I post it here because I'm a huge wing freak and that a LOT of people have trouble drawing feathered wings, even the great artists - my eyes are bleeding seeing the pictures of angels, gryphons, pegasus or so on with absolutely stunning anatomy, great use of colours and BANG! bad wings (did I mention that I'm a huge wing freak? )

it's not really a tutorial, it's more like a reference sheet or resource. I know it from my own experience that to find a good reference for feathered wings is pretty hard and I doubt many people have the patience to study pigeons on their bus stop. I was lucky because my art teacher brought us few months ago a beautiful (and ooooold) book with animal anatomy (from horses, dogs, bats to birds or fishes). so I copied the wings (by hand) from that book because it was a great source. so don't give me the credit, I only put it together and post it here for your use. I only hope it will help you (cuz it did help me a lot)

sooooo my parting words are - have fun with your wings
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Comments: 56

Shana-bloodfire [2016-05-08 00:58:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, perfect! I love it. *Trying hard to draw an Harpy*

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Gryphondrake7991 [2016-01-04 05:53:12 +0000 UTC]

This could be handy when I start learning to draw griffons

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Silvermistrain [2015-12-07 19:06:16 +0000 UTC]

OMG THANKS

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ArtisticNinjaCat [2015-04-24 02:49:36 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial gives me a better idea on how to draw folded Pegasus wings soΒ  Β 

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JeantineHobbit [2015-01-11 15:16:32 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the tutorial!

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Traheripteryx [2014-11-20 22:05:53 +0000 UTC]

Oh, thanks for sharing this!
Right in time! I need this for raptor wing drawing reference!

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DinoBirdMan [2014-11-18 23:40:14 +0000 UTC]

Interesting.

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Omegachaino [2014-07-11 21:38:17 +0000 UTC]

thanks for this

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Birchteeth [2014-04-11 00:43:34 +0000 UTC]

Definitely going to be using this to draw some wings on my bird characters!

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SplashinginHappyness [2014-03-29 03:07:44 +0000 UTC]

A very helpful resource, thanks.

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winterbourne [2014-01-03 17:25:09 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME.

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adventuretime1013 [2013-06-08 01:03:51 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, better than my wings. But I need your opinion on them.[link] . I just want to know if the anatomy is good. Yes, I know the little tufts at the top are a bit cartoonish. You can also ignore the last wing since I just drew that one for fun.

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nightwolf4176 [2013-03-01 13:55:31 +0000 UTC]

Many thanks! this is a great help!

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asataylor [2012-12-27 03:22:11 +0000 UTC]

I cannot thank you enough for this - but THANK YOU!

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stasher-dragon [2012-11-05 18:10:54 +0000 UTC]

Folding wings can be such a pain. Thanks for this.

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Dances-With-Birds [2012-09-26 09:06:27 +0000 UTC]

This helped out a whole bunch, thank you for....copying this from a book and posting it. Lol!

My wings still aren't perfect, but they're better than they were. ^_^

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Oceanbacon86 [2012-08-10 02:24:23 +0000 UTC]

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you!

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FrozenSymmetry [2012-06-21 19:04:45 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! I was trying to find a tutorial just like this!

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168natasha [2012-05-17 10:24:55 +0000 UTC]

omg I was just looking for something like this I just started trying to draw wings last week and this is perfect

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Darkangael [2012-03-15 21:29:11 +0000 UTC]

awesome needing more references for wings thanks so much

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ElementalJess [2012-01-07 12:30:37 +0000 UTC]

O_O Fantastic! Thank yooooooooooooou!!!!

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Fan-the-little-demon In reply to ElementalJess [2012-01-07 12:49:02 +0000 UTC]

glad you like it

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ElementalJess In reply to Fan-the-little-demon [2012-02-29 01:37:58 +0000 UTC]

Also, I can never look at a U.S. Quarter the same again. o.O

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6219000 [2010-04-22 20:34:14 +0000 UTC]

any chance you remember the name of that book?

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Fan-the-little-demon In reply to 6219000 [2010-04-22 20:54:27 +0000 UTC]

nope. it was an old german book. and I mean...really old

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MidgarZolom [2009-08-19 13:30:03 +0000 UTC]

Yay for wings! Very nice job on these, even if they were coppied. I will for sure look this up next time I work on wings.

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stephykins-the-wolf [2009-07-07 20:49:25 +0000 UTC]

will the bird of pray wings work on an angel?

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Fan-the-little-demon In reply to stephykins-the-wolf [2009-07-07 20:56:36 +0000 UTC]

of course if you do them large enough

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stephykins-the-wolf In reply to Fan-the-little-demon [2009-07-07 21:41:23 +0000 UTC]

all right thanks the pictures a great help

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ringtossed [2009-06-26 13:34:27 +0000 UTC]

Wow... Thank you Thank you this is very appreciated!
I love to draw wings and to look at them, but I have THEE worst time drawing them correctly. Thank you!

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Tyrrlin [2009-06-26 01:23:27 +0000 UTC]

You and Nambroth need to chat. She does a "drawing wings" panel at conventions and it's wonderful!

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Queen-of-Randomness [2009-06-25 21:36:42 +0000 UTC]

Very nice!! Thanks for sharing!!

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TaurwenVanima [2009-06-25 20:15:01 +0000 UTC]

Tohle poΕ™Γ‘d shΓ‘nΓ­m, dΓ­ky moc ^ ^

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JamieFayX [2009-06-25 20:09:59 +0000 UTC]

very cool reference!! thanks!

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Mysticom [2009-06-25 19:10:58 +0000 UTC]

So totally collected for my tutorial folder!

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Silenced-Dreams [2009-06-25 18:52:44 +0000 UTC]

Hee, pretty good C:

Here's a great place for references, btw - [link]

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Mamoru-sama [2009-06-25 16:01:41 +0000 UTC]

Ooo, diky moc! Zide sa to i mne akozto moj najnovsi OC je operenec

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Kriraen [2009-06-25 15:28:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for posting this! I agree with you that good wing references are hard to find.

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arevin [2009-06-25 14:13:59 +0000 UTC]

Ohlala, tohle bylo potΕ™eba

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Fan-the-little-demon In reply to arevin [2009-06-25 14:17:04 +0000 UTC]

jj, konecne sem se kopla abych to dala dohromady, snad to pomuze

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arevin In reply to Fan-the-little-demon [2009-06-25 20:01:14 +0000 UTC]

určitΔ› jo, i kdyΕΎ nevΓ­m, jestli budu kreslit andΔ›lovi kachnΓ­ kΕ™Γ­dla

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Fan-the-little-demon In reply to arevin [2009-06-25 20:03:35 +0000 UTC]

XD dalsi kdo si z toho dela srandu!!!

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arevin In reply to Fan-the-little-demon [2009-06-26 11:32:18 +0000 UTC]

nΓ‘hodou, vlastnΔ› to znΓ­ tak ΓΊchylnΔ›, ΕΎe by to mohlo vypadat i dobΕ™e

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Liadeia [2009-06-25 14:00:42 +0000 UTC]

jak na zavolanou

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Fan-the-little-demon In reply to Liadeia [2009-06-25 14:03:17 +0000 UTC]

yay!

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Dragarta [2009-06-25 13:53:45 +0000 UTC]

Tak tohle bude urcite uzitecne operena kridla mi zatracene nejdou...

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Fan-the-little-demon In reply to Dragarta [2009-06-25 13:56:48 +0000 UTC]

malokomu jdou D8 tak snad doufam ze tohle pomuze (skoda ze tu knizku nemam, byla fakt suprova)

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Dragarta In reply to Fan-the-little-demon [2009-06-25 13:59:06 +0000 UTC]

jj taky jsem si vsimla.... ony chybi i nejake poradne turorialy, tohle urco pomuze

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Fan-the-little-demon In reply to Dragarta [2009-06-25 14:03:08 +0000 UTC]

jako par tutorialu sem nasla ale vubec mi to podle nich neslo (spis nez JAK kreslit kridla (jako rozbor peri a kde jaky rostou a kdesicosi) je lepsi videt jak realna kridla vypadaj a podle toho se to ucit) a najit nejaky poradny fotky? to je obcas na zabiti >3>

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AtemusKitten [2009-06-25 13:48:37 +0000 UTC]

thats a wonderful ref chart it would come in handy for anyone who needs to draw wings a lot

very cool!

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