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This is for ~acidshadow as an add-on to a comment I made on one of her deviations.

This is the basic breakdown of those tails as I see them. (Yes, yes I do think a lot about anatomy when looking at drawings. = P) Of course, the "parts" aren't really straight like this, but seriously. Ahem. The bending thing: You've got this going, but not all the time. Behind the wing, I'm mostly thinking of the top part, since most of the "hidden" part of the tail is straight. Still, as I pointed out you should still be able to see the edges of each individual part.

Of couse, this model assumes that each... I'm just going to call them cups. That each cup has a point at the middle of it's bottom end that is static, i.e. it's possible movements are centered around this point. Think ball-and-socket joint. I don't know much about anatomy, but it makes sense to me; this way, contracting muscles would be able to curve the tail at each individual joint (if you pull one of the corners of that shape up there down, the entire thing would tilt), meaning each cup could be tilted in a different direction, making the tail rather flexible. Or maybe it's more like a dog's tail dressed in cups, what do I know? Anyway, there's my impression and theory. Hopefully at least one person other than me can understand what I mean.

Description
This is for ~acidshadow as an add-on to a comment I made on one of her deviations.

This is the basic breakdown of those tails as I see them. (Yes, yes I do think a lot about anatomy when looking at drawings. = P) Of course, the "parts" aren't really straight like this, but seriously. Ahem. The bending thing: You've got this going, but not all the time. Behind the wing, I'm mostly thinking of the top part, since most of the "hidden" part of the tail is straight. Still, as I pointed out you should still be able to see the edges of each individual part.

Of couse, this model assumes that each... I'm just going to call them cups. That each cup has a point at the middle of it's bottom end that is static, i.e. it's possible movements are centered around this point. Think ball-and-socket joint. I don't know much about anatomy, but it makes sense to me; this way, contracting muscles would be able to curve the tail at each individual joint (if you pull one of the corners of that shape up there down, the entire thing would tilt), meaning each cup could be tilted in a different direction, making the tail rather flexible. Or maybe it's more like a dog's tail dressed in cups, what do I know? Anyway, there's my impression and theory. Hopefully at least one person other than me can understand what I mean.