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Published: 2013-06-08 13:59:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 7951; Favourites: 392; Downloads: 70
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!BIG FILE!Finished: 8.6.2013
Tools: Photoshop
My previous wing tutorial:
Yayy, more wings!
At first I was about to just redo my old wing tutorial, add a few things and explain them more thoroughly, but then I said screw that and decided to get to the main point.
I wrote the text in one night when I got really angry about some ugly wings and bad arguments for them. xD I had to clean up the text a lot afterwards though.
I decided to keep the appearance somewhat close to the previous tutorial.
Oh, and by the way: I don't own any of the bird images in this tutorial. I have gathered reference pictures on my drive and because I name them with numbers I don't know where I've got them.
So if somebody owns an image of this tutorial and doesn't want me to use it then please tell me and I'll replace or remove it.
The only photo I own is that where I brutally photoshopped my own arms. x) Oh, and the texture on the bg.
I hope you find this helpful! Questions and comments, good or bad, are welcome!
Ps. And of course there's a typo. xD Obsesive -> Obsessive
Sulfur Crested Cockatoo photo by ~chezem
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I'm glad it helped! I've been meaning to improve this and my other wing tutorial for years but never have the energy. :')
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It’s always important to take break, I’m sure whatever you make will look spectacular regardless!
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This will prove useful in my next artwork, i want my bird creature to be perfect in a realistic light!
Thanks so much for this! I can't wait to put this into practice!
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I've wanted to make a newer wing tutorial ever since this one was finished but it's so much work I haven't gotten around to it. I'm glad even this older one has given you some material to work with.
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People argued with you that feathers overlap? I'm reading this right?
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Not exactly. No one has tried to claim feathers wouldn't overlap like that in real life, but some artists are very keen on claiming that they don't need to overlap the right way in their art and that the art could look good even so. I greatly disagree with that. : P Even the most simplistic hands and feet look silly if the thumb is on the wrong side or ankle twists backwards, and feathers are the same thing when it comes to wings. There is the right way and many wrong ways to overlap the feathers.
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Glad you found it useful
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I love this, thank you for posting (:
I agree that it is annoying to find people that are too lazy to study wings, and then use those Boring excuses -.-
I have been studying wings ever since I started drawing birds, and I find that they are so fun to draw. Trying to find out what feathers go where is like a puzzle, and is very rewarding, especially when I get comments like "I love the way you do wings" Etc. 
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Yeah, especially with artwork that's otherwise great, skillfully made in every other aspect but the wings have reversed feathers or are otherwise like straight from an anime.
And thanks for the comment~ Keep on drawing those wings!
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Yes, that is extremely annoying -.-
Or when very skillful artists draw mop wings.
Annoying to no end.
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This is very helpful with a few of my winged characters, thanks for posting this!
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No problem!
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Thanks for this! I love drawing wings, but I can admit that I'm lazy with the actual feathers. This will help!
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Haha, thank you!
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musta tuntuu etten oo halunnu ikinä piirtää näin paljon lintuja ja siipiä kun tän journalin jälkeen. Jä häpeän kaikkia aijemmin piirtämiäni siipiä. Mutta tämä oli kyllä taas hyödyllisin asia vähään aikaan, kiitops siitä ^^.
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Joten ei siinä muu auta kuin kynä käteen ja sulkia rustaamaan!
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voi kiva, nyt mun loppuloma menee piirrellessä lintuja XD
np ^^
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I love this!
Enough said.
PS: Here are some VERY good references: [link]
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Thanks!
Oh, they ARE good!
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This is great! These are really good reference photos! Thanks!
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Yays!! I've definitely gotten better with my anatomy over the years, but I'm always welcome to a great tutorial! Thanks for posting this-- it needs to be known.
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There's never too many good wing tutorials, right?
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Sweet tutorial, I was wondering if you have links to higher res images of the refs you used? I don't think I have all of them ;o;
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Unfortunately no, since I don't know where I got them. (and since I can't credit the artists I don't want to upload their photography art anywhere else) You just have to manage with the smaller versions.
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Oh I didn't mean upload the photos; just links to their galleries if they have a flickr or something.
Thnakyou anyway! I shall have to do some research and find more XD
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But as I said in the description: I don't know where I got the photos because they have just been lying on my drive as my personal reference material. :')
Do that. There's tons of good refs out there!
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Aaah I see. I have... a lot of those too, ahah XD
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Beautiful! Thank you thank you
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Thank you so much! ^^ And it's true. Bad wings are like pollution since they increase because people just don't care. I don't always mind if people draw weird ribbon wings for their manga-angels-OCs, but with animals there should be some sense with their wings. :'D
And thanks again, I tried to make the tuto less boring.
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Thank you for posting this! It's frequently the mistake I always correct people on, myself.
I'm only going to point out another pet-peeve of my own that was mentioned, to poke at you. They're Canada Geese. It drives me nuts when they're called Canadian Geese.
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No problem. I'm the same. : D
Really? Wow, you're right. I must admit I never really checked that. :'D *shame on me* "Canada Geese" even sounds weird to me. Well, you always learn something new.
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It really is people are too lazy to check accuracy sometimes. I used to be terrible at winged critters and decided, 'No, I need to improve and make this look believable'. *Shrugs* If you don't try you won't get better. It's nice to see this posted, though.
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I don't understand how people can get confused at that, it's just pure LOGIC. You don't have to think much to know it... oh, maybe that's the problem, thinking...
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There are many things that are simple and logic but which people don't know because they never care enough to think. : P
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Yes! This is exactly what I need!! I've been looking for good ref. pics and here you have alot
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I'm glad you found this useful!
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Thank you
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Aloin taas etsimään 'tykkää'-nappia... Ehkä heitänkin tämän sen sijaan faveihin, ja nostan ruudun takana peukkua *peukuttaa*
Ja huomasin tuon erään käyttäjän kommentin tuosta, että kun et ole antanut krediittejä kuvien kuvaajille jne., niin vinkkinä että ainahan siihen netistä löytämään kuvaan voi laittaa nimeen edes sen nettisivun, jolta se löytyy. Vaikka muutoin vain numeroisitkin ne kuvat, niin sen numeron jälkeenhän voisi sen osoitteen kirjoitella. Pysyy kuvat vielä samassa järjestyksessä, ja tarvittaessa sen alkuperänkin saa helposti selville. (Jos tämä viimeinen kappale kuulostaa jotenkin itseään toistavalta, älä ihmettele. Kello on näköjään kohta kaksi... Vanhusta alkaa väsyttää xD )
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Haha, liketys oliskin jo jännä asia täälä devassa, vaan mieti jos täällä vois antaa tähtiä 1/5 niin kuin tubessa aikoinaan.
Niin no, toi vois toimia. Jos siis etukäteen todellakin jaksaisin laittaa ylös ne osoitteet. Kun en tosiaan aikoinaan edes ajatellut käyttäväni noita missään tutoriaalissa, vaan ne oli ihan omaan käyttöön, jollon mun ei olis tarvinnut antaa niihin credittejä.
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