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Reptangle — Wing studies
Published: 2012-01-30 21:32:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 8509; Favourites: 353; Downloads: 132
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Some sketches of the undersides of various kinds of wings, drawn from real wings.Top left, mallard duck,
top right, chicken,
bottom left, thrush
bottom right, morning dove done on scratch board
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Lots of details you put in here. These looks really nice (especially one on a scratchboard)
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Birds birds birds birds <3
I would not have guessed the mallard duck. The way the feathers lie close to the body is very interesting, but I guess it makes sense with the way they fan out in flight.
Doves have such pretty wings.
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Even your sketches are wonderful. Thanks for sharing this ^_^
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Great studies! Amazing creatures.. and some of those guys fly of this weird constructions, ah.. that nature!
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Whoa... these are... wow... snap, that's....
Yes.
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I really like your comic! And you have been at it for two years?? Congratulations! I know how much work that is.
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Thank you! Yeah, two years and no sign of stopping since I've got a HUGE story to tell 
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That is fantastic, I really admire your work!
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You're making me blush! 
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The differences in the feather shapes, structures, and sizes are interesting to see here. Nicely rendered, as ever. I particularly like the painstaking detail in the dove's wing.
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*carefully looks at the order of layers on the feathers*
Why... that IS the underside!
Sometimes, I wanna just shake my fist at some artists who draw their bird's wings upside-down. One time, I commented to a professional artist, one whom I looked up to, something like. "Hay! Your wings are backwards!". And when she asked me to show her how to draw them wings... I think I shy-ed away, Star-struck shyness. I thought, she's too famous for me to consider telling her how to draw. I wonder if I should still tell her?
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Awww.. you shouldn't have shy-ed away! You noticed something important and seems like that person didn't offended you, actually wanted to know what was on your mind!! Popular/not popular, we are all people and we make mistakes.. I believe everyone sometimes needs a little poke and advice 
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Notice that the chicken wing I drew here has the first few primary feathers reversed!I was surprised to see that, but that is how the wing was,so I drew it.
I think they just got messed up somehow.
I am always surprised by the way real bird's wing feathers go, even when I think I got the basic concept. There is always something I didn't know.
I have been looking hard at my macaw's primary wing feathers, they are way more complex than I first thought! They have so many different compound curves going on...it is amazing. I need to draw one of his wing feathers.
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My chickens are always having misalignment in their primary feathers. I think it's not as important to them because they don't rely on flight as much? Plus, they are chickens and have other agendas.
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