Quillweave

Drawing realistic wings is, I presume, a challenge quite a lot of artists have come across. Maybe you want to add a couple small birds to a scenery, maybe you want to draw griffins or winged wolves, maybe even winged humans (otherwise known as "angels"), or maybe you're actually interested in the birds themselves. Either way - just how did those wings look, again? How large should they be, and how do they move? In other words - time for another tutorial. Some basic wing anatomy First of all, we need to take a look at how exactly a wing is built up. A wing is, of course, the bird's version of a human arm or an animal's front leg. You have a shoulder joint, an elbow, a wrist and fingers - the phalanx being the most important of those. Notice the kink in the elbow joint here. Because of it, an outstretched wing will never be completely straight, but always have a slight V- or U-shape close to the body. (In addition of being anatomically correct, this also helps the wing to look more