Eris's Art!

my main is @apollos-dodgeball-target | I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY ART BEING USED IN ANY AI ART PROGRAM OR DATABASE.

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starting a series of art

siempre me quedará

pt. 1 | ascension

pt. 2 | cozy, content, contentment

[wandaluvstacos]

I am such a huge horse nerd and I apologize. :( But I’m really tired of seeing girths that are halfway down a horse’s stomach. This may not be interesting to anyone who is not me, but I like to draw fancy saddles and ridiculously long shanks on bits. Also, horses are the only animal I can draw, so I take advantage of that.

I hope this helps some frustrated non-horsey artists in at least some small way. Remember, when in doubt, add some buckles and some rings. :)

[the-composite-doll]

@horsefigureoftheday here’s a cheat sheet on horse tack.

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THANK YOU

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cringetober 2023 day two - self insert

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cringetober 2023 day one - heterochromia

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for ai reasons, I will not be posting here until further notice. im sorry guys

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here’s a wip of my d&d character

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how much fun are we having in this timeline folks?

[nicki0kaye]

Time to download and run all your works through Nightshade before posting them anywhere. Poison the data sets.

[silverquillsideas]

Reminder to artists, webglaze is also developed by the same ppl as nightshade, and it's very useful too!

GLAZE ALL YOUR ARTS BEFORE YOU POST THEM ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET

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Working on an oc ref sheet! Missing the wings though. I’ll add that later.

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heavy wip here :)

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art I did for a dtyis (I’ll link when I wake up fully)

[samwwise]

“[Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s wings] were created for Season 1, but we redid them as they needed more complex behavior. The wings were animated to follow Crowley’s and Aziraphale’s body movements to enhance their emotions. So, there was a bit more animation work involved with this. It was more complex in the way that feathers behaved since we had to have proper feather interactions. That was the biggest sequence for sure in terms of volume and complexity. It was a fun and challenging sequence.”

—Matias Derkacz, Visual Effects Supervisor, Milk VFX

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have a wip y’all :):):) (<- about to give this girl (gender neutral) so much trauma)

[vavoom-sorted-art]

Wing tutorial~

Since it has been asked, I made a little breakdown on how to draw wings.

So, first thing to understand is wing anatomy. I used a swan wing as reference for my artwork. Divide the wing into blocks of feathers. There's sort of three layers to the feathers outlined in the second picture, and these divided along the top joint of the wing where it folds. See the second image. Make sure you bring in these nice, flowy shapes here!

Now that you have these big shapes, you can cut into them and make the individual shapes of the primary and secondary feathers (layer 3.) also make sure they overlap correctly depending on if you are drawing the wing from the front or the back. make sure you stick with a nice rythm and have the feathers get gradually bigger as you get closer to the tip. Like this:

when you go ahead and draw that layer 2 of coverts, make sure that every feather you drew for the bottom layer has (approximately) a feather overlapping it (so you have pretty much the same number of feathers in each layer) and that they line up nicely. But you can also make them a bit more ruffled. Like this:

Other than the flight feathers, the very top part of the wing is very smooth, with shorter, more rounded feathers (almost half-circles!). They can lie very flat or also look a lot more fluffy. think of them almost like overlapping scales. There is also the Alula at the top of the wing, a sort of extra feathery bit that sticks out over the primaries. also don't forget the scapulars which cover over the shoulder blade and are on top when the wing is folded. The Scapulars also have two layers of feathers. (see first graphic).

From there, it's only a matter of lineart and shading or however you want to finish your artwork. Hope this helps with the structure! Drawing wings folded together is a whole other story that I'm not going to get into here... lol.

TL:DR: understand the structure of wings and use references to get it right, work from big shapes to small shapes.

Edit: I demand to be tagged in the results, I desperately need to see more wing art. ÒwÓ

[pallanophblargh]

Hey there! First of all, I love your art and seeing your creations always brighten my day. Keep up the great work! Second, I've been trying to draw harpies and I keep messing up on wing anatomy, like how wings fold or how they appear when they're semi-folded. I can't figure out where all the feathers go. Do you have any pointers?

Thanks so much! I had been meaning to answer this ask visually when I wasn’t half asleep or buried under work, but I felt bad for delaying so long. So I hope a quick sleepy tablet scribble will suffice:

Yeah, getting those feathers to face the correct way is important, as well as knowing the outer portion of the wing folds under when not in use.

Aside from that, hoard reference photos! All of them! Draw from them as often as you can, I’d recommend drawing from photos of white “clean feathered” birds like waterfowl or gulls, terns etc. for a start, since their feathers are more hard edged and it’s easier to see what’s actually going on. Owls are… yeah. Hard. Don’t start there, start with swan wings! Much better.

I wouldn’t take art of folded wings as gospel (I mean, there are some disturbingly cringe-worthy “tutorials” for them out there) and instead use anatomical drawings and photos as your guide, they will start you out on the right path!

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Self Portraits

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Self Portraits

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