Bird character designing! I’m quite often frustrated with bird characters and how they often are treated as if they can’t care for the backs of their wings at all. Like- most birds can preen that part of themselves! Also the idea that all birds get weird about preening! Thta just- doesn’t make sense! I get it if the character is a parrot species or something, but like i’ve seen pidgin characters with that trait! Which doesn’t line up with real pidgin behaviors!
i personally am of the belief that if you are making a character winged you need to change their design somewhat! They need longer arms to reach their backs! I also enjoy the idea of bird characters having much longer legs and necks! Its fun to imagine that when bird characters were younger they were much… puffy-er.
Their hair had a dowy quality to it! I also like to think their wings were already almost their full grown size, so you have babys with disproportionately large wings, but they grow a bit more as they get old. The bird characters eat in communities, and have large family dinners.
