#mangled wing syndrome

[f-nodragonart]

Yikes! Found on a book at a local bookstore. - I, uh...wow

-Mod Exodrake

[f-nodragonart]

This is how wings work, right?

[f-nodragonart]

I think this might be low-hanging fruit.

PHEW

WHAT IS THIS FROM

(to be fair, I rly do like the idea of “lobbed” wings via cartilage-based webbing, but this is....... a little extreme.....)

-Mod Spiral

[f-nodragonart]

could i get a redline on this? im proud of it, but there are some parts that are really bugging me, but i dont know why…

the cranium seemed too small, so I added some mass to the back of it. the neck looked a little on the thin side (at least at the base of the skull), so I added some more mass to that too, esp to each side where it visibly connects to the skull. I’d also suggest keeping the “motion” of the neck in mind, in relation to the direction of the head. to illustrate this, I’ve drawn a couple arrows on the neck as well:

the right arrow indicates the “midline” of the throat, while the left arrow shows the ‘overall’ direction of that side of the dragon’s neck. typically, you’ll want to use wrinkles (or in this case, fur details) to indicate natural creases in the neck that would imply the neck is bending in some way. thus, I drew lines of fur framing each side of the throat, curving along the midline to the center of the chest. to indicate direction, I started the top of lines closer to the right side since that’s the direction the head is facing, then gradually curved them down to the left where the chest is facing. in your drawing, the line of the throat didn’t seem to follow the curve of the neck, making the neck look like it was completely facing left with a head that was sharply turned right

I shifted the far front leg back because it looked like the shoulder was too far away from the chest. this hid much of the shoulder, though I do think there would still be a sliver visible, as indicated by the thicker red line I drew in that area. it also seemed the upper arm was a bit short on the closer front limb, so I lengthened it, which pushed the shoulderblade a little forward (which is more natural than a straight-vertical position)

finally, I shifted the far wing back behind the body, since the implied length of the upper arm of the wing ought to be a lot shorter as compared to the closer wing (and especially considering foreshortening + wing upper arms being rather short)

and as a general suggestion for lining technique, I think it’d help to use light and/or white lineart for the pieces of lineart surrounded by dark colors (IE- basically all the lineart inside the ‘silhouette’ of the dragon). dark lineart on dark base colors is very hard to make out, so lighter lineart will help make these areas pop a bit more!

hope this all helps!

-Mod Spiral

[f-nodragonart]

More of my old art. The wing-armpit spikes really make this mess special.

-Mod O

[f-nodragonart]

Some old art I did based on someone else’s description of, I think, a poison blood dragon or something? Ignoring the fact that the photo is grainy as heck, the body and wings are so atrocious. What is anatomy?