#a wing is not a hand
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for months i had this obsession with wing shape.
the majority of feathered wings have an underlying musculature almost akin to a thumb. the primary feathers - sometimes called "flight feathers" - are those long feathers that seem to "hang off" of the wing. they're actually connected to the "hand" (literally the manus) of the bird and can be individually rotated. they are responsible for the majority of thrust during the downstroke, and while the number of them depends on speciation; the majority of birds will have between 9 and 11 of these feathers (as opposed to secondary flight feathers; their shorter partners, which vary from 6 to 40).
i started attaching them to the silhouettes of people, drawing angels tumbling out of buildings and running late to work and skipping class to smoke outside of a 7-11. i drew angels eating apples and doing their homework and pushing their hair back from their eyes and holding a pencil. the margins of all of my poems had feathers raining down the side of the page.
i was in the worst depression of my life and had decided i was giving up on the idea of freedom. i would be a happy wife to a mediocre husband and the angels would come and pass their wings over my eyes and let me feel nothing but numbness. i would have a life like an echo. i would never enter my body without knocking first - it would carry all this weight, and i would be sleeping peacefully, my soul somewhere out there, flying with wings.
she laughed and came over and sat next to me, and smelled of lavender. whenever she talked, a strange harmony stole into my heart; something that was only memory and no words. not an echo - an answer.
inside of her sketchbook were hundreds of pictures of birds.
#this is true and also#almost was a completely different post#about recovery#but no#wlw instead bitch#writeblr#game of thrones was popular at the time.#i was mad about the wing shape of the dragons; at their lack of connective tissue. i kept talking about the hands we have#a wing is not a hand#it is an ecologically significant adaptation#also#bat dragons would have been very cool.#yes i repeated the word echo it was intentional it is answering that above paragraph.
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hearsey's owl moth (brahmaea hearseyi) | ofmoth_andflame on ig
#stim#moths#insects#bugs#sfw#brown#black#tan#white#my GOD look at this moth#it looks like a dang plushie#wings#animals#hearsey's owl moth#brahmaea hearseyi#hands#long nails#ishy gifs#postish
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Me and my bfs long quiet and spectre cosplays!!!
#he hand feathered all of it#slay the princess#the long quiet#the spectre#slaytheprincess#cosplay#first time doing paint!!!#the wings move!!!
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#spn fanart#my art#deancas#supernatural#dean winchester#castiel#destiel#destiel fanart#let's pretend I know how to wings#and the hand raking thru feathers makes sense being so high :^)
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Oh my darling, we’ve been dancing since the start
#good omens#aziracrow#ineffable husbands#crowley x aziraphale#good omens 2#for someone who doesn’t like drawing wings I sure am doing a lot of that lately#we can all thank hattersart for those hands though I would not have been able to draw them like that if not for her
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😔 Oh Crowley..
#good omens#good omens 2#crowley#ineffable husbands#the sketch got out of hand#this series has so much stuff I love to draw like clouds fabrics historical fashion flowy hair wings religious imagery stars sad old men-#I'll get better at drawing actors at some point just bear with me for now#my art
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#wanted to mess with a color palette i saw so just slapped it on the nearest sketch I hate#uhh just dont look at the hands or the wings or the general anatomy or the tangents or#utmv#undertale au#sans undertale#aftertale#geno sans#aftertale sans#reapertale#reaper sans#afterdeath#afterdeath ship#sanscest
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(insert “Electric Feel” by MGMT joke here)
#gale dekarios#bg3#bg3 fanart#I have been practicing composition more recently trying to integrate elements in a cohesive way#his hand is wonky but idk how to draw a hand holding lightning I am winging it lmaoooo#my art
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youre interrupting them
#just a silly little animation practice#that ultrakill map call inspired me to try my hand at animating those robots. nightmare.#so much respect for anyone who does yall are the realest ones#ignore the fact that they have no wings i didnt wanna draw em#also the weird background. i wanted to try animating. camera movements. i dont think it worked. what ever#ultrakill#v1 ultrakill#v1#ultrakill fanart#various meanderings#cw blood#tw blood#Forgot to add those my bad my bad
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I saw your tags for your Apollo design and now I can't stop imagining him cracking his back and he ends up glowing like a light stick for a while skfhdjfk
HAVEJWHAJWNS I mean, there must be a reason that sunrises are often called the crack of dawn//dragged off stage
Still getting a feel of his design here…
#apollo#greek mythology#greek gods#Sun mode: ACTIVATED#playing with him having brown/dimmer hair during light off mode HWKSJSK#I still feel like something is… missing but I can’t pinpoint it#take feathers/wings/bird motifs in my designs out of my cold dead hands
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Lugia comm for a patreon member! Like me a giant seagull <3
#pokemon#lugia#pokemon lugia#artists on tumblr#pkmnart#lechedoodles#commission#commissions#big ol wing hands!
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peace and love on planet earth
#my art#oc art#horst#wof art#wings of fire#dragon art#haunted#fennec#holds out hand. let’s heal together
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african peach moth (egybolis vaillantina) | source
#stim#moths#bugs#insects#sfw#blue#yellow#orange#shiny#african peach moth#animals#wings#egybolis vaillantina#hands#ishy gifs#postish#this moth makes me SO HAPPY#i love all moths don't get me wrong#but have you ever...seen a blue moth like this#gonna be makin a lotta gifsets of these fellers
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Welcome home
#artists on tumblr#cw blood#i really like drawing wings if it wasn't obvious#drawing has been rough lately though#all the A-I trash going around is so depressing to see#please pick up literally any tool in your hand and create#shape something with your own hands#breathe life into something#it doesn't need to look perfect and polished and photorealistic#literally anything any person has ever drawn with their own hands#has more value than every algorithm generated garbage put together#a vent doodle drawn in the math notebook of a 13 yo girl has infinitely more value#than any stolen blendered together soulless algorithm “creation”#we're humans we create#so just#create#with your own hands and your own ideas
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Will Swannie miss his wings? He’s been like that for about a year now, he probably gotten use to the wings and the pain in his calves/legs…would Donnie get like….phantom pain or something because of the missing wings? Would he in some way try to get them back or have a reminder of them? Will Donnie even try or want to dance again?
donnie doesn't usually dance on pointe anymore-- it was a rare occasion pre-curse, and now post, the physical demand is typically too much for him to handle. but when your little brother knows levitation magic, anything is possible for a special occasion.
generally speaking, though?
there's no way he's ever gonna want to stop dancing.
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and... that's it! that's the end!
... well, the end of the main storyline, anyway! the end of the story for swannie that i wanted to tell. the au will still be around! <3 swanatello has pretty much always been built on the asks i've received about it, and i still have more tucked away in my hoard that i intend to get to at some point or another as little bonus side stories, and my askbox is always open as well...! and on that note--
thank y'all so, so much for your support on this magickal girl journey. i NEVER expected to get the amount of love or attention that i did for my silly little donniesona that was based on a pun, but i had so much fun with this comic and am so grateful to y'all <3 like i said, this entire au was really powered by the amount of asks i received about him and his story, and it was really such a fantastic experience for me all around. not including any non-canon crossover content, this comic is approximately 965 pages long! definitely wasn't my plan when i doodled him for the first time as a goof, haha.
thanks, gang. <3 i hope you enjoyed the ride, too.
#he does get phantom pains for his wings sometimes#but his ninpo wings definitely help fill that hole! and are also helpful when walking hard#also once again brownie points to those who spot the parallels#claps hands together. WELL. thats... it! thats the story! the main one anyways...!#im still kind of baffled that its technically finished now lol#thanks again <3#swanatello#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt#tmnt 2018#tmnt 2k18#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt donatello#rottmnt mikey#rottmnt michelangelo#rise donnie#rise donatello#rise mikey#donniesona#rottmnt au#rottmnt comic#rottmnt fanart#fidgetwing
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i flew too high, please catch my fall
#trigun#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#vashwood#tsunosagun art#i struggled with this so bad omg but i like the ideas behind it#took inspo from solar flares for vash and used andean condor wings for ww#the pose isnt exact but the hand on the back.. u already know what scene i was thinking of#edit: added link to the song i took partial inspo from cuz why the hell didnt i do that in the first place tbh#i will say the inspo was mostly the lyrics and that the music itself isnt the vibe i was going for#side note i can see vash as icarus as well (see: icarus by bastille)#(and the idea of an ambition that will kill you wrt to his promise to rem and how his decision to break it is like falling to earth etc)#which makes me go oughhHGHHH
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