#membranous wings

[fantasy-anatomy-analyst]

How are humanoids with bat wings supposed to wear crop tops or two-piece outfits??

very sexily

(image description: a bat humanoid wearing a two piece outfit held together in the middle with a pair of crossed chains. the crop top portion is a dark red with a circular lace pattern. it has a collar and upper arm bands holding it in place, because there is no room for it to go around the back with the wings in the way. the lower half of their outfit is a pair of baggy dark blue pants with a light grid pattern on them. the pants dip low under their tail and rise higher on their belly, held up by the chains that connect to the crop top. they also have multiple ear piercings, a choker, and a pair of bracelets. end description.)

as long as there's a way to ensure that their clothes stay on, you can get as creative as you please!

[otiksimr]

*slides a Molopoly 100*

May we please see more of the bat? I love Lunala and youre was super cool. Was that bone around its neck?

Yup, it is very much bone.

Lunala and Solgaleo are still very much revered as deities in many parts of Alola. Though depictions of them can vary wildly.

[quixot1sm]

white kyurem and black kyurem?

[bonestrewncrest]

alduin but with brachiopatagium

[psygull-arts]

Couples See Man-Sized Bird…Creature…Something!

a few mothman sketches to celebrate us finally running into it in our Delta Green campaign. surely this isn't an omen of anything

[ls-tbl]

She

PLS click for better quality!! Tumblr wtf..

[twisting-roads]

headshots + broadcast colors of all my iterator ocs (with finalized designs anyways. oh and sorry fester isn't here either I really didn't feel likeit)

you can tell I did the last row way after I did the other rows because its inconsistent :sob:

[chipper-smol]

NEW BUDDY

the wings have wire in them for support, but the body is standing on its own >:3

[verm1c1de]

some kind of,,, beaft,,,,

[lorebird]

Wof design idea: 🧬🍄🪸

I clipped a random pic of a coral reef onto them and painted all their colors that way <3

[puppyeared]

couldnt decide on drawing fish or horsies

[fantasy-anatomy-analyst]

Do you have any critique for the designs of the Mudwings or Rainwings (from the Wings of Fire novels?)

okay, you know, i think i am going to just use this as a chance to talk about the most common pitfalls for dragon wing designs.

Wings of Fire designs are fine. the style is nice, the dragon designs are each unique enough from each other to stand out in their context. i can handwave some things about their anatomy because of the more cartoonized style and i will ignore the trope of making the evil dragons look distinctly more animalistic because it's clearly a series made for a younger audience.

but it still falls into the exact same dragon wing design problems i see absolutely everywhere. I've done it, you've done it, every single person who has ever tried to design a dragon in any style has done this. my points here are all based on the most common dragon wing type, which is the bat-like wing.

lack of patagium (the membrane between the shoulder and wrist) the Wings of Fire dragons are a bit awkward because some of them do have it and some of them do not and there does not seem to be a reason for this difference. the patagium is important! you really should have it on any dragon with that bat-like wing shape.

wing fingers extending past the membrane, especially with claws included. why are they doing that. when are those claws going to get used. wing fingers are built for the specific purpose of moving the wing. the only finger that should be extending out on its own with a claw is the thumb. unless you want to do pterosaur wings, in which case there are a few forward-facing fingers and one very long finger acting as the wing frame. honestly, more dragons should have pterosaur wings, they're an actual real life flying reptile and some of them were huge. please, we need more pterosaur-winged dragons.

membrane being way too deeply scooped between the fingers even when the wing is extended. this one makes me think people just don't actually know how wing membranes work. they are not a stiff material at all, but a very flexible type of skin. it should fold up between the fingers and near the body when the wing is withdrawn, but stretch out tight when the wing is extended. i know the scooped shape Looks Cooler but it's not very functional.

wing fingers being too stiff. those things move! they bend! they're very bendy! bats fly with a lot of finger curling. here are a few videos in slow motion that show the fingers and the flexible membrane really well: video 1. video 2. video 3. a lot of dragon designs i see just use the shoulder of the wing as the main point of motion. they won't even change the elbow angle. now, the elbow will never be fully straight in flight, but it should move too! I think one of the reasons people don't do this right is that it's just easier to use fewer points of motion in animation and obviously all dragons in motion are animated ones. but when you see it even on the hyper realistic style of dragons in things like Game of Thrones, it gets pretty frustrating. make those wings flex more. (and by mentioning the GoT dragons, I know they do move more than just the shoulder, but even their wing finger motion is very stiff, like the fingers only have one joint and the membrane doesn't move as much as it should)

elbow strut. you know what i mean. that weird little bone strut on the elbow on like every dragon design ever. it gets in the way of some very important membrane motion. it does not exist in any real life membranous wing that i am aware of. the closest you can argue for is that the yi qi, a dinosaur that might have had a membranous wing and also feathers, does have an odd strut-like bone and we don't know exactly how it was positioned. but from what i've seen, there is at least a consensus that it was connected to the wing hand, not the elbow. it might have been positioned parallel to the forearm and thus would create a strut-like shape extending at the elbow, but that's not how people draw the elbow strut on dragons. it always looks like there's just a weird stick attached to their joint. it serves no purpose. the reason people do this on their dragons is because they design the membrane poorly and need to add a strut to give the wing a bigger membrane. but this can be avoided if you just attach the membrane lower on the body to give it more surface area, and also let it stretch taut instead of making it scooped like it's slack even when the wing is extended. just do more studies of bat wings in motion and you'll have a better understanding of how your bat-like dragon wings should work.

[filurig]

A LITTLE ARVO REVAMP. bcs aspects of his design didnt really feel fitting for him AND i wanted to include the different breeding plumage gray herons have in his design!! also have a bonus of his "real" human design as well taking this one into account

really the difference is just the feet and face pattern gets slightly more saturated during the warmer months xD again this is what he "really" looks like - the solid colour silhouette is metatextual for the most part

[thegargantuangourdii]

Speed running carpel tunnel >>>>

Augh tags.......

[artwork-and-tingz]

ermmm some wof au dib concepts, i like to make his wings take the role of his trench coat

[borbology]

Part one of my Meta Knight doodledump. The theme here is that I wanted to focus on his wings.