This is a closeup of an illustration in an old Time-Life Science book in my personal collection about #birds . It shows the the bottom of the wing joint the keel bone and the wishbone or Furcula of a bird.
Many illustrators and artists when drawing winged bipeds disregard avian anatomy and when asked about it use its my style or fantasy or the clients fantasy as an excuse.
Now i'm not saying you should draw angels with a massive keel bone but if you're drawing some kind of winged biped hybrid or alien thats avian or modelled on an avian please please please just stop drawing wings like they're stuck onto the back.
Yes birds have large pectorals attached to their keel bone but they do have muscles around that wing joint ! This diagram averages things out but over the next few posts I'll be showing you some reference images I've compiled. Meanwhile until the next post study these two images.
and yes I will be discussing the biped with wings issue !
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