Wishes and Wingbones Four

WINGS AND WINGBONES FOUR

#aviananatomy #wings #furcula #wishbone

So to finish this sequence there's a recap of diagrams showing why you need to think about avian anatomy when creating fantasy characters

ONE the major wing muscles attach to the keel and furcula

TWO this why birds have a pectoral girdle and narrow hips

THREE so if you were drawing a say cockatoo humanoid hybrid biped where would you place both wings and EXTRA collar bone or how would you change it ?

FOUR or if you modelled your winged biped on say a crane (photo above) with a longer narrower torso note how the long legs and neck probably counterbalance each other in flight and are not just so the crane can wade through wetlands ?


Your choice you can go on using the "but wah its MY fantasy !" excuse or you can create a way to have anatomically correct believable characters who could still be "cute" ?

WINGS AND WISHBONES ONE

#anatomy #birds #wings #furcula #wishbone #illustration

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 !