I’m Sure This Isn’t An Uncommon Sentiment, But I Find That, Even As A Wild, Non-domesticated Animal,

would you consider doing wallpaper requests? i saw the ones you made and they're gorgeous!

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thank you!

you know what, yeah, i‘ll do that. I‘ll just need an animal or creature or whatever else and a theme. Wether you want like quotes or sayings and if yes, if you already have some in mind just tell me! oh, and if you want it to be a phone or desktop/tablet wallpaper

(Also, I can’t quite promise when it will be ready depending on my motivation sometimes randomly disappearing..)

so i recently found out / realised that i’m also a bird or something? Not quite sure yet what, but i’m trying to figure it out rn. The first thing that made me realise was that i randomly had phantom wings, completely unprompted. anyway, so far into today i’ve been phantom shifted basically the entire time and here are some things i’ve noticed.

first, when i close my eyes my "arms" become my wings and i’m just like a normal bird. When i open them my wings are attached to my back and i’m generally more like the typical avian-hybrid humanoid.

My feathers are brown with some pattern but i cant exactly pinpoint what pattern.

also, i can look into the mirror shifted without feeling really uncomfortable / disphoric and i can almost see my wings. Like, not actually but i know exactly where they should be in my mirror image and it doesnt make me feel weird.

and i dont like being touched on my back. It just feels very wrong.

i’m still pretty new to phantom shifts and everything cause i only really accepted and started embracing me being not being human like two or so months ago (even though i knew for far longer) so all of this is still mostly very exciting.

T I M E S I N K

Let’s Draw Wings

I’ve gotten the question/request of how I draw wings lots and lots so I’ve decided to make a dedicated post!

Now…I’m no master, but I have found a way that I like to draw wings that’s efficient for me. There three main points: 

References

Simplification

Texture Management

First of all - References

My favorite wing reference of all time is this post by Jenn on Twitter. I have both the images saved but I use the Wing Shapes one, below, alllllll the time. Like for real all the time!

I also keep pretty extensive collections of wing photo reference. When I’m having trouble, I’ll trace a few or do studies to get back into the swing of things. Here are links to my Pinterest boards:

Broadwing Reference (passive soaring and high-speed)

Longwing Reference (active soaring)

Shortwing Reference (elliptical and hovering)

Secondly - Simplification

When I sketch wings, I simplify Jenn’s diagram even further -

For me, the key to drawing wings is simplifying the wing down - from the structure to the feathers - the goal for me is to be able to draw them quickly and have the proper information conveyed. It needs to look like a wing in the base sketch. If it doesn’t, no amount of rendering and extra feathers will help. I like to break the wing into the three main moving parts. The orange is one part, then the purple contains two main chunks feathers that you can group together and move as their own parts. 

On top of that, I like to think of wings like a sheet of paper. They can bend and fold in on themselves, with the orange meaty bits anchoring everything together. 

Lastly - Texture

I like to call wings “texture monsters”. Feathers are hard to manage and can easily make wings look over-busy and muddy. Just like before, I break the wing into chunks so I can spend less time drawing the wing and it’s feathers:

Then you can put it all together and push things further -

So yeah this is how I throw wings together! The wings I draw aren’t super technical or detailed, but I what matters for me is that they look and feel like believable wings at a glance -

~ Larn

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more birdsy stuff;

so i’m definitely an avian hybrid thingy (you know, bird legs, wings, feathers and tail but still humanoid) but i might also be a bird therian? like i can very much see myself as a bird, especially falcons or similar birds and parakeets or similar birds, so maybe something like a cladotherian bird? Idk

Intro post :3 🐋

You can call me Cosmo, I use any pronouns.

my ask box is open and anyone is welcome to use it, i would love getting to know some other alter-/nonhumans!

(This is a sideblog, so I‘ll like and follow from a different one) 🪶

I am currently still a minor, so just. please don’t be weird. Absolutely nothing nsfw please, i don’t like it.

I’m a bird (multiple, not sure) and orca therian, also avian (“fictional” species) alterhuman, as well as cat hearted. 🐈

tags I’ll use: #cosmo chirps - avian/bird stuff #cosmo purrs - cat stuff #cosmo clicks - orca stuff

(I’ll edit this post when necessary)

doodle of avian me:

somethin small i did based on some feelings and how my brain refuses to see ourselves as human in any way.

Pressed Flower Wings~

Spring is here and everything is blooming around me. I just wanna paint flowers everyday

made this for oomf but you can have it too. a little breakdown of my process with bird wings if anyone finds it useful

Killer whales hunting herring (BBC, Blue Planet II)