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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.

Killer whales hunting herring (BBC, Blue Planet II)

Aquatic arts from this and last year! 🌊✨🐋

no wings, no claws, no feathers, legs the wrong shape, too big, too small, no fins, can’t hold my breath, no whiskers, body too stiff, no tail, no fangs, no cat ears, no fur, can’t even sleep on my stomach cause my ribs fucking hurt

Orcas are the largest of the dolphins and one of the world's most powerful predators. They're immediately recognizable by their distinctive black-and-white coloring. Smart and social, orcas make a wide variety of communicative sounds, and each pod has distinctive noises that its members will recognize even at a distance. They use echolocation to communicate and hunt, making sounds that travel underwater until they encounter objects, then bounce back, revealing their location, size, and shape.

Wing tutorial~

Since it has been asked, I made a little breakdown on how to draw wings.

So, first thing to understand is wing anatomy. I used a swan wing as reference for my artwork. Divide the wing into blocks of feathers. There's sort of three layers to the feathers outlined in the second picture, and these divided along the top joint of the wing where it folds. See the second image. Make sure you bring in these nice, flowy shapes here!

Now that you have these big shapes, you can cut into them and make the individual shapes of the primary and secondary feathers (layer 3.) also make sure they overlap correctly depending on if you are drawing the wing from the front or the back. make sure you stick with a nice rythm and have the feathers get gradually bigger as you get closer to the tip. Like this:

when you go ahead and draw that layer 2 of coverts, make sure that every feather you drew for the bottom layer has (approximately) a feather overlapping it (so you have pretty much the same number of feathers in each layer) and that they line up nicely. But you can also make them a bit more ruffled. Like this:

Other than the flight feathers, the very top part of the wing is very smooth, with shorter, more rounded feathers (almost half-circles!). They can lie very flat or also look a lot more fluffy. think of them almost like overlapping scales. There is also the Alula at the top of the wing, a sort of extra feathery bit that sticks out over the primaries. also don't forget the scapulars which cover over the shoulder blade and are on top when the wing is folded. The Scapulars also have two layers of feathers. (see first graphic).

From there, it's only a matter of lineart and shading or however you want to finish your artwork. Hope this helps with the structure! Drawing wings folded together is a whole other story that I'm not going to get into here... lol.

TL:DR: understand the structure of wings and use references to get it right, work from big shapes to small shapes.

Edit: I demand to be tagged in the results, I desperately need to see more wing art. ÒwÓ

Off topic, but have some fishes for now