Creating winged creatures part 2: Wing shape

luxbee poked me, and thus, this tutorial was made!

This right here, is my thesis, I've taken everything and squeezed it down into one long page instead of 100+ pages of dense writing.
If you can speak/read Swedish and want to take a look at my thesis you can read it at this link drive.google.com/file/d/1q5W5w…

Something to think about when deciding a winged creature's function is what its tail looks like. If you give it a long tail it'll be good at maneuvering but very slow, conversely if you give it a short tail it'll be really fast but rather clumsy.

By the way, don't look too much into this tutorial when it comes to how humans perceive a creature's/character's size and shape, instead google/bing/duck "shape language" you'll get a much better explanation from artists that have actually studied the subject.


The many types of avian wings
Part one, Standard wing types: fav.me/danpkgt
Part two, Aspect ratio and wing loading: fav.me/dao4odc
Part three, Wing types based on flight patters and foraging styles: fav.me/daq3zns

Creating winged creatures
Part one, Wingspan: fav.me/dbkv0l3
Part two, wing shape: fav.me/dcx1xpf
Part three, abilities:
Part four, extant and extinct animals:
Part five, mythological beasts:
Part six, creating your own creature:


Stock

Most photographs found in this tutorial belong to the contributors of Wikimedia.
Some stock images come from the wonderful photographers of Deviantart.

Peregrin falson, by Juan Lacruz (2012) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…

Northern Goshawk, by Iosto Doneddu (2014) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…

Arctic Tern, by Dirk Ingo Franke (2007) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…

Crowned eagle, by Derek Keats (2016) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…


BELOST Great tit  belost.deviantart.com/art/Spar…

netbandit Andean condor  fav.me/d7bb4n4

FeatheredSamurai American kestrel  fav.me/d70ljhf