How do you draw angel wings?

ChaosBurnFlame · Post by **ChaosBurnFlame** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:23 am

Ping drew a great sketch of my angelic character 'Divine' last year, to show me how big her wings should be. When I get home I'll try to find and upload it.

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:08 am

Angel wings have structure and limitations? Impressive for something that doesn't exist to the naked eye.

ChaosBurnFlame · Post by **ChaosBurnFlame** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:50 pm

TdotOdot2k wrote:Angel wings have structure and limitations? Impressive for something that doesn't exist to the naked eye.

You should see Ping's sketch. It looked SOOO good.

DancingChaos · Post by **DancingChaos** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:12 pm

Haha! That I shall!!! ^^

LauraSeabrook · Post by **LauraSeabrook** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:00 pm

Gasp - really good stuff from everyone. I'm no expert at angel. I have drawn one, based on a friend...

...and in this case, the wings were based on a stone set of them, from a Cathedral in France. I've also done a "fallen angel" which was me after the 2005 Mardi Gras Parade...

...in this case ithe wings were based on a set of "bat wings" I constructed for the local Goth nightclubs, so of course they had no features.

There's how you can always tell Angels, Demons and Fairies apart: Bird, Bat and Insect wings.

Corgan_dane · Post by **Corgan_dane** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:06 pm

I know I've drawn more angels somewhere.

Here's the one I did for Scarecrow. Always a bit proud of him. He's sort of etherial and glowy, but the basic wing structure is there...

Amazon King · Post by **Amazon King** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:38 am

TdotOdot2k wrote:Angel wings have structure and limitations? Impressive for something that doesn't exist to the naked eye.

Well, gotta draw the line somewhere, though you could always give one the bumblebee treatment.

PF27 · Post by **PF27** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:05 am

An excellent tutorial for drawing feathered wings:

http://neondragonart.com/dp/tutorials/bird.htm

The best referance pictures I can usually find for angel wings would be doves.

ChaosBurnFlame · Post by **ChaosBurnFlame** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:54 am

I have misplaced that wonderful image Ping sent me

I feel sad now, Ping really drew Divine very 'divinely'[/i]

Johndar · Post by **Johndar** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:18 pm

Here's an angel pic i drew for a filler awhile back...

I like to draw the outline of the wing first then just fill it with details.
Hope it helps.

EDIT: I uploaded the image to img shack. Sorry about that, Im a newb when
it comes to my site.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:13 am

Johndar wrote:Here's an angel pic i drew for a filler awhile back...

I like to draw the outline of the wing first then just fill it with details.
Hope it helps.

Johndar, please stop linking stuff from your site. That'll only mess with your hits, and we don't get anything but the anti-hotlinking image anyway.

I suggest you put the picture into Photobucket or Imageshack, then link it from there.

Jinni32 · Post by **Jinni32** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:45 pm

here are 3 wings i really like =)

http://66.199.231.236/wallpapers/amg/amg_26_800.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... ght/02.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... irls87.jpg

kinda big so i linked it only.

hope this helps

Suiren Oki · Post by **Suiren Oki** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:41 pm

This is how I usually do 'em. I found that using the crescent moon shape in black in Photoshop, and then doing another layer to do the outline, and then a 3rd for the color works pretty well.

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Hollowghoul · Post by **Hollowghoul** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:24 am

I think an angel should be drawn with wings similar to those of an albatross.

"I remember the first albatross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas. From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and with a hooked, Roman bill sublime. At intervals, it arched forth its vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark. Wondrous flutterings and throbbings shook it. Though bodily unharmed, it uttered cries, as some king's ghost in supernatural distress. Through its inexpressible, strange eyes, methought I peeped to secrets which took hold of God. As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself; the white thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of towns. Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage."