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Lately I have been paying close attention to the wings on these pyos. I would like some pointers on how you guys do your barring and just in general paint a nice looking realistic wing, I just can’t seem to get it right. :shrug: To my eye, my wings look flat and dull even when I use different colors for shading. The pastels can be messy and not very precise, but when I use paint, I think that looks worse, like a 3 year old’s painting….Any suggestions?
Honestly, I just use lots of layers of different colors to get the hawk wings I’ve painted. (They do look sloppy sorta real close up, but a few feet away they blend rather naturally. I am trying my best to get better at it too. 🙂 )
WindstoneCollector wrote:Honestly, I just use lots of layers of different colors to get the hawk wings I’ve painted. (They do look sloppy sorta real close up, but a few feet away they blend rather naturally. I am trying my best to get better at it too. 🙂 )
WHAT? They look sloppy up close??? NOT! Mine looks flawless and wonderful!!! 😀
I usually start with a base color and also just do layers on the wings and the different feathers… 😉 I think that if you don’t have one you should get a really small brush so that you can detail the wings with… 🙂 Hope that helps… 😉
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I’ll let others more experienced than I speak about their painting approach, but if you want some references to real wings, this site is good:
I wash on a base color and then blend from dark around to quill to light around the edges. (I used to do it the other way around: light in the middle and dark on the edges.) On the few wings where I’ve used barring so far I take my smallest brush and basically make a squiggly line with it, thick base at the quill and fading toward the edge. For more contrast, a darker color goes in the middle of each bar. It’s not frightfully impressive; my painting looks rough up close too. 😳 But it gives the desired effect.
Generally, with or without barring, I don’t use all that many colors.I agree with Jasmine, that site is great! Just what I’ve been looking for to make me brave enough to try a wolf. =)
Thank you for posting that site Lokie! I had found it once before in a random search, but forgot to bookmark it.
Lokie that site is amazing, thank you for posting the link! I have a friend who is an ornithologist, I’m sure he knows about that site but I’ll have to mention it to him anyway!
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