xenozombiemorph:

supaslim:

because it is the bane of my existence to see artists who don’t even TRY to get bird anatomy right, when they’ll gladly put forth the effort to learn mammalian anatomy

BIRDS ARE SO EASY TO DRAW

THERE ARE NOT MANY MOVING PARTS ON THEIR FACE

NOT LIKE US SQUISHY MAMMALS

still debating if I should make my own HOW TO DRAW WINGZ ref or just link to some good ones I’ve seen, since there are a plethora of both good and god-awful tutorials out there for wings already. I’ll probs make my own because other guides neglect to mention that GASP DIFFERENT BIRDS HAVE DIFFERENT SHAPED WINGS BECAUSE THEY FLY DIFFERENTLY

THIS IS AWESOME BUT JUST ONE NOTE

Almost all birds are capable of moving their upper beak, aka prokinesis, it’s just that parrots have the most obvious degree of it.  prokinesis is the movement of the beak at the point at which it is hinged to the skull of the bird.

There’s like a million different types of kinesis to do with the beak/rhamphotheca/whatever but yeah, parrots aren’t the only ones :D

I can’t find any good pictures to demonstrate but yeah, it’s present in almost all birds.  Loons and ducks are good birds to look at c:

  1. the-unknown-saviour reblogged this from ghostkitten69
  2. curiously-fanning-out reblogged this from curiouslycreative
  3. yuuartrefs reblogged this from artiststoolbox
  4. breezys-2nd-filing-cabinet reblogged this from scribefindegil
  5. starieldreamer reblogged this from icantdrawworthshit
  6. thebreloomroom reblogged this from ninuanni
  7. candyspidey reblogged this from art-and-sterf
  8. aza-eith reblogged this from rukafais
  9. duorogue reblogged this from rukafais
  10. mercysewerpyro reblogged this from rukafais
  11. unyanizedcatboys reblogged this from nintenerd64
  12. warriorssurvivalandstuff reblogged this from rukafais
  13. stephanweaverofworlds reblogged this from plant-cell-park
  14. ladywerewolf reblogged this from rukafais
  15. nerd-dot-jpeg reblogged this from cloudyskiesandfireflies
  16. gemtlethem reblogged this from nintenerd64
  17. cloudyskiesandfireflies reblogged this from rukafais
  18. djfalloutwolf reblogged this from rukafais
  19. silverxchariotx reblogged this from ikkani-aa
  20. 9dollface6 reblogged this from rukafais
  21. supaslim posted this