Really? I'm not sure, I intended them to be sort of 90 degrees, but meh i'm over with that drawing anyway.
In other things, I've been experimenting with emulating chromatic abberation, using Space Engine screenshot as a subject image.

the effect is best seen at the bottom left corner and slightly on the top of the gas giant, at full res.

Chromatic what now? I'm assuming it's that faint colour overlap in the mentioned places, but it's entirely likely that i'm just too tired to spot it.

also i blasted an art block by doodling a dargon in three different ways


AM SUPER ORIGINAL OOG OOG

Now if only dinosaurs still existed so i could study their legs. I suppose things like cats and dogs provide reasonable estimates (dinosaurs had an erect posture, i consider dragons to essentially be winged dinosaurs (but not pterodactyls or archaeopteryxes or whichever mesozoic creature that had wings instead of front legs)), but hey.

You might wanna have a look at bats as well. Not because they're relevant, but because they're awesome.

I did, actually. That's how i know that the wings are ridiculously small, since bats have a relatively lighter body, yet still proportionally much larger wings. I suppose the problem is that i doodled them fanned out rather than folded together. :U

With fantasy creatures I suggest following two key points for minimum size when drawing wings. These are largely based off personal observation and have no scientific or mathematical backing to them.
1. The span of one wing to the spine should at least be roughly equal to the length of the creatures body, 3/4 length can still look fine if the creature itself looks "light"*
2. The length of one wing when folded should at least reasonably fit within the area between the forward shoulders and the base of the tail when looking at it from a side profile. Once again this can be shorter if the creature looks "light"*

*Such as if the creature has a lithe body or a bulky one.
Example image. (pretty much just the torso with lazy attempts at defining where the legs and neck would have been, but it serves the purpose.)

Yessir that's it, in real life it's something to do with the edges of the lens slightly splitting up the colours but I'm not sure.

It's funny how a little CA can make some images feel more realistic, shows how much we've gotten used to looking at pictures I guess.

CA just feels lazy to me, digital artists use it all the time and it takes away from the focus of a piece. To me it detracts from a good piece of work, just as a lens flare or slapped on grunge filter would. Why anyone would want to replicate a broken camera lens is beyond me.

Depends on what you're showing imo. If it's an object or something small/singular then I wouldn't do it. For larger scenes/animations or real time stuff it can work alright, if used in (great) moderation.

It can look fitting in moderation, depending on the subject matter, looks fitting for something retro or retro-futuristic, because it gives it the look of an old photo, not so much when you've got a knight on horseback in a field, just makes me ask why there is someone going around Medieval Europe with a Polaroid camera from the '90s.

Funnily enough Lens flare kinda has the same principle nowadays, modern cameras don't have it.
It's funny because lens flare was originally used to give the perception that a digital image was taken with a modern camera instead of drawn or modeled.
Absolutely amazing how times change.


EDIT: So I drew this sketch from my mind today, I have to say I think the posemaniac sessions have helped dramatically.



Also yes there is a huge block of whitespace on the left side, I will be using that for the background, I think.

I took some pictures of my cat. Spoilered for bigness.

When you said "bigness" I figured you meant like 2000 pixels wide or something.
Not two and a bit larger than my monitor. =p

WIP panel for a comic a friend and I are making. Just a quick collaborative sketch. (Edit: WTF COMPUTER?! It cropped the image to to like 1/3 size without me telling it to. )

To use stickmen for animations you can google Pivot animator.