How To Draw Angel Wings

Angel wings are normally seen as huge feathered white wings sprouting from somewhere around the back of the shoulders. If you have ever seen the movie Dogma, this is the look I will be trying to create here. In the first drawing below I have sketched in pencil what looks like an arm, but the hand at the end is being extended flat, pointing to the right.



Next I added a large curve over the "hand" area to create the large boney curve we see at the final joint in real wings. I then started to add individual feathers, small at first along the underside of the wing, larger the nearer to the long end of the wing.

  

Finally in the lst two drawings I continues adding more feathers, overlapping to make them less even and more natural looking, and added an outline for the angel character themselves. You can see that the wing itself is attached to the body somewhere behind the shoulder.

  

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