Hello! Can I Do A Request For A Canary/song-thrush Birdkin And/or A Druid/dryad Eldritchkin? Tysm!

Any artists here who draws themselves as their kintype differently than what they’d actually look like?

For example, as a light fury, I KNOW that I literally just look like the Light Fury from the movie. However, when I draw myself, I like to personalize how I look more by drawing myself like this instead:

So anyone else make “OC” version of their kintype that has more artistic freedom when drawing yourselves, or do you just stick to what you would actually look like?

i have no wings and i must flap

i will live in my own cob house.

Humanoids with wings: feather edition

(Description: a digital painting of my own character morianten. He is a young man with warm tan skin and large feathery wings plus a matching tail, sitting on a rock. His wings and tail are light blue on the inside and dark green on the outside, with black and beige stripes respectively. He also has two longer feathers on his tail, soft fold feathers on his back, and more feathers all over his body, arms, and face, including feather-like hair pulled into a ponytail.)

This is just a brief introduction post because oh man I have a lot of thoughts on this subject and it is taking a while to organize them concisely.

I love drawing wings on people but the anatomy sure can be frustrating. Where do the arms go so they're not in the way of the wings? Where is the best placement for the wings? How would that skeleton and musculature look? Maybe not necessarily questions everyone asks, but I sure do. Winged people often eend up looking a bit photoshopped, because it's easier to draw a person and then draw wings and not worry too much about how they connect.

But if you want to go into more detail with a realistic appearance, my next series of posts should help. I will discuss how I've modified the skeleton and muscles, as well as some basic explanations on feather structure.

And here are all the posts in this series:

Skeletal Anatomy

Musculature

Adding Feathers

Why Add A Tail?

i love the others of these i’ve been seeing so i made myself some custom ones heheh

if you want one made send me a request on my side blog @strugglekin with your kin, pronouns and a colour!

Okay my life got unexpectedly busy so I dont have art for this, but:

10 concepts for architecture, furniture, and minor lifestyle details when writing societies of winged people (any wing type)

1. Since people fly all the time, most of the buildings are probably up higher, with walkways between them. Winged people would invent amazing suspension bridges long before they invented a wheel (see also: the mountainous regions of central and south america, where wheels are not very useful, but bridges are extremely important)

2. Doorways would probably be wider and taller to better accommodate wings, no matter how they're held at rest (ex: if you want fairies with dragonfly wings, their rest position is out to the sides. So wide doorways would be important.) And doors would more likely be sliding doors rather than hinged doors (so you don't have to worry about stepping back and aside for the door, you can just walk through and not risk having your wings bump stuff)

3. Speaking of wings bumping things! Tall ceilings, wide hallways, and absolutely zero breakable objects at potential wing bumping height. The walls are basically bare from shoulder height on down.

4. Hammocks and nests instead of beds. Any form of sleep furniture must be built to let people comfortably sleep on their stomachs, possibly curled up into a fetal position with their knees beneath them. Lots of pillow piles. In the same vein, any lounging furniture would be built with either no back or a very low back. Maybe things like couches and chairs that just have a single armrest to lean against, but no back. Lots of sideways lounging. Any tables would have stools rather than full backed chairs.

5. Wing care is important. This will vary based on the style of wing you're using. Feathery wings will more likely lead to a culture of social grooming and feager combs. Maybe every bedroom has a wall with a feather comb to rub up against. Chairs that seat two so they can help each other groom their feathers. Bat wings would need regular bathing routines, probably some very nice large tubs in their homes for a proper washing, also a social grooming culture around that. Insect wings, I'm not sure exactly. They don't need cleaning the same way. But they are easier to damage. And we know from real life that they can be repaired and replaced! So perhaps a society of people with insect wings would get very very good at prosthetics and wing modification.

6. Wing flapping creates wind. So maybe people would hang up windchimes to hear when people come and go. Theres a lot of wing flapping involved in the landing process, so wind chimes would be an effective way to notice when someone has just landed at your doorstep.

7. Big windows, easily opened. Sometimes you just dont want to use a door. The door is the formal entrance, but windows and skylights are the causal entrances and exits.

8. Consider nomadic winged people who migrate seasonally: they would probably develop a lot of lightweight gear to help them migrate with all their belongings. Hammocks, communal huddling, possibly advanced cartography skills, special devices to distribute weight between multiple fliers carrying a large object together. Special carrying devices to hold children, elders, and the injured.

9. The outsides of every building would have many perches, especially social buildings. Rooftops are just another social space. Ladders are commonly used by anyone who cant fly for any reason.

10. Pretty much anything they make is going to be lightweight but hard to break. More carved wood dishes than ceramic ones, archery more than swords, very light clothing with open backs. But paper maybe not so much. It blows around too easily. Maybe they invent voice and image recording devices sooner than other people so they can more reliably record information in flight.

And that's 10 ideas for world building with winged people! @wolfeyedwitch I hope this is helpful to you! And to anyone else who may have been having trouble thinking up little details for their own winged folks.

Ello! *Pops in from the void* If you haven't already done a request like this before, could I request some tips for a Blue Jay therian?

tips for a bluejay therian

pt: tips for a bluejay therian

wear a blanket around your shoulders to feel like wings

get your nails done like talons

make/commission a therian mask

practice vocals

snack on nuts and berries!

go on a nature walk

try out bird watching!

collect feathers!

do some bluejay inspired makeup looks!

if you have short hair, use gel/hairspray/etc to make a bluejay inspired crest!

make a blanket nest at home!

collect fun little shiny things or rocks!!

be a little trickster!! corvids are known for their antics

hope these help!! bluejays are one of my favourite birds! -🩸

Requests open!!!

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if you haven’t already maybe a spacekin/voidkin moodboard with a blue and purple glowing theme?

spacekin/voidkin alterhuman moodboard with themes of blue + purple glowing!

no more gender. I would like to be an evisceral void thing that's vaguely friend And foe shaped.

will I eat you? yes, but only so you can travel the stars with me

"not looking at someone when they're talking to you is rude"

okkaaayy welll i cocked my imaginary ears in your direction to communicate that i was listening so whose fault is it really