How to draw wings in motion?
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@Griffin ugh my internet cut out as I was replying. yep what @AngelinaKizz says reduce opacity, lots of layers, this is how I would do it
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Thanks @AngelinaKizz and @Asyas_illos! I’m going to to give that shot. I think a lot of the effect will rely on how I color things in as well so I’ll see how it goes
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UPDATE: so I tried that advice for the wings. Definitely helps but I still feel like it’s lacking the feeling of motion. What more could I do?
I know the others don’t look right yet. I’m just testing things out on the front most grumble bee
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Take a page from Zipper from Rescue Rangers?
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Yah you need some motion lines maybe
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Tried to find more examples, you’re right there isn’t much
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@Griffin i would blur the edges, they're too perfect right now to be moving quickly.
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@Asyas_illos thanks for finding these examples! I still haven’t been able to find any others
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My first thought when looking at this were the "flaptors" in Studio Ghibli's movie Castle in the Sky - machines that have almost exactly these types of wings. So you could check some frames from that movie for reference. As I recall, the wings there become almost invisible and are mostly drawn as a series of blurry, white lines to indicate how they are vibrating.
I had a similar struggle a while back when I tried to draw the character Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog, with his spinning tails. Looking back, I think it was the right approach to just draw a blurry shape, where you can't see the wings (or tails in this case) at all - but I think I should have reduced the opacity a lot more. Now it feels more like a solid mass than something rapidly moving.
Hope that helps!
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UPDATE:
blurred wings
Motion lines
Vibration linesHow’s it looking?
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@Griffin nailed it I think
