Somewhere I belong

the most anticipated animated film in China inspired by a myth from the ancient Chinese Taoist classic Zhuangzi

My take on Hiro meets Tony Stark.

First off, I’d go read Thoughts On Wings by uzlo, it’s the best tutorial on drawing bird wings that I know of!

When it comes to colouring them, you want to remember the feather structure and work with that. I would suggest cleaning your sketches into distinct solid blocks of colour:

then you want to start blocking your shading over the top, softening those layers:

It’s a good idea to do lots of studies of birds! As humans, we have a preconceived idea of what things look like, which doesn’t actually look like the thing.

So use lots of references!

I’d also suggest treating each brush stroke as a feather and building things up gradually: