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Painting Aquila's


MagicMan

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Quick photoshop job:

http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/aquila_example.jpg

 

Use thinned brown/black mix - straight black can be too harsh. Have very little on your brush - you're not doing a wash, but you want your strokes to be translucent. Build up the lines with several passes. You can always sharpen up later with your base colour if you want.

 

1: Draw an inverted cross at the centre of where you want the aquila to be.

2: Bulk it out to be a triangle above the cross line. Add 2 short diagonal lines to the bottom - these will be the tail feathers.

3: Add the heads - these are basically short 7's with a thick top.

4: Add two small x's connected to the bottom corners of the triangle. These are the claws.

5: Mark the curves of the inner wing - they go from under the neck to above the apex of the 7s forming the head.

6: Add straight lines onto the curves to be the upper and inner feathers.

7: Add feathers starting from either side, and work both sides simultaneously, this helps keep the spacing even on both sides.

8: Add the remaining feathers and extend the tail feathers a bit so they look good.

 

Hope this helps.

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