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@-) WOW lally! These are amazing! I would love to see one of these on a watercolour beastie - especially the nacre/watercolours. Great job :x

Wow! That is awesome! @-) :x

These are amazing! @-)

@Wolvevenfrosst Don't worry, it can take a little bit to get used to any new art program! For starters, for the wing, pick the picture you want (lineart, shaded, or full greyscale) and save it to your device. Go to your barn and find the horse you want to use, and long press to save image. Go to ibispaint, and in the new canvas section select "import photo" rather than selecting a canvas size. Once you import it, there's a little box that pops up with something about editing the photo - hit cancel to that, otherwise it makes the whole thing greyscale.
Once you've got that base, there's a button on the bottom taskbar that has a small number on a square. Hitting that should get you to layers. Inside layers, there's a little matching photo button to the first that allows you to import a new photo. You'll select the wing, it'll import, slide it around until it's where you want it, then hit the little green checkmark.
From there, you can play around with layers on top of and below the wing until you get the color you want. If you selected the full greyscale, you'll want to make a new layer above it, then in the layer menu there's a little drop down that reads "normal" - hit that, and change it to "overlay", then select the color you want and scribble on top of the wing.

My goodness!!!!!! @-) i'm in love!

These are so beautiful. :x

@SandyCreekFarm Actually, it would have to be a separate set of muscles to allow for movement of front legs separate from wings. In humans, the most likely placement would essentially be a second set of pecs below or partially under the first. In horses, that extra set of muscles for the upstroke would be connecting just above and overlapping the spinalis dorsi, and possibly tucked partially under the infraspinatus depending on width, then connecting to the wing. These muscles require less power, as the upstroke is the easier of the two. (Using the names seen here: https://goo.gl/images/Hhx7yS )

The downstroke would require a larger muscle (the breast you eat in birds is large due to this). It would probably be wrapping over the rib muscles as it came off the wing, and would likely be attaching at the other end to the chest - specifically, the ribcage, which would have a reinforced bone plate as the regular ribcage would probably be unable to support the immense pressure required to create lift. Birds have a specialized bone called a keelbone that supports the strain.

Of course, assuming the horse has hollow bones and other minor adaptations that contribute to a lighter bird, flight becomes a bit easier, but the sheer size of the wings (I made them a bit smaller than they should be to fit in the picture frame; the primaries would likely extend a solid couple of feet past the tail and the alula at furthest point would likely sit forward of the shoulder a bit further) and the overall size of the horse still means we're dealing with an animal of around 100-300 pounds depending on which bird you use for calculations. (An adult male human would be roughly 30-35 pounds with a wingspan of 15 to 20 feet depending on wing shape, so a horse could probably easily surpass a 35-40 foot wingspan, especially if able to glide).

Of course, it's your horse, so feel free to place the wings wherever you want! I'm just a bit of a bird nerd (and fantasy nerd) myself, so I've done a bit of dabbling into the physics and anatomy of bird-winged creatures before. It's obviously fantasy, so "magic" is just as accurate an answer. :x

@HTRanch Oooh, I love those! Especially the extra touches of color :x

@wolvevenfrosst Black around the wing? Possibly try erasing it on that layer?

That sounds so cool!

So how do I upload an image here? And when there what do I do to get it here? Cause I can't figure it out for the life of me how to get the black around the wing to go away. But I'd like to show you as to what I mean.

:x Wow! they look amazing guys! Thanks for doing it for my watercolour nacre lady, Lally! She almost looks weird without them now :))

Nope...

Ah! It didn't save as transparent. Might be your device or might be the file, but it needs to save as a png to remain transparent. For now, you can either try again, or you can just erase the black and it should work still.

=))

Would someone be willing to put these on a horse for my secret santa

Thanks for that careful explanation, Lallyhop. I must admit that I'm not and anatomist, so I really appreciate the time you spent explaining things.

Well that link wasn't the one...

@Wolvevenfrosst Did you try uploading the finished image to tinypic or did you try anything else?

OMG! It worked! I'm so happy!

@Wolvevenfrosst Oh gosh, I love it! It's so beautiful! :x