Monday 15 October 2018

Gothic Jungle Book Pocahontas

This picture is like Jungle Book meets Pocahontas in a gothic setting. Where are all the colours (of the wind)? Bagheera here is black, and also colourless are the dead looking Grandmother Willows. The woman is just about to slip from the tree brach se is sitting(?) on. Wardrobe choices seems to to concern her, but who wouldn't want to dress in a mini skirt and a tight leather top that can "malfunction" at any time, while presumably going to a hunt in the forest and climbing trees? There is also a very specific little wind just in her black hair, and another that blows right next to it, to her hood, but in the opposite direction, must be magic!

Not very many archery mistakes in this drawing, since the woman is not shooting. When shooting, there are numerous things that can be wrong, but when just holding the bow, it is easier to get things right, since there are lesser amount of things to notice.

Still, there are mistakes:
1. The fistmele, the space between the bow and bowstring at the middle is too wide. It means the bow is weak. Nobody would use a weak bow for hunting or for war. Only children use weak bows when they start practising archery. And bows can be made weak without having a huge fistmele.
2. Quiver on the back. It would be easier to list all the times I've seen a hip quiver in modern archer drawings. Can't think of any at the moment.
3. The quiver is also on the wrong shoulder, if you would like to get arrows from there.

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