Saturday 26 January 2019

Blue-faced centauress


This centauress has many of the barbarian clichés on her, such as blue woad face paint and thick blond wild-flowing hair, as well as too skimpy clothing for winter environment. Her archery isn't flawless either.

Mistakes:

1. She is grabbing the bowstring with two fingers only. The Mediterranean grip she's using would be better with three.

2. Two arrow goes under the thumb here, this is a bad mistake, you cannot shoot like this.

3. The handle of the bow is obviously too thick, since she can't even reach her fingers around the bow for a good grip.

4. The bow looks like it's made of three portions, the limbs separate from the handle. This is okay, I have one bow made like this, so it can be packed in a smaller space. It's still perfectly functioning bow even though it's detachable. However the lembs of the bow in this picture make a deep angle in the middle of them, which is a bad thing. It would be a structural weakness and nobody would make a bow like this. If there's an angle in the limbs they should be either nearer the nocks or nearer the handle, and anyway not so angular.

5. The arrow is way too short, it wouldn't fly far. The tip also looks quite heavy, further diminishing the range of the weapon. Proper arrows should be longer than your arms, and this is certainly not.

6. Quiver on the back. It would be super wasy for a centaur to have her arrows at her hips (human hips, not horse hips), like a saddle bag, but no, sadly she has a back quiver. The quiver also terminates somewhere behind her (human) back, since it doesn't continue in the other side of her. It's obviously a continuation error made by the drawer, the arrows cannot be that short (they would be even shorter than the one she holds).

7. The arrows don't have any space behind their fletching for fingers to grasp, so they would be very difficult to shoot.

8. If this is an archery bracer, then it's the wrong side up, since there are big holes on the wrist side of the forearm, where the bowstring might hit. But I guess these are just standard fantasy leather bracers without a real function, since she has two of them.

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