Monday 28 January 2019

How not to (Corel) draw a bow


If this really is an official Disney image, and not just some random fan picture, I'm really surprised. This looks so badly Photoshopped and fake that I have almost no words.

Now that may have been an over-exaggeration, I do have words, but not very nice ones. Here they come, the mistakes:

1.
This picture is so obviously fake that it hurts my eyes. I can see that the woman, the horse and the background are all composited together in an editors basement, and not captured in Scottish highlands as they should be. But the worst thing is that I think they computer generated the bow. It looks like she hadn't had a real bow, if anything, in her hands, since the positioning of the bow is unrealistic and the arms of the woman don't look like they would be doing any activity that require muscle tension, like drawing a bow. If she had a bow in hand, she didn't draw it, somebody else drew it in the computer later. I cannot figure out why would they do this instead of giving her a real bow. If they really are Disney, there should be no problem of getting a real bow.
A real bow would bend like I have drawn in the picture, this bow doesn't, so it probably doesn't exist. It's also way too thick for her.

2. I already said that the arms don't look like they would really be drawing the bow. This arms elbow is pointing too low. The arrow is also too low for this style of (European) shooting, but it is done so that it wouldn't obstruct the viewers view to her face. Beauty is more important than practicality it seems.

3. The arrow has fallen off from the top of the bowhand here, or if the arrow didn't exist when they took the photo of the woman, then it is Photoshopped too low.

4. Now there actually is a hip quiver, which in itself is a good thing. But it is way too loosely attached on the hips with that belt so that it can jump all around while riding and possibly dropping the arrows. It also looks like that the quiver terminates somewhere inside the flowing dress way before it shouls stop (the arrows are too short then, this seems like another Photoshop mistake).

The lesson learned today: do everything you can before the camera takes the pictures, not in the editing phase with a computer. Photoshopped photos look always edited and fake.

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