Friday, 19 October 2018

Another one of those damned elves

I'm quite tired of these clichéd fantasy drawings of archer elves (and of clichéd fantasy drawings in general). They all try to be so dynamic that the character just can't stand still while shooting. They always have to lean heavily on one direction (not to the horrible band I hope), bend their knee, or some other bovine excrement. This elf is not falling from a tree at least, so maybe that can be counted as a good thing?

Mistakes:

1. This bow is horrible. It seems to be made of wood with metal parts. No bow was ever made like this, since it doesn't make any sense. It's also way too heavy and way too thick to actually work.
2. This elf is not holding his bow, it will fall off from his hand immediately after this picture was taken (I didn't know they had cameras in Middle Earth?)
3. It looks like the arrow is behind the bowstring even though it is released. This is impossible.
4. Back quiver. I should start to call it bad quiver.
5. Arrows in the quiver don't have enough room for the nock, the fletching is right at the end. Which is not right. It's wrong.

Bonus:
Is lefthandedness more common in elves?

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