Another concept art image from the stupid sounding game, like day before yesterday. And this is worse than the last one.
Mistakes:
1. Sideways shooting. There's not point of doing this, you are only limiting the amount of draw you can make. So it's stupid.
2. The positioning of the arms is all wrong. The red arrows I drew there should point in the same direction. They are nowhere near. This is really bad for the arm muscles and tires them quickly.
3. This could maybe be a thumb grip but it is drawn wrong. The index finger shouldn't go over the bowstring.
4. The arrowtip is very large and goes over the bow. You should never pull the arrow that far back, the tip should always stay ahead of the bow, even if ever so slightly. This is dangerous, you could cut your hand like this.
5. Back quiver. Hard to say in which shoulder it is. Also she shoots left handed, as does the other woman in the background.
dude why do you hate left handed shooters so much? I am right handed but shoot left handed because I am left eye dominant and shooting left handed feels right.
ReplyDeleteI don't hate left handed shooters. I just don't like the fact that most people who draw these images don't stop for a second to think the handedness of their archers. Some 95 % of people are right handed, so I would expect to see only 5 % left handed archers in these drawings, but the percentage is way more than that. Even in cases when the character is right handed in other scenes, they have been made shoot left handed.
DeleteBut I have ceased to give left handed shooting a mistake point in this blog some time ago, as you can see in this post, no mistake is given for the left-handedness. It is only mentioned in the title, since it's funny that all of the archers are left handed here.