This time a 3D-rendering that looks like the Japanese game developers have tried to compose something vaguely European and Medievalish like. Those boots are just super weird, and so is the aviator hood! and the plaited skirt has much more common with modern Japanese school girl uniforms than with anything Medieval. The archery is also weird.
Mistakes:
1. The bow has these huge wooden blocks inside its arc, that will render it pretty unusable, since they would hamper the bending of the bow limbs severely.
2. There is a large bulbuous thingy in the upper nock of the bow. What's its purpose? Certainly it doesn't have one, apart from making the unusable bow even more of a nuisance.
3. The fistmele, the distance between the grip and string of the bow as indicated by the red line here is too large. In a longbow it should be approximately the height of the archer's fist with an upturned thumb.
4. The ubiquitous back quiver strikes again! It's a clear mistake in European Medieval context (and in fantasy derived from it), which this obviously tries to be.
The purpose of this blog is to correct all the errors the popular media, movies, videogames and countless drawings depict relating to bows and archery.
Monday, 22 June 2020
School girl Link with aviator hood
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European archery
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huge fistmele
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longbow
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male archer
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ridiculous bow
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love you blog, quite educational! Roast me next https://www.deviantart.com/ludvikskp/art/Maka-Forest-Hunter-832052349
ReplyDeleteThere is a new tv series coming please critic this series archery too
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reddit.com/r/Archery/comments/kje822/another_historically_accurate_scene/
Oh no, I might have to do it at some point.
Deletehello whats wrong with all this Back quiver mistakes that you are saying but not explaining? thx
ReplyDeleteHello!
DeleteI have explained my dislike of back quivers for example in this blog post: http://craparchery.blogspot.com/2016/05/quivers-on-hips-not-on-back.html
The main problem is that it was not done historically, almost ever. It is a very bad place to draw the arrows from. You cannot see where they are and you cannot see how many are left. It is much better to have the quiver on your belt, or to carry the arrows tucked inside your belt, like was most often do in Medieval times.