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.
Friday, 5 June 2020
Some kind of ranger
A ranger of some sort. With a ridiculous leather patch armour à la Hollywood. Let's get to business.
Mistakes:
1. The bow seems to be constructed of different parts. This is sometimes done nowadays, but was not done historically in Europe, which' cultures this ranger is obviously based on. European bows were made of one piece of wood, or laminated with several pieces, and of different materials, like horn and sinew (in the case of recurve bows like this one here), but never like this with two wooden limbs nailed to a steel handle.
2. This arrow only has two feltchings. While there were two-fletched arrows, never in Europe, they were rare also elsewhere, and where made a bit differently.
3. Back quiver, and even on the wrong shoulder. Impossible to get the arrows from there easily.
Labels:
drawing
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European archery
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male archer
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recurve bow
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