How can only the ponytail fly so high?

I run this blog by doing many posts at the same time. In one or two consecutive evenings I usually post ten to twenty new pictures, and put them on timing so they are automatically posted every day. Then I take a vacation from this blog for some time. I can't do this every day, and I can't stand to see these pictures too many a time.

Mistakes:

1. Sideways shooting. This time the other way around than usual. It's still stupid and pointless here.

2. Using only two fingers in a Mediterranean grip instead of three. Also seems like there wouldn't be any pulling force behind those fingers.

3. This elbow is way too high.

4. The ubiquitous back quiver as usual. It's also on the wrong shoulder.

This is the limit for now, I can't stand this anymore. It hurts my eyes too see these. Twenty is enough for now. Follow-up will be posted later. I hate this!

Bed gable bow

I hate the design clichés the Asians always do. I bet my head that this is an Asian drawing of a character. Have they never heard of the rules of how many heads the body should be tall? Since it's not twenty!

Other mistakes:

1. The bow is horrible. It looks like the gable of a "princess bed" some tasteless people want in their completely white homes. Those kind of homes make me sick.

2. There are two strings in this "bow". Two. Strings. That's one too many.

3. Also back quiver and left handed shooting (apparently).

Left handers sideways shooting club

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.

Greek archer miniature

A Greek archer miniature. If anyone cares to know, the helmet type is called a pilos, and it is developed from a wool felt cap commonly in use in ancient Greece.

The bow is of correct recurve type, but it does not curve properly. Inflexibility seems to be one of the most common mistakes.

Also the arrows on the back quiver, they are situated directly vehind the head, from where they are very difficult to get.

Legolas, Duplolas, Triplolas?

This chaep-ass Legolas copy has some problem with his eyes. They are all blue. Not just the irises, but the whole eyeballs. That cannot be healthy.

Mistakes:

1. This bow doesn't bend properly. Bad bad bad bad bad.

2. No spare arrows or a quiver anywhere.

3. Shooting the only three arrows you have at once is a terrible waste. If you only have three arrows, make each shot count. Now he's going to miss at least two arrows. Or if they all hit the same target, what's the point anyway? "Öyh öyh, but it does triple damage!" says some nerd now. I don't care, people (and skeletons) don't die from damage points.

Avatar the last bow bender

This is actually technically pretty good digital drawing. The archery technique is all wrong though.

Mistakes:

1. This bow is some kind of sci-fi bow, but it has all kinds of unnecessary and stupid add-ons. Take them off and keep the black part and it would probably be usable.

2. This arrow tip is way too large compared to how thin the arrow shaft is. It would break off in an impact immediately.

3. Shooting sideways, or actually not yet shooting, but pulling the string to almost fully without aiming, that is quite bad loss of energy and a stupid thing to do.

4. This is not a real grip. The fingers do not grasp the string properly, and it is not possible to pull the string that way. Also the fletching of the arrow is too near the nock.

5. Back quiver. Also on the wrong shoulder making it impossible to use.

Fifth hood in ten days, oh my!

This is my one hundreth post in this blog! 100! Yey! Or maybe I shouldn't be happy, since it means there's been a lot of bad renditions of archery in the Internet. I will not celebrate this with anything then. But I promise there will be more bad things to come. And you haven't even seen the most horrible yet!

Now to this time's post.

I'm getting tired of these dark hooded female archer characters. Can't you design something original for a change? Oh, no? Okay.

Mistakes:
The bow. It. Does. Not. Bend. Here. Real bows bend.
Otherwise than that, and the fact that she is in a middle of a ridiculous jump, and that she doesn't have any more arrows or a quiver, it's not that bad.