DIY Bat Shoe Wings made with duct tape, scissors, white pen, and pen knife.
Make a big sheet of duct tape by laying it out and making sure the creases face different ways so its less flimsy.
Then use white pen to draw out your bat wings template. Use your shoes to mark out the holes. Then cut out the holes with a pen knife and check if they fit. Wipe off pen with a lil acetone and qtip. Lace onto your shoes and ur good to go!
The full version of my interpretation of Myla's song ("Bury my mother, pale and slight..."), based on the tune she hums. Sung by me (at 2am) (with a cold). I'm… actually pretty proud of how this turned out!
Context: When the city was condemned, were the miners still in Crystal Peak left outside? Did they wonder what happened to their families left within? Did they sing for them? For the knight and dreamers whose memorial they may once have seen? For the desperate hope for a brighter future? Even just a chance to mourn?
Additional Context: The really fun thing about rounds is how one by one the voices inevitably die off until there is only one remaining. :)
(I really didn't expect so many people to want to hear the whole thing! Many thanks to The Embraced One and Camellia Flingert on Youtube, whose recordings of Crystal Peak ambience provided the perfect background noise/pickaxes/ominous rumbling.)
Full lyrics under the cut.
Ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, ye-mi-ye-ta
Ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, yo-na-la
(Ke-ti-ya) ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, ye-mi-ye-ta
Ye-le-ki, ye-la-ka, no-na-na ye-le-ko
Hollow Knight Heritage Post
themichaelvan asked:
question for you!! ive been doing some research on bows to draw and write about the character pictured below, the huntress from shattered pixel dungeon. i was wondering if you knew what type of bow would be closest to the one pictured in this art? i can't find any that curve so sharply that don't also have more than one string, and at this point i wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't one at all. thank you!!! i love your videos by the way they make excellent drawing practice :]
blumineck answered:
Ok, sorry @themichaelvan, I’m gonna piggyback a rant onto your ask.
One of the curses of being highly invested in a topic is that you start to get uncanny valley much more easily when you see it represented.
A lot of drawn or animated bows suffer from one of 3 problems:
1: the bow is shown at rest in a shape that just doesn’t have enough length in the string/limbs to reach full draw (as in the above case)
2: the bow is shown at full draw in a way that could never return to a resting position (usually because the string is way too long, resulting from drawing the limbs too close to their resting position- see below)
ALTThink about how long that string would be if it was straightened. There’s no way the limbs of that bow are that long.
3 (usually in fantasy/gaming): the bow is designed in such a way that the limbs simply would not bend the way they need to (usually due to being unfeasibly bulky, or made of a material- e.g. A human spine- that just doesn’t have the right kind of physical properties to make a bow from.
So, discounting 3., because people who draw those usually know they’re ignoring physics and don’t care (in which case: that’s awesome, carry on!), how do you avoid this?
Let’s look at the different stages of drawing a bow:
- at rest
ALTThis is a horsebow. It’s 55" end to end. The string is completely taut at rest, and the limbs have a destinctive curve, which gives them enough length to reach a 30" draw. Bows with less curve (e.g. Longbows, and the one in the ask) would need to be a lot longer (68"+), to reach the same draw length.
- starting to draw
ALTThe limbs start to straighten slightly, but it’s mostly in the limb tips, which frees up some string length.
-half draw
ALTThe ends of the limbs have uncurled significantly, but the curves closest to the riser (grip) are still mostly the same
-full draw (ignore my face)
ALTThe second half of the draw changes the shape more dramatically, as the central curves bend more sharply.
Notice that at each point, the tips of the bow reach mord than half of the length of the draw? If the string needs to cover more distance than the limbs, something’s gone wrong!
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…anyway, to answer your question, the bow in the picture is probably a recurve or horsebow, but it’s a bit too small, and the string isn’t far enough along.
Sandshrews look so polite. They wobble around with their hands together and look up at you with those big big eyes and they give this impression of being such adorable small gentlemen. It's very good at making people forget the absolute mess they dug in your yard
