Concept art of a Polanian archer

Concept art of a Polanian archer. After it was drawn, we realized that we cannot use it. Anyone can guess why?

Composite bows, as in this image, had an enormous tension force of 40-80 kg. Therefore, a special arrow release type (AKA “Mongolian”) had to be used by the archers armed with it. And then the arrow would have been on the right side of the bow…

For more details about ancient Slavic archery refer to our posts in September 2019.

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A year ago…

Exactly a year ago we started outlining the concept of the animated fantasy comic book series about customs and beliefs of the Slavic people in the early Middle Ages. Thanks to our team, we came a long way through a lot of obstacles on the road – and the new comics episode is going to be released soon!

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