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“Artemis: Goddess of the hunt, archer of the moon” My foray into archer has really given me new purpose, so to celebrate I thought I’d share a painting I’ve done of the original champion herself: Artemis! Twin sister to Apollo, Artemis requested of her father not only to have as many titles as her brother (the original ‘golden boy’) and to prove herself as an equally talented archer. With the mountains falling under her domain, Artemis proved herself a force to be reckoned with, something I take inspiration from in my training! This is available in my artpal shop for anyone interested: https://www.artpal.com/amy_fay01/?i=140871-15 #artemis #greekmythology #archery #archerylife #archerypractice #archerygirl #feminism #womensupportingwomen #womenempoweringwomen #artpal #artforsale #artforyourhome #artforhome #olympus #olympians #barebow #barebowarcher #barebowarchery https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQqeAuM-2I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I know I’ve been MIA for a few days, but I had a very good reason. On Sunday I took part in my third ever archery competition…and I won!

That’s my second win out of three, alongside one second place!

So, to celebrate, I thought I’d try my hand at giving the Fleetway version of Amy Rose a slight re-imagining. I never got a chance to read the Fleetway Comics myself, them being cancelled before I was eight, but god did they look fun! I’m sure had I seen them on the shelves I would have ran right to them, but…I just don’t think I ever saw them on the newsagents stands?

Either way, from what I’ve seen they did a phenomenal job with their take on Amy Rose, and given that I already loved her from the mainline games it wasn’t gonna be hard to grab my attention.

For the piece itself; I decided to blend together aspects of both classic and modern, but rather than a hammer, I figured that Fleetway Amy would have some knowledge of traditional archery form (given how she wields a crossbow) and basically decided to lean into that angle. I know Fleetway Amy wore baggier, arguably comfier shirts, but that’s not always the best thing for archery—or barebow archery specifically—you don’t want anything that the string can whip against because it can knock your arrows off course; and even mm at the start can translate to whole inches or more at the target’s end—so I gave her more of a running-gear fit style shirt but paired it with a set of practical and fun as hell cargo pants! Actually, I feel like it works as a callback to the 90’s/00’s style anyway? And that was a fun style to revisit anyway, especially in Amy’s classic-era colour scheme! Also kept the modern pattern on her boots, but repurposed them to be a little more outdoorsy.

So, yeah, that was my weekend!

Alternative background style of my redesign of Fleetway Amy as a barebow archery champion; I just couldn’t decide what I liked more. On the one hand, the other is more dynamic…but this one has glitter!!

Celebrating another win in my archery with my redesign of Fleetway Amy Rose!

I’m still only a novice on the competition scene, and I still score less there than I do on my regular range, but I’m proud to report that my score was greatly improved today compared to my last one! AND!

And! Even though I was the only one in my own category (women’s barebow,) according to the official scoresheet released today, I actually matched the winner of the men’s category! I know that I still have a very long way to go, but that felt like a huge achievement today.

Now I need to keep improving to get the practice scores to match the competition one’s!