http://images.wikia.com/monsterhunter/images/6/65/Bow.png
Make it smaller.
Ooooookay- so instead of "huge and hideously ugly" it would be "normal-sized and still painfully hideously ugly." :thumbsdown:
One of the things I really, really, really, really, really liked about Oblivion and Morrowind is Bethesda didn't make the armor and weapons ridiculously outlandish. It kinda looked like armor was supposed to look, not like Batman's body armor.
This. Just say "no" to outlandish. Like that absurd armor and bow in the OP.