First item - tips for improvement?

Technoviking

Hello everyone. I'm new at the workshop thing and for the past months I've been doing some research and tutorials, and came up with an item for the workshop. I'd like to know what do you guys think and how I could improve the item or my next designs.

So the item is a weapon for Sven, I tried to keep it in character and to fit his theme as much as I could. I'm really happy with the result, but receiving critique is always welcome anyway, enough talk:







So, what do you guys think? Where can I improve? Does it fit the character?
And here you can see it in the workshop:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=158812960

Thanks in advance

clegfx

I feel that the texture could use some more work

BrontoThunder

A solid first attempt; you've got an interesting shape and some nice, distinct separation of colours for the most part. I would suggest removing the runes as they turn to a blur at the in-game resolution. I would curve out all the hard angles in the blade area around the grip and make the grip straps larger like wrapped cloth.

Also, I'd work on the masks a bit as it doesn't look to much like metal.

Prosomogy

You need some work whis masks. Here guide by vavle:
http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2ShaderMaskGuide.pdf
I think that if you will work whis it you will get nice item in game ;3

Technoviking

@clegfx
Hello where do you think the texture is lacking?

@BrontoThunder
Thanks well, the runes are the important part of the detail I guess they are not really observable in game, but it's a nice thing to contemplate when you want it... also they work with his ult, that was the idea haha :P
I had a little bit of trouble with the grip, I tried to make it look like straps, but gave up
Well, I didn't really try to make it look like metal since it's a white sword, as the name implies, it's supposed to be made of ivory...

@Prosomogy
Hi I've read a lot about masks and tried to make them work as best as I could, where do you think I could work more?