Hand-Painted sword practice

Megacorpse

I've been working a couple days on a sword concept to practice hand-painting of diverse materials and I'm moving on to start modelling it. here's the concept, I've named it the Demonic Spanner :



Let me please know what you guys think so far.

dschmidt3d

That's a cool design. It looks like it comes apart like scissors. Would it do that?

Megacorpse

dschmidt3d wrote: »

That's a cool design. It looks like it comes apart like scissors. Would it do that?

Sort of, it's designed so you can push the two blades further apart just like a spanner. I thought it would be cool that you could adapt the size to your enemy's eyes or something haha.

SaboR1996

Thats amaaaazing
Although I would have a different colour for either the fabric or the actual spanner, to give a bit of contrast between the two, but that's just my opinion

Megacorpse

Thanks for the feedback man, changed the handle to plain leather (I was afraid it would not fit with the wood but turns out right)



And here's my model so far :

Twotents

Please make a gif for your avatar.. that is all. Just kidding! really nice work there, very interesting design reminds me of something a gnome would wield. Keep up the great work

Kromus

Not much to say here as its a lovely model and lovely texture and cool concept. I think changing it to a darker color on the handle was a good shout.

CarlK3D

Looks great, cant wait to see it on the model.

Gazu

Hey the Painting looks great
The Handgrip Area remembers me a bit on a Tool:


But that not disturb me, it has his own style!
Soo...keep it up!

Megacorpse

Thanks everyone !

@ Twotents : You got it, haha !



Modelling and unwrapping finished (635 tris), let's move on to the final texture - I hope to do all of it tomorrow.

Lowpawly

I think you should vary the shapes up a bit, it looks cool, but maybe making one blade a bit bigger, everything looks to uniform.

SaboR1996

But @Lowpawly, Spanners and wrenches are mostly uniform, so this kind of asset wouldn't fit right too be honest

Megacorpse

Well based on Gazu's pic and other references, some models have interesting shapes such as additional teeth and less regular sizes.



I did a quick retake on the global figure, it definitely looks more intricate while retaining the tool look. Looks more like it has an actual edge, thanks for the insight !

Lowpawly

That looks cool!

Jeff Parrott

This seems like a grabbing tool and less of a sword.

With this kind of style 60% of the heavy lifting is the design of the piece. The actual rendering of the texture will fall into place after the design is solid. I would work on the concept for this. Maybe start at some thumbnails and go from there. Just take your time with it. One thing I do is rush through this type of stuff. So slow down, nail the concept, then take it up slowly.