searching advice for retopology

ninetitle

Hi, I'm working on a model of a anime- sci-fi sword



and I'm currently retopologizing the "base"


currently the result aren't too promising : 

I've tried two times and still can't seem to find a way to properly retopologize and I found another problem: 

my sculpt was pretty rough in places and because the form is pretty simple overrall I thought to fix it in the retopologized version,

Unfortunately the inperfections become much more noticeable and I have no idea on how to fix this mess.

Can someone help me ?

I'm currently using blender but I am also trying Zbrush ( don't know if I will continue when the trial is over, pretty high price for me), english is not my first language sorry for any grammatical errors.

bonus shot : 

ninetitle

It's a test for creating gaming asset, every other object is low poly and then the subdiv is used to create the normal map, I wanted to do the same with the base.

ninetitle

Yes, I had to change the base because I didn't like my old one, but I need to do a low poly to really get the hard edges and smoot the surface.

I tried again and got better result, still working on it:

 



and here high poly:

onionhead_o

i think its better to start with a cylinder and extrude the top part, than to try retopping face by face.