[DS2] Axe, gibson543

gibson543

I was attempted to resist the urge of joining this comp but I couldn't help myself.

I'm no concept artist so excuse the crapiness, but here's a silhouette I've taken a liking to, I've already broken down what materials would be where, the hand connection, skull and spike up top, and the pommel would be bone, and the blade and handle would be metal, with some leather in this first one.



However, in the second one, the handle is bone, but mostly covered with leather and only exposed on certain spiked points, I'm not sure if this idea would really be functional with death's hands, so I'm leaning towards option 1.



I'd love to know which one you guys think I should pursue, or if you have any critiques just in general on the shapes or idea, please shoot. And I guess this would fall under core.

Neongoat

Certainly looks like it would do serious damage! Prefer the clean handle of the first one, not sold on the central head/skull though. I was thinking today that fused bone would be a cool way to glue elements together, might be useful.

gibson543

Thanks for the opinion neongoat! I've decided to go forth with the clean handle and I decided to take your suggestion and make a different variation to replace the skull. I'm not really sure if I like it better or not.

I also thickened up the blade quite a bit, I think it looks way better this way

gibson543

Did a sketch over the silhouette, I hardened up the top ring portion and figured out a way to implement a skull in a cool way, all thats left to do is harden up the pommel ring and then I'm most likely off to modeling unless any of you guys has something to crit

TaylorMouse

It looks nice, make the skull bigger, and a little more spookier

T.

gibson543

Thanks Taylor, I guess I kindof did that in this update, changed up some proportions, added skull in middle, blah blah, excuse the skulls crapiness in 2d form, I plan on giving it some sort of expression in the sculpt, the only thing catching my eye now is I think I may need to make the indent on the blade more intense.

gibson543

I can't stop sketching! I thought the skull needed some major adjustments, widened the blade a little, and even made a new asymmetrical variation, I'm leaning towards the asymmetrical one, what do you guys think?

gibson543

Color test



What do you guys think? Last 2d update unless you guys have something to say

gibson543

So, after some advisement from the guys on irc, I decided to trash the previous design and start a new one, but this time starting with thumbs and just the bigger shapes, Not many yet I know but I probably wont be able to work on this that much during this week so I want to get this update in there.

AimBiZ

Some combination between 1 and 2 would probably make something interesting.
Also a tip, don't use white background for the colouring, as it's misleading.

gibson543

Hey thanks Aimbiz, number 6 started off as a combo between them but moved away a little bit haha, and thanks for the background tip.

So heres just a couple I added on, looking back, some of these just look wonky to me, like 7 or 3, but there are a couple I could see taking forward

gibson543

chose my favorite one and did a quick sketch over it

gibson543

finally just decided to go with a design so I can finish before the deadline