I'm not moving to PBR for this one, i'd rather keep it to the old workflow, then make a new project to find out all the new things :) The "gold" is supposed to be brass, i used this image for reference, the gold might have gotten a bit too much. I'll look up some texturing tutorials, i've got a subscription for digital…
The sword would look a lot better if the blade would be around 1/3 (+) longer, as it would have a lot more visual balance to counteract the grip. Be careful with the yellows. Do not mix cold yellow with warm red tones, that does not work. Change the gold to a more warm tone, and itll work better in terms of palette. Edit:…
The thought process i had while making these scratches were something like this: "what would it look like if it had been used to cut flesh and bone" i assumed that bones would snap instead of being cut through clean, meaning that the scratches would be rather thin and not wide. If it had been used for armor and harder…
When I referenced Racer's video tutorial, the main things I wanted you to take away from it were techniques he used to texture the blade and how much thought went into the blade scratches. Even in the reference you cited with the sword, all the scratches run parallel to the length of the blade with a slight diagonal, which…