I've been a bit slower with this one as I have been trying to learn a bit more about painting in between, but here's some progress on the second sword so far. Still need to work on the colours as I've mostly just been trying to get the values right. Also not too happy with that central part as it's very angular, but I have…
Some painting progress, decided to keep the panels for now. I'm aware that the fur part at the bottom just looks super weird right now so I'm working on replacing it with something else. Honestly, I wasn't sure how to approach this part. I've been looking through the WoW model viewer for some ideas and found something I…
Updates! So I re-modeled the handle because the geometry was pretty bad, I think it's much better now. I've been able to make a lot more progress with painting the handle, so here's where I'm at so far. Still not really finished yet as I need to fix a few things I'm not too happy with (feels like the bottom area of the…
@Xelan101 Wow, thanks so much for the amazing feedback. :) I really appreciate it. The gold areas were something I was really struggling with, so thank you for mentioning FirstKeeper and her work, I will definitely need to go and study that before I start painting the next sword. I knew there were things missing from my…
I've been tinkering around with the model a bit more whilst I was UV unwrapping and fixed a couple of n-gons I discovered during that process. I also began adding extra geometry for the panels on the blade and a few other pieces but now that I've started to paint I'm wondering whether I should remove the geo and just paint…