Today I worked on the sculpt of Leera's blade (on stream, too!). I already had the base mesh created from earlier (extremely simple), so I sculpted start to finish.
I was mainly inspired by LoTR elven daggers and swords, sleek, simple, and particularly curved. Legolas fighting knives were my strongest inspiration, and I started my base mesh with their exact silhouette. Upon studying some more knives, inclusive of Skyrim daggers, real-life weapons, and other concepts, I only tweaked the handle and curve angle to be a little more angled; aggressive. I stayed away from any crazy dagger shapes (as cool as they looked), as Leera is very simple and clean in design, as well. I want the dagger to reflect her.
I was mainly inspired by LoTR elven daggers and swords, sleek, simple, and particularly curved. Legolas fighting knives were my strongest inspiration, and I started my base mesh with their exact silhouette. Upon studying some more knives, inclusive of Skyrim daggers, real-life weapons, and other concepts, I only tweaked the handle and curve angle to be a little more angled; aggressive. I stayed away from any crazy dagger shapes (as cool as they looked), as Leera is very simple and clean in design, as well. I want the dagger to reflect her.
I'm not sure if the engravings are too heavy handed - I just drew them in with a Dam Standard brush with 0 focal shift. I'm considering redoing it, but with a -100 focal shift and less intensity so that the engravings don't taper at the point, but I kind of like how this looks, too. I will show this for critique tomorrow and see what the consensus is.
Yay for finishing this!
My next project will be Karnys, so I'll be doing character sculpting for a WHILE (approx 6 weeks?). First thing will be his concept, though, so that may be one of my next entries.
Yay for finishing this!
My next project will be Karnys, so I'll be doing character sculpting for a WHILE (approx 6 weeks?). First thing will be his concept, though, so that may be one of my next entries.
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