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'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.
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