Urbane_Guerrilla: I think it'll want a more convincing sword -- more pommel, as that's a counterbalance to a broad blade and not a mere buttcap, and for some swords less breadth to the cross and drooping the ends towards the point. Most artists with little sword experience just try stretching out a knife or dagger, and it just ain't so, brother. Even the Internet (!) can show you good examples, in proper balance. [/swordnerd] Art's more awesome when you know what you're drawing. Seriously.
zeuz: Dktorzi: Urbane_Guerrilla* i know what you mean but this was str8 ref from the game, not to mention it was drawn has the commissioner wanted, you peeps should know better that a final picture isnt about what you like or looks better but what the costumer pays you to do, to his tastes and likes. ;=)
Urbane_Guerrilla: Broadswords drawn from actual swords collected in museums around the world from times when swords were for keeps can establish a grim dignity to them that positively leaps from the page. Drawn from life, as it were. Try any available images of an +ULFBEHRT+ inlaid sword, for example. There's an impressive one named the Balinderry Sword after its Irish find-place. Circa 10th century Viking 5-lobe. Grok it in its fullness and it'll put the hair up on your neck. A lot of the Viking-era and 13th-c. European ones will do that. Sixteenth century maybe not so much: subtler-looking design, but a touch frou-frou by comparison. Though purposeful yet.
A naked sword should be drawn with the dreadful beauty of a fighter jet. If it isn't at least that pretty you maybe haven't got it right. With blood-dripping or without.
Urbane_Guerrilla: It will be faintly disturbing to some to note that some weapons of war have... an uncanny beauty. In this century and this world that is mostly seen in warplanes... or some ships. Iowa-class battleships, they're... fucking beautiful. That's the only word. Then you think of what those fifty thousand tons of beauty are in aid of, and the beauty turns faintly monstrous.
A naked sword should be drawn with the dreadful beauty of a fighter jet. If it isn't at least that pretty you maybe haven't got it right. With blood-dripping or without.
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