Swordtember Thread

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Hello! This September, I am participating in a challenge where you draw a sword by a certain theme every day. I'll post my artworks here, and if anyone else wants to participate, you can post yours here too!

Below is the list of prompts. Feel free to mess around with them if you want to.

Here's my day one:

[Going_North_cal]

wooooooah swordtember.

i might participate... prob not every day but this is a cool idea.

also that crystal sword looks siiiiick! looks like smth Hazel Levesque would use.

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Thanks! I don't know who that is, but I thought it said Havel, so I'll roll with that. Havel puts away that obnoxious hammer and uses my dinky little sword instead.

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Day two, made while watching Princess Mononoke. If you haven't seen it, go watch it immediately.

[Robin Sedai she/her]

On 02/09/2022 at 0:12 PM, Sherlock Holmes said:

For some reason, I really want to eat that. (Great art, btw!)

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Rock candy sword, pft. Thanks for the compliment, as well.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Oooo, I'll probably do this. Might post then here or in a separate thread, or not all though. 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

2 hours ago, The Unknown Novel said:

Oooo, I'll probably do this. Might post then here or in a separate thread, or not all though. 

I'd certainly be interested to see what you do if you do it.

[Quivil]

@Zephrun's Imperium COME SEE THE COOL WEAPONRY

Edited September 3, 2022 by Tani

[Zephrun’s Imperium they/he]

Ooooo. I could not draw that stuff, lol. 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Day three's sword, inspired by Sir Alonne from Dark Souls II.

1 hour ago, Zephrun's Imperium said:

Ooooo. I could not draw that stuff, lol. 

I invite you to try, it's fun even if you're just learning.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

26 minutes ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

Day three's sword, inspired by Sir Alonne from Dark Souls II.

I invite you to try, it's fun even if you're just learning.

How are you making those? Digital drawing, or something else?

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Just now, The Unknown Novel said:

How are you making those? Digital drawing, or something else?

Digital, using Photoshop. I have a Gaomon tablet. 

I make most of my painterly stuff with the same brush, from a brush set called "brushes_for_photoshop_by_rav89". There are like two other brushes I use for everything else.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Here's the first bit of the day one sword. I haven't colored it yet, I'm trying to decide if it's going to be living or dead krystall (something from one of my magic systems). Used a few basic phone filters to make the lines pop more and more clear. 

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Nice! Are the people who use these weapons given to wrapping their grips with cloth, or do they just deal with all the jaggedy bits?

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

2 hours ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

Nice! Are the people who use these weapons given to wrapping their grips with cloth, or do they just deal with all the jaggedy bits?

It depends, they are able to create small enough krystalls that it just has a grippy texture, but sometimes they just make the blade and tang and affix a handle like with normal swords.

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Ah, interesting. Thanks for answering my question.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Ok, finished up the coloring, decided on living krystall since it gave me slightly more to work with than just shades of blue-grey. Once again used phone filters filters.

I'm going to try and change the colors around with filters to make it look like dead krystall for comparison. Bluer than I would like, but it's close enough. 

Edited September 4, 2022 by The Unknown Novel

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

My day four:

1 hour ago, The Unknown Novel said:

Ok, finished up the coloring, decided on living krystall since it gave me slightly more to work with than just shades of blue-grey. Once again used phone filters filters.

I'm going to try and change the colors around with filters to make it look like dead krystall for comparison. Bluer than I would like, but it's close enough. 

If you'd like, I can help you get the right colours. I have Photoshop, it's a lot easier to mess around with colours and stuff.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

6 hours ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

My day four:

If you'd like, I can help you get the right colours. I have Photoshop, it's a lot easier to mess around with colours and stuff.

Very nice, great proportions. 

Thanks for the offer, but I'm fine, it was mostly just for contrast.

Edit: Here's day two, decided to go for an ornamental sword, likely used for some ceremony. 

Edited September 5, 2022 by The Unknown Novel

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Day five: bread sword

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

AMAZING BREAD

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Amazing bread ahead

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Is it bread or wheat?

Here's my gear sword, complete with background and stuff because I was with an artist friend.

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Wheat bread, I imagine, though I suppose it could be barley.