Lunaman's Designs
Dec 27, 2009 1:16:46 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2009 1:16:46 GMT
So, I've decided to bring all of my sword design drawings into one place. This place. And I'm happy to announce that after months of being too busy to draw, now that I'm on winter break I've had some time to draw up some brand-new designs! Sweet.
They're all further down, but first, I feel compelled for some reason to expound a bit on my thinking process that leads to the designs I draw. Feel free to disregard this part and scroll down to look at the pictures instead. Anywho, if there is one thing I am more interested in than swords, (well actually, there's at least two off the top of my head, but this is one of them ) it's movies. You might have suspected this already if you saw any of my ramblings in the various movie threads or if you know that I work at a movie theater, but at any rate, I really do love films. I almost never watched TV as a child (we had really crappy channels and it was boring) but I read a lot of books, played a lot with my friends, and WATCHED MOVIES. I've kept that up for the most part, though as an adult "playing" now has different meaning and most of my reading is now assignments for university, but I still get caught up in a state of childlike wonder when I see a good movie. I'm one of those weirdos who'll go out with friends to see a movie, and if he likes it he grabs more people to go see it again and "share" the experience. And again if it's really good. Movies are what got me interested in swords, and as such, I have a special place in my heart for movie swords. It's not just that I like to feel like I'm holding a piece of the adventure, it's that (when movies have a budget) the swords often have really beautiful designs and they fit into a complete design aesthetic. When they are designed well, one look at a film sword conjurs up images of the whole film and the whole adventure. That's not to say I like ALL film swords--most swords from vampire VS. werewolf-type films and the tons of movie weapons that throw plausibility out the window make me quite unhappy. And anime stuff isn't really my cup of tea, either. But good movie swords are the bees knees, and they are HARD to find for your own collection if you insist on functionality as we do. So when I doodle a sword, I almost always have a film in mind that the sword could represent or fit into, and I temper this with imagining a sword that could actually be MADE and could actually be USED. Sometimes the drawings come out as my take on the particular sword used in the film, sometimes they're just loosely inspired by the movie, but I almost always have this "filmic" quality running through my head as I draw. For all the ones on this page, I drew from the images in my mind. I checked twice for pictures of the swords from movies beforehand just to get a feel for the proportions, but when I was actually drawing I had no references in front of me but the paper and what I could remember or imagine. These all have a movie as inspiration, but none are straight copies an all were somehow filtered through my own ideas of preffered characteristics. They are my designs, but they are strongly derived from movies I love. In a couple of cases, I was surprised to see how close they were to a source only after I was done and went back and checked the film inspiration. Here they are, but with the old stuff first:
Let me know what you think!
Old designs:
NEW DESIGNS
They're all further down, but first, I feel compelled for some reason to expound a bit on my thinking process that leads to the designs I draw. Feel free to disregard this part and scroll down to look at the pictures instead. Anywho, if there is one thing I am more interested in than swords, (well actually, there's at least two off the top of my head, but this is one of them ) it's movies. You might have suspected this already if you saw any of my ramblings in the various movie threads or if you know that I work at a movie theater, but at any rate, I really do love films. I almost never watched TV as a child (we had really crappy channels and it was boring) but I read a lot of books, played a lot with my friends, and WATCHED MOVIES. I've kept that up for the most part, though as an adult "playing" now has different meaning and most of my reading is now assignments for university, but I still get caught up in a state of childlike wonder when I see a good movie. I'm one of those weirdos who'll go out with friends to see a movie, and if he likes it he grabs more people to go see it again and "share" the experience. And again if it's really good. Movies are what got me interested in swords, and as such, I have a special place in my heart for movie swords. It's not just that I like to feel like I'm holding a piece of the adventure, it's that (when movies have a budget) the swords often have really beautiful designs and they fit into a complete design aesthetic. When they are designed well, one look at a film sword conjurs up images of the whole film and the whole adventure. That's not to say I like ALL film swords--most swords from vampire VS. werewolf-type films and the tons of movie weapons that throw plausibility out the window make me quite unhappy. And anime stuff isn't really my cup of tea, either. But good movie swords are the bees knees, and they are HARD to find for your own collection if you insist on functionality as we do. So when I doodle a sword, I almost always have a film in mind that the sword could represent or fit into, and I temper this with imagining a sword that could actually be MADE and could actually be USED. Sometimes the drawings come out as my take on the particular sword used in the film, sometimes they're just loosely inspired by the movie, but I almost always have this "filmic" quality running through my head as I draw. For all the ones on this page, I drew from the images in my mind. I checked twice for pictures of the swords from movies beforehand just to get a feel for the proportions, but when I was actually drawing I had no references in front of me but the paper and what I could remember or imagine. These all have a movie as inspiration, but none are straight copies an all were somehow filtered through my own ideas of preffered characteristics. They are my designs, but they are strongly derived from movies I love. In a couple of cases, I was surprised to see how close they were to a source only after I was done and went back and checked the film inspiration. Here they are, but with the old stuff first:
Let me know what you think!
Old designs:
NEW DESIGNS