Good evening to all,
Well I’ve officially stared at this too long haha and just finished the shading.
This knife started as an exercise in design… I had it mounted in the block for a few months trying desperately to come up with a decent design, well that never happened.
Finally just penciled on the backbones and went to cutting. Next, only drawing on a couple of elements at a time then cutting them felt quite comfortable.
Had I transferred a design and a couple of elements been off I’d be stuck without the skill or design capabilities to save what might have been a good piece, so this free form approach felt very “low stakes” if that makes sense.
Anyways its not perfect but nothing ever is, however every project feels slightly better than the last and this one felt like a leap forward.
Feel free critique this in any way as I’ll be diving into the next one having learned several things to approach differently. But Id love some insight as to what others see right or wrong.
I still need to work on my drawing skills a lot as many elements didn’t have coherent shading path and really stumped me for much longer than care to admit haha.
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and thanks for looking.
Well I’ve officially stared at this too long haha and just finished the shading.
This knife started as an exercise in design… I had it mounted in the block for a few months trying desperately to come up with a decent design, well that never happened.
Finally just penciled on the backbones and went to cutting. Next, only drawing on a couple of elements at a time then cutting them felt quite comfortable.
Had I transferred a design and a couple of elements been off I’d be stuck without the skill or design capabilities to save what might have been a good piece, so this free form approach felt very “low stakes” if that makes sense.
Anyways its not perfect but nothing ever is, however every project feels slightly better than the last and this one felt like a leap forward.
Feel free critique this in any way as I’ll be diving into the next one having learned several things to approach differently. But Id love some insight as to what others see right or wrong.
I still need to work on my drawing skills a lot as many elements didn’t have coherent shading path and really stumped me for much longer than care to admit haha.
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and thanks for looking.
