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[Drifter Bob]

Slum Fu Art
Here is some of the production art for the slum fu combat archive, in various early stages of development. Obviously none of these images appear as seen here in the finished product, some of these are very early sketches. Still, they convey a sense of what I think is the excellent quality and technical accuracy of the art. One other nice feature is that in the finished documents, the images are all to scale.


the following images are copyright (C) 2004 R. Esteves and IRE LLC

15th century Italian bastard sword
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/bastard.jpg

16th century venetian schiavona hilt detail
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/shiavona.jpg

16th arming sword and 16th century Irish galloglass sword, early sketches
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/arming-gallow.jpg

16th century German messer
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/messers.jpg

various axes, european and turkish, early sketches
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/axes.jpg

Chinese Lieu Ye Dao and Yan Mao Dao swords, early sketches
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/daos.jpg

Irish Kern Axe, 16th century
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/kernaxe.jpg

Roman Gladius sword variants (Pompeii, Fulham, Mainz, Hispaniensis) with scabbards
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/gladius.jpg

Scottish Claymore, outline sketch
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/claymore.jpg

16th century Venetian Sidesword, outline sketch
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/sidesword.jpg

Pattern welded viking sword, tip (early sketch)
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/viking2.jpg

10th century Pattern welded viking sword, hilt (early sketch)
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/viking3.jpg

Assorted migration era viking swords (color sketch)
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/viking4.jpg

15th century Hunting crossbow with belt-hook
http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/xbow.jpg

 

[Jupp]

I would go over those links again. Half of them are not working properly

 

[Cergorach]

As Jupp said, most links are incomplete.
This is reasonable as fanart, but if you expect people to pay for this, bad...

 

[Drifter Bob]

Doh!

I would go over those links again. Half of them are not working properly

My bad! When I copied them from the other thread, it apparently changed the links.... they are all working now, have another look.

DB

 

[Drifter Bob]

xxx

 

[DrZombie]

Nice artwork, better than in some of the books I've seen. Keep up the good work.

 

[reanjr]

As Jupp said, most links are incomplete.
This is reasonable as fanart, but if you expect people to pay for this, bad...

I think most of them would do fine as professional artwork as long as the focus of the piece was not on weapons. If, for instance, it was a small weapon section in a much larger book, it would be fine.

 

[Drifter Bob]

I think most of them would do fine as professional artwork as long as the focus of the piece was not on weapons. If, for instance, it was a small weapon section in a much larger book, it would be fine.

Actually, these are for a series of PDF's (which will probably also be made into a book) which do focus on weapons as well as armor. They are all copies of photographs of original weapons or accurate reproductions (about 80% are original surviving weapons). They are all very accurate portrayals. For example, compare the langen messer drawing (topmost of the three messers) with this photograph of one of the surviving 450 year old original swords it is based on:

http://www.myarmoury.com/albums/albums/aa_antique/normal_13421_a.jpg

or compare the italian bastard sword ('spadona') above with these photographs of two surviving originals here

http://www.myarmoury.com/albums/albums/userpics/normal_spadona_brescia.jpg
http://www.myarmoury.com/albums/alb... Spadona in Collezione Marzoli, Brescia 1.jpg

DB

 

[Cergorach]

I'll retract my statement, i made a judgement on the links that worked, the crossbow is not good btw. Now that the other links are working, pretty good (professional)!

 

[Drifter Bob]

I'll retract my statement, i made a judgement on the links that worked, the crossbow is not good btw. Now that the other links are working, pretty good (professional)!

Thanks. That was wierd how those links got changed.

What do you think of this crossbow?

http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/e/deodand23/preview/xbow2.jpg

DB