Weapon Illustration Sketches

[Tetsubo]

I have looked through your art work, and well, WOW!
You have great talent, and I was wondering if you could do a pair of gauntlets for my campaign. I am introducing them as a source of ammo, as per a quiver of ehlonna, for the shuriken throwing rogue. I was thinking of having the shurikens come out at the underside of the wrist.

They would otherwise function as Spiked gauntlets (+1)

Thanks
elvnsword

Thank you. I appreciate the compliment.

I will start to think on the gauntlet.

 

[Tetsubo]

Divine Spade Battestaff ...

Inspired by some of the more esoteric Chinese martial arts weapons and a Final Fantasy review I saw. Who says that a gardening tool can't be deadly?!

 

[cdsaint]

Tetsubo,
Over the past few days I've wandered through both this thread and your older thread of weapons illustrations and I must say I'm very impressed. This will be a wonderful resource to mine for magic or Masterwork weapons for my game.

I'll throw you a request now. I've got a guy (well an Orc guy) with an axe fixation. His main weapon is a battle axe, but he also uses a greataxe, handaxe, and throwing axes. The battle axe is an older magical weapon, not particularly powerful, (just +1) most likely looted from an Elf or Dwarf by his great-grandfather. All the other axes would be based off the battle axe, but cruder orcish made copies.

If this idea excites your muse I'll be interested to see what you do with it. I don't have any specific design ideas other than a group of weapons that are derived from one. sort of a family group.

Thanks, Chris

 

[Tetsubo]

Tetsubo,
Over the past few days I've wandered through both this thread and your older thread of weapons illustrations and I must say I'm very impressed. This will be a wonderful resource to mine for magic or Masterwork weapons for my game.

I'll throw you a request now. I've got a guy (well an Orc guy) with an axe fixation. His main weapon is a battle axe, but he also uses a greataxe, handaxe, and throwing axes. The battle axe is an older magical weapon, not particularly powerful, (just +1) most likely looted from an Elf or Dwarf by his great-grandfather. All the other axes would be based off the battle axe, but cruder orcish made copies.

If this idea excites your muse I'll be interested to see what you do with it. I don't have any specific design ideas other than a group of weapons that are derived from one. sort of a family group.

Thanks, Chris

Thank you. I appreciate the comments.

Can you give me any more info on the core battleaxe? Double bitted? Angular, curvy, all metal, etc.?

 

[I'm A Banana]

Maybe some sort of whip or chain weapon? Perhaps with something bashing/slashing on the end?

I don't really care what it looks like, as long as you can whip it around and hurt people with it.

 

[Aristotle]

Heh... I'm not sure if I should start doing weapon/gear illustrations or just commision Tetsubo for a bunch of designs.

 

[cdsaint]

Thank you. I appreciate the comments.

Can you give me any more info on the core battleaxe? Double bitted? Angular, curvy, all metal, etc.?

I'd say a metal head on the axe and a wooden handle. Details other than that I'm willing to leave in your more than capable hands. Bad Axe Ample (what else would you call a 350lb orc who wield axes exclusively?) and his forefathers have been fighting both Elves and Dwarves for generations, so I could see the original axe as being from either source. Many of the axes you have done already would work for the original axe, the problem I've run into is that simply re-sizing them doesn't seem as though it would be effective to change a battle axe into a throwing axe, or even a hand or great axe.

After going back through all your artwork my 3 favorites would have to be axe01, bigchop, and thrust. So it would appear that these are single bitted axes with half of the blade extending past the haft. You could use any of those sketches as the base battle axe. Other axes I particularly like are axe77, axe82 and elventhrust. Please feel free to use any of these 6 designs as a base, or come up with something new using similarities from them. Whatever works best and is the most fun for you.

Thanks, Chris

 

[Dreaddisease]

Please requests.

7 divine weapons from the god of battle. Created from the essence of a diety and enchanted with powers that exist only in synergy with each other.

1) Longsword. This sword feels and looks unusually heavy until it is wielded when it becomes agile. Sword is lined with runes along the blade and handle.

2) Quarterstaff. More of a battlestaff this staff has small blades on the end that continue to enlarge as it is in combat.

3) Greataxe. This axe allows the wielder to become large enough to wield this immense weapon. The handle is arced slightly to accomodate two hands.

4) Dragon Tooth Punching Daggers. These daggers meld into the hand until upon the wielders command they spring out in the form of sharp canine dragon teeth.

5) Morningstar. This wepon resembles gold with each spike in the head of the weapon a different gem. Unlike gold though it is as hard as adamantite. The morningstar is able to release a shocking charge once an hour.

6) Warhammer. This warhammer's head is twice the size it should be. It is purposely unbalanced looking but is magically balanced when wielded.

7) Flail. The ball is luminous making it hard to discern the actual shape while the chain is made from mithral.

Thank you

Thank you

 

[Tetsubo]

Heh... I'm not sure if I should start doing weapon/gear illustrations or just commision Tetsubo for a bunch of designs.

While I appreciate the compliment I seem to have a fairly long list of requests at the moment. So feel free to show your stuff!

I will get to the requests I currently have as I can. I never "push" my Muse. If it doesn't feel like the right time for a certain sketch, I wait until it does. I also want to make sure that I feed my own creative desires.

 

[cdsaint]

I will get to the requests I currently have as I can. I never "push" my Muse. If it doesn't feel like the right time for a certain sketch, I wait until it does. I also want to make sure that I feed my own creative desires.

That's cool, I'm the same way with painting figs.... it happens when it happens. If I try to force it the end result always suffers.

Thanks, Chris