CGAN Jan 23 - Weapon - WIPs

Weapon

Brief: Design and illustrate a fictional weapon (or artifact). Once used by a legendary warrior to defeat a powerful foe it was then lost... until now (dun dun duuuun).


Deadline: Midnight of Tuesday the 31st of January.  

This thread is where you post your WIPs (works in progress). Finals should be posted over here:  cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/current-...weapon-final-entries


Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight UTC) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.

I thought about doing a Sword In The Stone thingie but instead of it being just stuck in a random rock in could be stuck in a carved statue. Or maybe it turned its victim into stone and the naughty stabby person could no longer remove it and it must stay there until a less naughty person came along.

 
 

Cool idea, though I have 2 thoughts:
Judging by pose and angle and size of the stabby thing, the wielder must have been about twice the size of his opponent.... (not a fair fight!)
The victim seems to have been nekkid in the midst of battle. I suppose it might have happened long ago and any cloth might have rotted away, but perhaps there should be remnants of armour...?
(Perhaps you just didn't get around to it yet)

Agree it's a cool idea.

Three times now I have tried to make progress with this but it's really not going well.

*looks at countdown*

Why paint two hands when you can just break one off and save you the effort?

 

Hopefully the sword will return later.

He's just reached the chorus in his epic rock song 

I like how the little emoji guy only has one hand too.