Darktiste Sketchbook

[darktiste]

Hey man, so this might be a little late for this project but I made a little jpg concerning your silhouettes. You said yourself that they didn't have lots of personality and I think you are right. You have great ideas and think about this stuff a lot it seems, but your designs dont necessarily reflect all the effort you put into them yet. With a little practice and a designer mindset I think you could design some really cool stuff in the future - I hope my notes are clear and help you out a little. Also, taking a design class last year, I had to do a very cool exercise - we took a random photo (like a cool looking lamp or something that is designed) and tried to apply the exact design language to something else. So you could take the image I have attached for example and try to make some weapons using the design language that's already there. It's a great practice and can lead to great results! Peace

I agree that in term of theme readability in the silhouette there something that could be push earlier than i did to give a certain theme and to me i was perhaps afraid that it would end up to repetitive so i gone more toward a vanilla feeling in the rough but this in return made so that the silhouette isn't as strong as it can be even if the element might be working to construct the theme they would not be very strong candidat to be sold to a client which is not necessary an issue if you work for your own project but since i aim to work with client i think that just a case where you learn you are going to be sent back the the drawing board or worst if this keep happening.. Your example is interesting and i understand it to speak in term of design language that it can be applied to different variant within a theme but it to broad in it interpretation and doesn't respect the direction because they are not two sided weapon not that it cannot be adapted. But if you design let say a executioner axe i doubt you would include a small axe so there a breaking point in design language may it be scale silhouette or other aspect.Also one thing i note in the note you did is that there alot more use of negative shape which i didn't really do at all which help me see this is one of the thing that i can work to implement in the future not that it was very desireable in this particular case due to the weapon having somewhat of a protective function which would be defeated if hole exist in critical part that serve a protective function not that i couldn't put negative shape elsewhere such as the guard or the blade itself.