Darktiste Sketchbook

[JosephCow]

Hey man congrats on the latest design! That's a really unique take on a magic wand, and it honestly looks quite cool! The rendering is overall a huge step up, it feels like a real object, and the side view looks great. Is this a combo of 3D modeling with like a toon shader and painting? I think it's a good use of all your tools if so.

I agree the presentation maybe could use some workshopping. Like I get that the text is supposed to look like a fantasy language on purpose. But I genuinely struggle to read it at all. Though the text does look cool, I think that idea could be more legible like if it looked like it was an old schematic on paper like an ink-drawing vibe instead. But of course that doesn't work with the futuristic elements and the lightning like you said. But I'm not so much getting the futuristic, holographic version of that, so I kind of just want the font to be readable. I think it would work if it was presented more in this kind of manner:

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something like that. Obviously that image makes no sense at all if you actually look at it, but just that sort imagery looks like 'sci-fi holographic blueprint'. And then it's clear that the text is in an alien language and you're not really supposed to be reading it.


 But all that aside the work itself is good.