Incubus King 2011

I decided to do a redesign of Sammael I, an incubus character of mine, to go along with my last post. I wanted to tie his new outfit to the succubus's, so I repeated the overlapping plate pattern as pauldrons. I think designing his new outfit was easier than drawing that sword.

Here was my process in drawing the weapon (which I have yet to name). I had no idea what kind of weapon I wanted; I just wanted it to be BIG. I finally decided I liked the idea of a big, blunt, squarish sword, like the uruk'hai use in the LotR movies. But I thought the final shape (no. 7) was pretty boring.

 

 

I thought it would look cool if the sword looked like it was made of (or perhaps covered by) an overgrowth of chitinous plates. And my sister has a large collection of fossil shark teeth, so I added a few of those in as well. In the end, I wanted to break up the symmetry of the blade a little, so I added the purple veins to suggest some sort of disease or sickness.

...I wish I knew more about 3D models. I'd so make this into a weapons mod for Skyim.