Original: January 2, 2008
I finished Lyssa days ago, but I've been too wrapped up in editing a post about Fringe that I've been working on for the last year. I have to take some time for this, though, because the other won't be done until at least the 18th, the last day of Fringe's finale. And I promised it months ago. I just completely forgot. So, here is Lyssa. This weapon was originally one of the quickest to come together, and it was also the easiest to draw in iDraw. Didn't take long at all. Simple, I guess, but I like it.
Why Lyssa? I've named a couple after women so far - Kerrigan and Miranda - and I felt like keeping it up. I also immediately thought of The Widow of the Web from Krull. No, it's not a great movie. Still, I love it. You might think it was because of one of my first crushes, Liam Neeson. I had no idea he was in it until I saw it a number of times. My favorite part of it was Ergo (David Battley), who I always remembered as the teacher that delivered the best line from Willy Wonka.
"I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest."
~Mr. Turkentine, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Well, this one was actually easier than I thought. The design was the only part I hit a little snag. I had to cut the areas where they overlapped so I could place them correctly, because I didn't think ahead. Then I had to separate multiple sections in order to have more than one gradient. Overall, though, this one was the easiest I've done. The hardest part was coming up with a name. From a suggestion, one of my latest blades was named Kerrigan. I thougt maybe something along those lines instead of leaving it nameless. Then I realized I was finishing it in time for Miranda Doerfler's (Twitter, website) birthday, which is actually tomorrow, but I couldn't wait. So, that had to be it. Now I'm thinking of Serenity, and the deadliness of its look is reminding me of reavers. Also, the color scheme of brown and orange is quite Firefly, so I think the name might be perfect.
Original finished June 7, 2007.
This one was supposed to be easy. I was almost done with it over a week ago, just a day or two after I started. That's a great time for me since life is busy. But, as I always do, I decided it wasn't enough. Oblivion always seemed unfinished. In fact, many of my weapons do, because I used to get ideas so quickly that I wanted to move on to the next as soon as the shape of the last was set in pen. Maybe a third of my weapons actually have designs on them for this reason.
Here's where I almost stopped. I'm glad I didn't. I really like the scales.
And this is the original, completed March 13, 2008.
@reinbeast @docsaico woah. Is there a word that means "evil and sexy"?
— Kevin Pea Higgins (@kevinphiggins) November 24, 2012
@reinbeast @docsaico combining this with a previous convo, I submit that word should be "kerrigan", in honor of the Queen of Blades herself.
— Kevin Pea Higgins (@kevinphiggins) November 24, 2012
I played the first game, but it was so long ago I don't remember much, and I don't have the sequel yet since, until recently, my PC was a dinosaur. So, I looked up Kerrigan and the name certainly seems to fit. It's almost as if I was inspired by the character. And the more I think about it the more the name grows on me, like when I had to name The Nameless One for the Spartacus online game contest. I settled on Ruber Mors (Red Death).
So, thank you, Kevin, for the perfect name, because I had absolutely nothing.
By the way, yes, I noticed that the Twitter embed buttons are in Indonesian. It's not my Twitter settings, which I just changed four times, and I haven't been able to find anything in the template yet. It took way too long to find a template I love, so I guess I'll live with it for now.
Original: January 24, 2006
So, it has taken a while to draw this weapon, even though it was the easiest one I've done so far. I was going to have a pattern for the handle as in the original, but I just liked it better this way. It's hard to come up with a design/pattern for every weapon, especially since I'm always itching to move on to the next, and I didn't have one for this, so I just played around in ArtStudio for a while until I got something that I think works.
Above is my latest blade, Vengeance, and below you'll find the other weapons I entered into a contest for the game Spartacus Legends, all of which I've already posted before. I had to leave a description off of a couple of them, because it was blocking too much. The resizing tool was lacking and there were no other edits possible. The site really needs a redesign.
If you'd like to vote, you can go directly to the pages for Ruber Mors, Desolation, Despair, In Silentio, and Vengeance. But it really is fair to look at the entire gallery and vote for whatever you think deserves to win. Pay special attention to the jet and the guy with the guitar, both humorously bewildering.
