May 4
Hiromi's Executioner's Sword / Jujutsu Kaisen S3E9
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Hiromi's Executioner's Sword / Jujutsu Kaisen S3E9
a shooting star
The way that stretch goals work on kickstarter is that as a project makes more money, there are opportunities for the project to level up a bit at no additional cost to the backers/customers. Two of our stretch goals for A DREAM OF SWORDS include traveling to more museums to do an additional twenty-five pieces for the book; we've hit both of those goals, so I went up to the Cleveland Museum of Art to do ten of them. He's the first of that batch! (Next stop: Vienna!)
I do the initial sketches on site digitally, so that I can move and rescale things to fit the format and make sure I *understand* what I'm drawing - easier to do looking at a piece and being able to move your POV around than it is working from a photo - and then I take reference photos. I do the finished inking and painting at my desk at home, where I have a little more control than I do trying to work on a bench in a sometimes-crowded museum.
are you taking requests? if so, draw a weird sword?
Headsman's Cleaver
(Also I should be clear, I don't take requests so much as I sometimes look through the suggestions people send me and draw them if I have a good idea for it and can do it quickly as a warmup. There are messages I have from years ago at this point backed up in there and who knows if I'll ever get to them. If you have something you seriously want me to draw for you and you want an input into how the final piece looks you'll have to commission me through [email protected].)
A short Sword of Justice,
OaL: 23.7 in/60.2 cm
Width: 3.4 in/8.7 cm
Weight: 4.1 lbs/1840 g
Germany, 1561, housed at the Wallace Collection.
The abhorrent Dietrich Locaedes, intelligent, evil, unabashed serial killer and executioner of Neverwinter. Loves his authority. All around bastard.
Ngombe Executioner's Sword
Democratic Republic of Congo. 63 cm.
A large Mughal steel-hilted Executioner's Sword (tegha)
Northern India, late 18th/ early 19th Century
The single-edged curved steel blade becoming slightly wider before tapering to a point, with engraved decoration to the blade at the forte consisting of a repeated zig-zag design and an impressed circular stamp with inscription in nagari, the plain steel tulwar hilt with serrated foliate motifs around the pommel, the wood scabbard clad in leather with steel band and suspension ring at the top. 121 cm long.