Elegant Dagger Design Process

A start to finish design project for an elegant dagger, showing initial sketches through to finished concept art. I'll go back and fix the 3D render at some point!

Finished model, First render with basic materials applied.

Initial moodboard, looking at inspirations.

Initial concepts - silhouette sketches. Quickly copied and edited in photoshop.

Secondary concept sketches, looking at different handle designs.

Final Concept art