In a nutshell: -No pokey pokes -Smooth grabby part -Blade is waistless and gradually fat only towards pommel, if not straight -Spikes catch, not deflect -Pommel is any shape but not too long to get user -Guard guards -No floaty floaters = no complain

@Furiora

6 жыл бұрын

I think point 3 should be "Blade can hold own weight" Quite a few historical weapons get wider towards the tip. Most have at least some curve like the Kukri or the Kora, but some are straight like the Indian Khanda.

@marceloescamilla8867

6 жыл бұрын

B but floaty floaters :'(

Draw me like one of your French pommels !

@strider_hiryu850

7 жыл бұрын

Sem7ex _ HAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahahhahahhahahahahahhahhahahahhahaahhaha

@gesamtszenario

7 жыл бұрын

Aaaaw, man, I wanted to make that joke!

@Sem7ex_e

7 жыл бұрын

gesamtszenario maybe, but as a French, this one belong to me :)

@gesamtszenario

7 жыл бұрын

Be very careful with that. As a general rule, my people have the tendency to walk right into your country whenever we damn well please, and take what is yours. :P

@jinhocheong5114

7 жыл бұрын

Wearing only this. (Points to the pommel)

As someone who plays Dungeons & Dragons, I would explain Fantasy Sword Design like this. "Design your weapon so it's still just as effective when you walk into an Anti-Magic Field". If the magic gets turned off, is the welder of the sword Fucked? Or do they now just have a sharp, non-magical, but still effective fighting weapon? What happens when the Magic gets turned off... And your floating bits fall off, your magical force fields die, and your elemental Aura's fizzle? That could even been an awesome plot device! The Big Bad is holding this spiky as fuck, mean looking, totally ridiculous and stupidly designed Sword! And the (Non magic using) hero figures out a way to beat them by taking the fight into an Anti-Magic Zone, and suddenly the Big Bad is stabbing themselves in the wrist and their guard falls to pieces, and bits of the blade fall off or become dangerous to the user! Then the Hero defeats them with superior swordsmanship and skill!

@Lombra619

7 жыл бұрын

Poor Sun Blade users. At least they still have a pummel.

@Kun1799

7 жыл бұрын

BlankPicketSign as a fellow D&D player I would like to say just don't be stupid when designing any of your weapons because anti magic fields exist

@BlankPicketSign

7 жыл бұрын

+Vgf Angel As a Player I do agree with you... but as a DM I see Loads of fun possibility to make very interesting encounters just based on this idea alone! Like the first idea of an overpowered magic user, using a super Over Powered sword and the sword becoming worthless in an anti-magic field. But also aspects were bad guys become Stronger in Anti-Magic fields. Such as magical restraints or bindings that weaken them, but when the magic goes "pfft" suddenly they are free to unleash their primal fury! Just fun ideas XD

@royalenigma434

7 жыл бұрын

BlankPicketSign I think it would be best to create the sword with usefulness in mind then add the fantacy stuff afterwards

@BlankPicketSign

7 жыл бұрын

Well of course! But I'm thinking from an In Universe perspective. If I am a Dwarven Sword Maker, I would want my weapons to function even if THOSE DIRTY ELVES use some anti-magic against us.

I am a fantasy writer, and your videos in general have been really helpful. Over the course of watching your content, the main character of the book I'm writing has gone from wielding two katanas to wielding two longswords, and from two longswords to one longsword. I found this video really interesting and would love to see more like it. Helps me think of more specific designs for fantasy weapons than just "not oversized with pointy things everywhere".

Skall's a lefty? Odd, I haven't realized that. I'd always assumed that he ended them rightly, not leftly

@wierdalien1

7 жыл бұрын

That's pretty funny yay he is leftie

@animelvr51

7 жыл бұрын

He's a lefty when drawing, not anytime else. He stated so himself.

@sapphocalypse

7 жыл бұрын

Whoops must have missed that. Thanks!

@sunder9363

7 жыл бұрын

Ed-Yun Hu This us the best pommel joke I've seen since this joke died. Well done👏👏👏👏

@sapphocalypse

7 жыл бұрын

+Stranger Inside the Box much appreciated. :)

Quick pro tip for you Skalagrim: if you put your tripod on the other side of the paper looking down at it you can just flip the footage upside down and it looks normal :)

@kelpia

7 жыл бұрын

Dexter Morgan Thanks my man, I love waking up to inspirational messages :)

@lilboombox4277

7 жыл бұрын

Dexter Morgan get out of here you edge lord

@qwemlhjsi4386

7 жыл бұрын

Dexter Morgan what

Could you do this again but draw your ideal sword? Like draw a sword that you would use in combat. I think that'd be pretty cool

@kvxtthe

7 жыл бұрын

Will Durrett he would just go with a normal, basic sword

@RomaCHEIMS

7 жыл бұрын

he'd just draw the Kriegmesser

@Da1337Man

6 жыл бұрын

Idk if Skall has ever adressed this, but isn't there a certain degree of intimidation towards your enemies when your sword looks fancy as hell while still being perfectably functional? If i saw my enemy wielding a damn fine looking blade, i would assume they know how to wield the thing and be much more concerned for my life than if they just pulled out some common sword you can get from any blacksmith. Of course, fancy looking sword isn't as much a visual clue to a good swordsman compared to how they hold it and their stance.

@TuesdayShark

3 жыл бұрын

yes

Do this more often please!

Drawing of swords and other weapons that would function in real life shows that the artist put actual thought into it and wasn't just drawing without thinking.

@bosknight7837

7 жыл бұрын

Fisher Lobdell exactly,and the weapons also look way better than over the top fantasy designs (in my opinion at least)

@ziggenplays1208

7 жыл бұрын

Dazidan almost all dark souls weapons are viable

@Yal_Rathol

7 жыл бұрын

almost all dark souls weapons are viable (unless we're talking 50 strength, then fuck off), but you did go with the most gaudy, overdesigned one. artorias's blade is a mess in my opinion. still, it would work as a sword, provided you scaled it to human size.

@Yal_Rathol

7 жыл бұрын

yeah, and then it apparently grew in size to be suitable for sif to wield. and keep in mind, artorias is like, 12 feet tall. any weapon designed for him is way out of a human's range. but, scaled down to something you could lift and swing without your spine popping out, you could definitely use it as a sword.

@bosknight7837

7 жыл бұрын

Ziggen Plays if you make them 3/4 or even half their size

Skall draws pretty good hands.

@aryatale5232

7 жыл бұрын

Border Bread yes, wonderful

@bladewolfvii6383

7 жыл бұрын

Border Bread pretty small ones too...

@sayanorasonic

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, hands are really hard to draw

@IceJT15

7 жыл бұрын

Noticed that too, fuck drawing hands man.

@cezarcatalin1406

7 жыл бұрын

Border Bread First time he draw a Trump hand. Very tiny but with big fingers relative to it.

You should do this more often, Skall. I'm an "artist", well I love drawing, so this is a good help to see what's practical and what make more sense. You could do it with armor, for an example.

Question: How would non human apendages like tentacles, pincers or multi jointed limbs effect weapon design?

@BlazingMagpie

7 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@jonathanschnittka5680

7 жыл бұрын

BlazingMagpie ..........it was not a yes/no question..

@skelskeleton

7 жыл бұрын

I think that was more of a "yes please do that." Also i would assume tenticles would have larger handles so one could have more surface area to wrap around which would give more force. Granted i know nothing about swords myself but in terms of physics that would make logical sense.

@BlazingMagpie

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry, my mind blanked out "how" part. How exactly different apendages would affect the design really depends on exactly what sort of appendages combatant has. For example, I think creatures who only have tentacles as appendages might use some sort of gauntlet to secure the blade on, as that should feel (I assume) more natural to use than wrapping it around the handle. Ones with pincers would most likely have very few one-handed weapons and bladed weapons, as edge alignment would be very difficult for them, if not impossible when using only one pincer. Creatures with more joints might have very similar weapons, depending on the structure of hand, but they might also use more whips, as their arm structure should allow to make stronger blows with them than the beings with less joints. Of course, that's just few of the possibilities.

@antonymash9586

7 жыл бұрын

I Think that if you had an extra humb the weapons wouldn't change much but disarm technique wouldn't work. Somethig like a puch dagger or a tip spike for tentacles and maybe a wearable siccor gauntlet for pincer claws.

Go nuts, let your imagination run and create fantastical greatness, but have some gorram sense. Any fictional world is made better by thinking up an internal logic and sticking to it. It gives things meaning, and makes even unrealistic things believable.

@Wulfy294

7 жыл бұрын

P4riah1 Something tells me Firefly taught you that lesson

@p4riah

7 жыл бұрын

...maybe

@DJWeapon8

7 жыл бұрын

Good fiction in general.

@Yal_Rathol

7 жыл бұрын

i believe it's sanderson's law of magic. it's always more interesting to learn what magic _can't_ do, rather than what it can. fantasy has to run on consistent rules, otherwise it's just a stream of consciousness with no bounds, limits or coherence. the only time a character should ever break an established rule is if they're a god or stronger, and even then only on occasion.

@ryjak955

7 жыл бұрын

I don't get this specific discussion at all

Brace yourselves for the horde of pommel jokes.

@Othurin

7 жыл бұрын

Will you kill them all with pommels?

@dudewithlaptop8663

7 жыл бұрын

CounterNerd someones got to end them rightly

@Mordal1222

7 жыл бұрын

Make sure to end them rightly by throwing your... your... nevermind.

@MrDUneven

7 жыл бұрын

What if the mongol army used pommel horses?

@jinhocheong5114

7 жыл бұрын

BRING IT ON. Next time somebody cracks one, Imma pommel their FACE.

Skall's fairly decent at drawing

There is a use for giant weapons in fantasy, and that's for giant (typically not human) wielders! The Zelda series often portrays Moblins as being the size of gigantopithecus! So obviously, they'd use weapons bigger than any human could use effectively. This begs the question, though, what weapons and tactics would humans (or smaller species) create to fight much larger species? THAT'S something I'd like to see speculation on!!!

@perunalastu77

7 жыл бұрын

Spears would be pretty effective, they're not heavy so even a child could potentially use one. And they have long reach, which is the number 1 thing you want if you're fighting someone much larger than you. Also very effective in formation.

@TheRomanRuler

7 жыл бұрын

As said before, spears and other weapons used to hunt mammoths are ideal. Problem solved, case closed. If on other hand you want some more un-orthodox design, how about "close quarters ballista". It would function like ballista, but instead of hurling shots at the enemy, spear would just stab at the enemy before it would be pulled back and "shot" again.

@dumbsterdives

7 жыл бұрын

TheRomanRuler That description makes me think of the Stake Driver from Bloodborne

@voltekthecyborg7898

3 жыл бұрын

But because of their size, why use a weapon at all? They have the size and can stomp opponents.

@robertwildschwein7207

Жыл бұрын

In BOTW if a Moblin picks up a weapon, it gets enlarged and if he drops it, it shrinks again.

14:53 rule 34 strickes again

@PyreeMincer

7 жыл бұрын

heh

@Vitor_M.

7 жыл бұрын

Rick rox lol

@seaofscissors

7 жыл бұрын

Rick rox skall's mastermind planned this whole thing ahead lol

@Assassins6688

6 жыл бұрын

Sword fucking XDDDDD

if i made a fantasy design, i would make a gun that shoots pommels. But jokes aside, i think it's good that you experiment with your videos, keeps it fresh

@antonymash9586

7 жыл бұрын

Gun-pommel

@antonymash9586

7 жыл бұрын

Essenitialy a axe or glaive with the haft being the barrel of a shotgunn and the sheath the stock

@Laughing_Individual

7 жыл бұрын

I thought guns technically can end people rightly by pistol whipping.

@maxtuss1185

7 жыл бұрын

so the magazine is kinda a replaceable pommel.... hmm

@maxtuss1185

7 жыл бұрын

a huge cannon with loads of machinery and crap on it and it just spits out a tiny pommel with a pathetic *shunk* sound... AND THEN THE WORLD EXPLODES!!!!

You should make more of these!

Let's admit. Skall has some pretty good drawing skills. I mean, I wish I could draw like that.

fantasy sword designers love putting gems in guards and pommels, we all did this at one point, _I'm_ guilty of doing that XD

@FrenchLightningJohn

7 жыл бұрын

at least in a fantasy world you can easily justify why there is gem in your weapon, because it can canalize magic energy to fuel your weapon, like a ruby use to fuel fire magic into your weapon and the like, unlike in a realistic scenario you can't justify it

@CarnelianUK

7 жыл бұрын

Not just fantasy sword designers. Real ones did it too, especially during the migration era, when they just loved blinging their stuff out with gold and garnets, e.g. uk.pinterest.com/pin/306033737151163233/

@bosknight7837

7 жыл бұрын

blackgrayden gems also look good irl tho I'm a fan of realistic designs,but gems are pretty awesome

@FrenchLightningJohn

7 жыл бұрын

yeah gem look pretty on a weapon but it make it more of a ceremonial weapon or decoration weapon, i don't think people in that time would use a weapon that has gem

@tasatort9778

7 жыл бұрын

No it wouldn't make the weapon non-functional (depending on where the stones were placed), but it would not be something you would want to use in combat. Weapons that were jeweled, with gold and silver inlay were symbols of wealth and/or social status (a manly piece of jewelry); mostly the person carrying such a sword would also have a plain serviceable weapon tucked away somewhere and/or a bodyguard.

@skallagrim Yeah, you totally should do these. Make it a series for us who do these designs, progressively taking on more things we should consider while designing weapons in general. Would be super helpful. (also take a look at email I sent you, even though I know you don't have time for that. ;D) - Petri

@Beremor

7 жыл бұрын

I feel like that series would dry up about as quickly as the Fantasy Weapons Scrutinized series. There's just not all that many ways you can say: "This would harm the user. That would break. This is oversized. Stop using 'magic' as an excuse for poor design."

@WadWizard

7 жыл бұрын

You could keep it going for a bit if you focused on one thing per video, specific sorts of weapons or specific problems, or specific problems for specific weapons. And while things not to do might dry up somewhat quickly, things to do at least for more realistic designs could last longer and be quite helpfull honestly as an artist myself. Id love to see a thourough guide/explaination/thing to weapon design from the view of someone who probably knows more than the average wikipedia researching artist. For people outside the enthusiast it can be hard to find these things as you have to know the right terms to research... and sometimes your just lazy and work off what you think seems right from media.

@Vicieron

7 жыл бұрын

Chaine310 this is actually the very reason I watched his account. wanted to learn how NOT to suck at making "Form meets Function" style weapons.

@Vicieron

7 жыл бұрын

Wadwizard ZOL yeah, and not only that, there's another channel called Proko where he has a segment where his watchers send in their pictures and he analyses them and tells each person how they did. Skall could do the same. I'm sure many would send in stuff, myself included.

@m1sz3lpl24

7 жыл бұрын

He should do one with armor, I've seen too many armor pieces that would crush users head when he raises his hands :P Also about why helmets are important :D

welcom to draw with skallgrim!

I like this Idea, definitely got me thinking of Weapons for my own fantasy/sci-fi races

SkalaCrilley

@Tharanak

7 жыл бұрын

SkallaJazza seems more accurate here.

@johnofalltrades8266

7 жыл бұрын

Tharanak Nah man, SkallaCrilley is bettee

@sigspearthumb3904

7 жыл бұрын

Skallart

@oxyhadron1120

7 жыл бұрын

draw with skazza

@johnofalltrades8266

7 жыл бұрын

Rick Games G'day ladies and gentlemen welcome to Cutting with Skazza, I'm Skazza and today.......

This is why I make practical fantasy designs, then use magic to enhance them, rather than using magic to account for shortcomings of a poorly designed weapon. Like, the design I'm working on now looks like an ordinary, though ornate, longsword, and the only magic elements of it are that it never rusts and never needs to be sharpened, it can only be broken or altered by god-forged weapons or tools, and its enchantment makes it cut through dragons like a hot knife through butter.

@FrenchLightningJohn

7 жыл бұрын

if you want with the ornament you can use it as a mean to gather magical energy, like putting a ruby to gather fire magic to have a flaming sword, or a sapphire to have a frost spear, etc.

@brokenursa9986

7 жыл бұрын

blackgrayden Well, this particular weapon was forged by the gods, so the magic is inherent in the weapon, and the gemstones on it are purely decorative. The same goes for this sword's rival. The mortal-forged weapons would have different means of infusing magic into them.

@FrenchLightningJohn

7 жыл бұрын

that's pretty cool, if you want to make other type of weapon that are not god forged i think that magical gemstone can be a great way to input why they are there and why it is magical, what do you think?

@brokenursa9986

7 жыл бұрын

blackgrayden Within the world I'm building to put these swords in, that's definitely a viable option. It's a pretty good idea.

@FrenchLightningJohn

7 жыл бұрын

cool, i want to be up to date about your world its seem like a cool and nice world

Concerning the argument "it's just fantasy; it's not supposed to be realistic", here's my two cents: There's such thing as willing suspension of disbelief. Basically, fantasy design works only when a person looking at that design can accept that it could work in the setting it's in. With knowledge of historical weapons getting more widespread, threshold of believable designs is getting lower, thus many formely somewhat accepted designs get questioned more often. If it falls below that line, everyone who can see that will have problem with it unless authors come up all neccesary explanations, which can cause even more issues, especially the answer's "it's just magic".

A picture can say more than a million words. I suppose this video might finally convince those who go on and on about "I don't care about the hilt being insanely impractical and me hurting my hands, because, erm... shut up, it's cool or something !". Anyway, you're a great drawer.

@JoyAndAgony

7 жыл бұрын

yes, he does hold those socks in place. very good drawer he is.

@Deadator

7 жыл бұрын

You made my day xD

@ZemplinTemplar

7 жыл бұрын

Or sketcher. :-) Oh, the puns...

@toropazzoide

6 жыл бұрын

Welp, I still don't care about the hilt lol my favorite fantasy sword is the Dragonslayer and it doesn't even have a crossguard XD

@Carlos-Mora

6 жыл бұрын

ZemplinTemplar *drawist. Your welcome

Would a sword with multiple pommels be viable? That way we don't run out of ammo as fast.

@ChauNyan

7 жыл бұрын

Joshua Oxenford What if the handle IS the pommel.

@OfficialGamingPeople

7 жыл бұрын

You'd lose your hand.

@mergele1000

7 жыл бұрын

We make the guard out of pommels.

@OfficialGamingPeople

7 жыл бұрын

Now *that's* what we need. we could end someone rightly just by catching someone's blade on the guard!

@aru5765

7 жыл бұрын

The greatest mid range weapon of mankind.

So you just designed a crossguard for Batman :D

@aaaaaaaaaa4104

7 жыл бұрын

A Batguard ?

I do the DMing in my group s DND games and i love drawing the magic or special items that they find at the end of dungeons rafter boss fights and my friends always complaining they look too plain or not special enough but I really prefer the super special stuff to look functional and cool so thank you for understanding and I would love to see more of these videos

He draws with his left but is otherwise right-handed...I never would have expected that. I don't know if I've even ever witnessed that amongst my peers. Anyway, I thought this was a fun break from the norm. It's nice to see you illustrate points on paper rather than try to find examples online. Probably way easier from your perspective as well.

@MrDrumStikz

7 жыл бұрын

ZombieM0ses My brother swings a bat lefty, but is otherwise right handed. It's interesting.

@3lloGuvner

7 жыл бұрын

I'm right handed but hold my knife and fork the lefty way. It's always just felt more natural.

@VoceCorale

7 жыл бұрын

Same for me.

@alicaido6616

6 жыл бұрын

The struggles of being ambidextrous. Nobody is quite sure what hand is your dominant hand, and for some reason unnecessarily judges you for that... I've never quite gotten that logic. I get that's not what you're saying, I'm kinda just voicing a complaint. Either way, I'm only ambidextrous because I have a habit of accidentally hurting myself, so I've gotten used to using my non dominant hand. That eventually just turned into me being ambidextrous. Yay me, I think...

Someone has to build Skalls drawings!

@jameshildebrand907

7 жыл бұрын

Bl4ckSp1d3r MichaelCthulhu should do it.

@ChillyJack

7 жыл бұрын

Bl4ckSp1d3r Just pay him ~$1000 and he will.

@bowmanruto

7 жыл бұрын

MichaelCtulhu is known for his giant swords for a reason, trying to make intricate pommels and guards would propebly be a pain for him

@ChillyJack

7 жыл бұрын

bowmanruto Intricate guards aren't beyond him though. He's made quite a few very detailed guards and pommels in the past. He's known for giant swords because that's what he enjoys making the most, and because Big Giants Swords was a catchy name for a Discovery show, not because his skills limit him to big clunky slabs of metal.

@bowmanruto

7 жыл бұрын

oh I know its not beyond him, but its properly not one off his favorite things to do... especially since he has stated multiple times that he is no blacksmith, just a metal worker and using a grinder on larger surfaces is way less stressful then doing thin details

draw me like one of your french swords!

Hey Skallagrim, I really like where you're going with this. I want to add something that bothers me that I think is in line with your point here. Simply, fantasy weapons usually attempt to appear more powerful than mundane weapons. Or, alternatively, fantasy people are more capable of wielding larger, heavier weapons. In either case, the appearance of weapons are altered in an effort to make it obvious that the person/weapon is more powerful. They'll take a war hammer or an axe and give it a huge head or they'll take a sword and make the blade really, really big (both broad and thick). The argument is always "well, these super strong fantasy people (orcs, maybe) are capable of wielding such massive weapons." Sure, yeah, that's all well and good, except that if you consider those weapons with knowledge of how medieval or melee weapons work in reality you'll find that simply making them bigger is not the most efficient way of improving their performance. If we had a hercules in real life who could wield a weapon 5 times more massive than the weapons mortals can wield we would find that his weapon would not simply have a head that was 5 times the size; this would not be the most efficient way of utilizing his superior strength. Is a bardiche a more powerful axe than a dane axe simply because it has a much larger blade? Or does it, in fact, spread it's weight over a larger area causing it to have less penetrative power in exchange for a much larger cutting area?

I would absolutely love more videos like these. really gives me a good insight on your weapon preference and inspiring for my writing so the weapons can be easily imagined but also be impressive.

MAKE IT JIGGLY

@CazadorSlayer

7 жыл бұрын

I NEED MORE JIGGLE PHYSICS ON MY BLADE!

As most of the comments are pommel jokes, I would just like to speak for all who enjoy this kind of content, please do more videos on this

I'd be really exited if you did more of these! I've always enjoyed your critiques of designs and other insights like this. Hope to see more in the future!

As an artist, and a fantasy one at that, I can easily say I'd like to see more content like this. Seeing a sense of realistic practicality brought to fantasy designs is always something interesting to see.

I'm a big fan of this style of video. I liked the flint napping ones too.

Now that dark souls 3 is done adding new stuff would you mind taking a look at it? It has a good mix of realistic and utterly absurd weapons.

@ilovethelegend

6 жыл бұрын

Aw, what do you mean? The greatsword is totally reasonable.

@TheEnmineer

6 жыл бұрын

DOUBLE DRAGON GREATSWORD FTW

I'd love to see some more of your drawings, particularly for the interesting inputs of your own ideas on fantasy designs and similar thought processes brought up as I feel it'd help in my own better, and much more enjoyably functionally fun designs.

I love fantasy, but I also love adding practical thought to my creations, it adds a bit more realism to it. Great vid!

Could you draw a pommel that would be really efficient to rightlyend your ennemies ?

A sword with a deer antler guard

I think your comments during this video (and, all of your videos, for that matter) are very helpful and personally, they help me keep a sense of realism when writing for my own fantasy stories. I use them for a sense of reference and a reminder to keep everything grounded and realistic. I'd love to see more of your thoughts on fantasy weapons and sensible design!

This was an excellent guide, and you've brought up many things I've never considered. Enjoyed the commentary and perspectives and I hope to see more in the future.

More please and if possible, with prommels to end things rightly

Pommel.

yes plz make more of these it's quite fascinating to see you come up with some nice fantasy designs that are at least practical/useable/ not complete bs

tbh ever since I watched one of your videos,I've been making my designs relatively useful. thank you so much for all of this!

It'd be great if u could give your opinion on the energy sword in halo

@The_PotionSeller

7 жыл бұрын

Guy Dude for a human hand the handle pretty much sucks, but the elites have 2 thumbs so it'd work well for them. He probably wouldn't be too keen on the spikes that point towards you while holding it haha

@ashenlongbow1482

7 жыл бұрын

Potion Seller I require your strongest potions.

@The_PotionSeller

7 жыл бұрын

Huntsman0000 I'm sorry traveler, you can't handle my strongest potions.

@DJWeapon8

7 жыл бұрын

The energy sword and the way Sangheili use them seem more for stabbing and thrusting rather than slicing and slashing. That and having a second thumb on what would be your pinky really limits your fists' upward and downward movement *a lot.* Not to mention being painful if you try and force your fist upwards against your forearm with just one thumb, let alone two.

@Yal_Rathol

7 жыл бұрын

to be fair, the energy sword was never designed to be used by humans. they hijacked it. plus, with the way an elite's body is made, i imagine a staple of their sword fighting is the lunge, their legs are just built to drive them forward _really_ fast. so, it would make sense that a weapon designed for thrusting, catching blades in mid-dive and twisting left or right would be developed. doesn't excuse the wrist-stabbing spikes, but hey.

First. Also inserting pommel joke here because originality is not my strong point. Get it? Point. Sigh*

@ubelmensch

7 жыл бұрын

Repent

@amassasa

7 жыл бұрын

A+ for the efforth thou.

@masterharis

7 жыл бұрын

Thank thee brethren

@maxlevirus

7 жыл бұрын

I'm fairly new to the channel, what's up with that pommel joke?

@-F-N-

7 жыл бұрын

he did a video on a historical journal and one of the pages depicted/described a knight throwing a pommel after downing him and it was called "ending him rightly" it was probably a joke from the author

This has got to be one of my favorite videos of yours. I would love to see more like this.

Theres something oddly soothing about sitting down and sketching sword ideas with skal. Id love to see more things like this

I am stealing all the designs.

@bowmanruto

7 жыл бұрын

all off them? even the purposefully bad ones? if so I think you missed the point of the video a bit there then mate xD

@axeltenveils6816

7 жыл бұрын

bowmanruto I mean the good ones.

@bowmanruto

7 жыл бұрын

that makes more sense xD

@Outcrow

7 жыл бұрын

I'm stealing all the bad ones for comedy. "O foolish mortal! I shall end thee right- oweth, I cut my thumb."

oh great Bob ross of swords. Great Video give us more of those! Also thanks to you i can't play Games such as world of warcraft anymore because i get cancer looking at there armor and sword Designs

@kristobaz2474

7 жыл бұрын

just wear vanilla armor

@e.zponder7526

7 жыл бұрын

American mentality? Have you seen Japanese games?

absolutely loved this video as someone who is currently working on writing their own fantasy series. would love to see more videos like this!!

Yes, please make more of this, this is a fascinating topic!

If only game and movie/seires makes would watch this.

@altaica3522

7 жыл бұрын

Carl Marcus games to it on purpose, games and movies etc. Are not to be compared to real life. Especially if its a fantasy games. It just showing off creativity.

@CarlMarx

7 жыл бұрын

I can get that, but I still want more of the more plauseble fantasy, that or they should explain why it is nonsensical, not just crazy for crazy's sake.

@altaica3522

7 жыл бұрын

Carl Marcus plus.google.com/+LordDeathReapeR/posts/5NMHAheFxQa for example this is the sword i made called arashi, i think its pretty impractical and doesn't make sense for a normal human to wield.

@bowmanruto

7 жыл бұрын

skall has a big enough audience to where its a real possibility... when it comes smaller studio's that is, large game and movie studio's have so many ppl working on one project any single persons ideas get lost if its not the director

@Snout007

7 жыл бұрын

I am creating a game and it does influence my opinion. (nothing too serious)

Is the steel used in swords magnetic, or is it more like stainless steel?

@bowmanruto

7 жыл бұрын

depends on what sword it is but most are magnetic... although they are thin and smooth enough to where you would need a pretty strong or large magnet for it to stick

These drawings are pretty nifty, I'm glad you made this video and the format with the GoPro is really different and cool!

This really changed the way I think. Thank you!

i think you can do this but using bad fantasy designs wich exists (like world of warcraft, final fantasy, etc...) and remaking them to keep the concept but beeing more reasonable.

2:40 the pieces could move, if a blade slips through it would bind against it, curling and warping the guard. letting you pull a dagger and stab them. The blade could curve itself around a parry to get in hits that would normally be blocked. Much more animated, like the sword is dancing with the wielder.

@rawovunlapin8201

7 жыл бұрын

LarlemMagic b-but muh emersion!

@Lttlemoi

7 жыл бұрын

I thought the solid pieces were extra pommels.

@kendram90

7 жыл бұрын

*Magic is impressive but now Minsc leads. Swords for everyone!*

Please do more of these. I find them insightful for someone who wants to animate/make games in the future.

"Floating pieces = magic, can't happen in real life." Somebody show Skall some magnets, shit would make his week

Skallagrim, As a sword noob i wanted to buy a $180 sword on kult of athena. On one hand since this is my first sword I want a relatively cheap sword BUT I dont know if it is TOO cheap. For example with smartphone under a $100 you can expect a pretty bad phone. What is the cheapest you could buy a Medium too good sword for.....Here is the link of the sword I was thinking of kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=MSW176S&name=Renold+Sword or at least a sword kind of like that. Love the channel by the way

@wierdalien1

7 жыл бұрын

that's not true I have had excellent phones for under £15. its just not a smartphone. it is literally a phone and a SMS device.

@drefpet

7 жыл бұрын

Alistair Shaw Let's be honest. In todays society - and I'm not judging anyone right now - nobody thinks of those old phones which only provide a few functions when talking about a phone. Everybody thinks of a smartphone at least. And also this was not the topic of this comment

@Topyy

7 жыл бұрын

You should listen to the lyrics of the song "The lives of flies" by Rusty Cage, it talks about that sort of things, and it's pretty cool

@chabis

7 жыл бұрын

I think there is a video where +skallagrim talks about good budget swords. I am just too lazy to browse the video list ;)

@wierdalien1

7 жыл бұрын

drefpet no its exactly the point of the comment. You can buy a functional phone for under 100 (which he said You couldn't) therefore his reticence for the cheaper sword is mostly likely misplaced. or in otherwords his analogy was terrible and i was pointing that out.

I did this when i was 10 years old at school...

@TheItalianoAssassino

7 жыл бұрын

Hopefully you drew some extra thicc pommels.

@Fuzzycat16

7 жыл бұрын

TheItalianoAssassino , big thick diamond shaped pommels.

@Fuzzycat16

7 жыл бұрын

Tl2aV , bad? he was rather gentle and kind.

@Fuzzycat16

7 жыл бұрын

Yulian Baskoro , i just doodle on my computer desk while watching youtube.. then wash it off.

@bizarreworld2510

7 жыл бұрын

Fuzzycat I do this behind every notebook I have

I would absolutely LOVE to see more videos like this.

Yes please do that, I love drawing, specifically swords, armor, etc, and it is really awesome to get more possible Designs

I really like drawing videos anyway, so seeing them from you is something I can get behind!

Yes definitely more of these! Maybe even taking specific items from certain films and describing how changing them would make them more effective.

I love this new section. I'm waiting to see more!

I tend to find when using your approach to weapons design can result in not only practical but also refreshing designs, I would love to see more drawing from you personally.

Yes! I loved this video, please do more! I like to think I have a pretty good eye for design when it comes to fantasy weapons, but that's mainly because I have a lot of admiration for historical weapons, and I draw a lot of inspiration from that. It was good to see someone else with similar thoughts, but I really liked the added visualization.

Hey Skal, thanks for doing this, I'm a Game Designer and I loved this video ! I would really appreciate if you made this a series, with different kinds of weapons (not just swords). Also, you are very good at drawing, loved it!

Wow, never would have expected you to be THAT good at drawing. You make it seem so effortless even. When I draw, I always take my sweet time for every line and erase and redraw it a thousand times anyways, because it never comes out QUITE the way I want it to.

This video was quite enjoyable. Hope you do some more in the future skall!

this was actually immensely helpful because even though your artistic skill isn't top notch, your insight is the most easily accessible.

You should absolutely make more of those. pretty informative and you actually have a great way of thinking in how to incorporate the pleasing to look at + the pratical, heck, i'd say if you brush up on drawing you could legit work making concept art for weapons in game AND whoop ass with how superior the designs would be.

An excellent point made Skallagrim! I would like to see more videos like this one. Keep up the good work.👍

Good video man, like seeing you draw. And yeah it is refreshing to see weapon designs that don't have unrealistic proportions :D

Nice video. Keep this type of videos going, Lord Skall.

that actually helped a lot with my pondering designs for my role-playing game thanks

I'd love to see more videos like this since I am a fantasy artist and also a huge sword nerd. I generally don't find this type of content so I really enjoy it 👌🏻

I would love to see more of your fantasy weapon drawings These ones have inspired me to draw my own

I really like this kind of videos really, it would be nice to have more of this honestly

I would love to see more of this, it is really well done for little designs and I'd love to see more drawings from you. I also am quite find of your view on fantasy swords, I can very much agree with it.

Do more of these this really helps when drawing and visualizing

I would love to see more sword designs! This was pretty fun to watch.

Yes, please make more of these videos

Doodling with Skall. We need more of this.

Yes, please do more of this.

I enjoyed seeing this, helps me out with creating some designs and was really interesting the points you went over

i am enjoying this format quite a bit.

Nice really like that new concept of you drawing weapons we get to see a piece of your mind concerning weapons and weapon styles and in addition we can see it :)

This was fun, I like seeing how you think, I would watch more!

Please do this more often, sir. Your channel gives me copious volumes of education I never knew I needed.