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Writing Weapons (1): Swords
The Thrusting Sword
Type of fight scene: entertaining, duels, non-lethal fights, non-gory deaths, swashbuckling adventure
Mostly used in: Europe, including Renaissance and Regency periods
Typical User: silm, male or female, good aerobic fitness
Main action: thrust, pierce, stab
Main motion: horizontal with the tip forward
Shape: straight, often thin, may be lightweight
Typical Injury: seeping blood, blood stains spreading
Strategy: target gaps in the armous, pierce a vital organ
Disadvantage: cannot slice through bone or armour
Examples: foil, epee, rapier, gladius
The Cleaving Sword
Type of fight scene: gritty, brutal, battles, cutting through armour
Typical user: tall brawny male with broad shulders and bulging biceps
Mostly used in: Medieval Europe
Main action: cleave, hack, chop, cut, split
Main motion: downwards
Shape: broad, straight, heavy, solid, sometime huge, sometimes need to be held in both hands, both sides sharpened
Typical Injury: severed large limbs
Strategy: hack off a leg, them decapitate; or split the skull
Disadvantage: too big to carry concealed, too heavy to carry in daily lifem too slow to draw for spontaneous action
Examples: Medieval greatsword, Scottish claymore, machete, falchion
The Slashing Sword
Type of fight scene: gritty or entertaining, executions, cavalry charge, on board a ship
Mostly used in: Asia, Middle East
Typical user: male (female is plausible), any body shape, Arab, Asian, mounted warrior, cavalryman, sailor, pirate
Main action: slash, cut, slice
Main motion: fluid, continuous, curving, eg.figure-eight
Shape: curved, often slender, extremely sharp on the outer edge
Typical Injury: severed limbs, lots of spurting blood
Strategy: first disable opponent's sword hand (cut it off or slice into tendons inside the elbow)
Disadvantage: unable to cut thorugh hard objects (e.g. metal armor)
Examples: scimitar, sabre, saif, shamshir, cutlass, katana
Blunders to Avoid:
Weapons performing what they shouldn't be able to do (e.g. a foil slashing metal armour)
Protagonists fighting with weapons for which they don't have the strength or build to handle
The hero carrying a huge sword all the time as if it's a wallet
Drawing a big sword form a sheath on the back (a physical impossiblity, unless your hero is a giant...)
Generic sword which can slash, stab, cleave, slash, block, pierce, thrust, whirl through the air, cut a few limbs, etc...as if that's plausible
adapted from <Writer's Craft> by Rayne Hall
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Local artist decides "fuck it, references are hard to find, let's start taking a pic every so often and posting it to tumblr"
All references are free to use without any credit required, but like, feel free to tag me if you use one I wanna see what y'all make.
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traditional phighting art
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recent arts!!!!
Props design work
Sword design, maybe for my OC Hunter ? Tried to make a BIG SWORD that could fit for a monster hunter specialized in werewolves...
And now a bike... It was the first time I ever drew one !
Fanart of my schools version of Macbeth.
#cute #cat #chibifurry #animationclass #illustration #illustrator #sword #characterdesign #naru #fantasy #fantasycharacter https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp51dkEhYS-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=152tk4fog4b5r
Someone make me a fantasy novel protagonist because then at least most of my problems would be stabable
These 3 cuties are Lily, Lilu and Blue. Together they are going to remake an antique weapon by defeating legendary monsters
the other day I had this weird dream where someone broke into my house with a ski mask on, like with two eye holes and a mouth, and I was like, 'oh hell no' so obviously instead of calling the police I grabbed my sword but I haven't sharpened it yet so it's just blunt painful steel. so I bludgeon this guy in the neck until he goes off to join Hogwarts if you know what I mean and when i finish I'm like 'let's see who it is' and I pull off his mask and it was the president of United states, like it wasn't a real president it was just dream logic but then I woke up
special defense
does this count as anything ???is this art
"were you sw-" **YES I WAS SWORDFIGHTING AGAIN**
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"paring knife? you said paring knife? uh, never mind then" I say as I subtly tuck my favorite parrying knife back into my boot