For this challenge, I really wanted the dagger to be the highlight with a bit of my touch on the design. I am finished with highpoly sculpt and have started re-topology. I am really excited on how the rest of the entries will look. Good luck to you all guys !!
(currently this is the design I am really satisfied with but it can be refined later on if necessary.)
So here's a short w.i.p gif that I thought I should upload.
I also got my ideas from this links as well - https://www.paulbert-serpette.com/en/catalog/categories/ancient-weapons/romantic-dagger-depicting-saint-michael-slaying-the-dragon-european-work-19th-century
https://www.antikeo.com/en/catalog/militaria/swords-bladed-weapons/romantic-dagger-europe-19th-century-158068
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O97471/hunting-sword-and-marrel-freres/hunting-sword-and-marrel-frères/hunting-sword-and-marrel-frères/hunting-sword-and-marrel-frères/
For reference, I decided to look around the internet across all antique collections, and I found some great references.
For this challenge, I was very inspired by beautiful daggers of 18-19th century ! There were a lot of them that really caught my eye and this is one of them. It was very exciting to create something from the past, and that too over 100 years ago !!
