Return of the Saber Doodles

[PsychoSith]

Looks like your saber got a little melty.

Was going for bloody but i was short on time 

[PsychoSith]

Allright! I have my next few projects. I continued to dig through my older sketchboks and i found even more cringey teenage PsychoSith works i can re-do!



One of my first all-pen doodles!......It shows.



SWTOR Dark Jedi Nimrai. His bio exists somewhere on the older threads, which I'm not going to check because the cringe might kill me.



These I'm actually excited for! These were my first sabers that I designed and posted here on a thread from 2013. Sadly the image is no-longer viewable cause my Photobucket account is SUPER dead.

Should give me a few saber doodle projects!

[PsychoSith]

Allright! I have my next few projects. I continued to dig through my older sketchboks and i found even more cringey teenage PsychoSith works i can re-do!



One of my first all-pen doodles!......It shows.



SWTOR Dark Jedi Nimrai. His bio exists somewhere on the older threads, which I'm not going to check because the cringe might kill me.



These I'm actually excited for! These were my first sabers that I designed and posted here on a thread from 2013. Sadly the image is no-longer viewable cause my Photobucket account is SUPER dead.

Should give me a few saber doodle projects!

EDIT: Okay these will come AFTER my newest project! Logos gave me an idea!

[TheDutchman]

Allright! I have my next few projects. I continued to dig through my older sketchboks and i found even more cringey teenage PsychoSith works i can re-do!



One of my first all-pen doodles!......It shows.



SWTOR Dark Jedi Nimrai. His bio exists somewhere on the older threads, which I'm not going to check because the cringe might kill me.



These I'm actually excited for! These were my first sabers that I designed and posted here on a thread from 2013. Sadly the image is no-longer viewable cause my Photobucket account is SUPER dead.

Should give me a few saber doodle projects!

Please PS, I think that we ALL have SOMETHING in our past (especially as teenagers) that we'd consider "cringeworthy" (goodness knows that I do) 

That said: I wouldn't mind reading the bio(s), I have to admit that I really like reading/writing character bios&stats (probably a reason that I used to love AD&D so much  ).

Those color hilts look fantastic!!  Hopefully you can find more^^

[PsychoSith]

Please PS, I think that we ALL have SOMETHING in our past (especially as teenagers) that we'd consider "cringeworthy" (goodness knows that I do) 

That said: I wouldn't mind reading the bio(s), I have to admit that I really like reading/writing character bios&stats (probably a reason that I used to love AD&D so much  ).

Those color hilts look fantastic!!  Hopefully you can find more^^

I will happily re-write it to my more modern standards

[For Tyeth]

Allright! I have my next few projects. I continued to dig through my older sketchboks and i found even more cringey teenage PsychoSith works i can re-do!



One of my first all-pen doodles!......It shows.



SWTOR Dark Jedi Nimrai. His bio exists somewhere on the older threads, which I'm not going to check because the cringe might kill me.



These I'm actually excited for! These were my first sabers that I designed and posted here on a thread from 2013. Sadly the image is no-longer viewable cause my Photobucket account is SUPER dead.

Should give me a few saber doodle projects!

Wow! PsychoPencils and Coloured Crayons! Loving the coloured hilts, the first one looks like a tribute to Artoo and Threepio with the gold at one end and blue and white the other. Of course I'm drawn to the green blade too (< see what I did there?)

Great to see more early works, thanks for sharing.

[PsychoSith]

As mentioned earlier, I have a small project I've been working on before i get to remaking the old stuff. Specifically, Logos and I had a small discussion on the Ultrasabers idea thread regarding the feasibility of lightsabers designed around Rapiers.

Well during my research it turns out the EU had already touched on this. Theyre called "lightfoils" and were a Sith / Noble light-sword based on lightsabers, but not exactly. Opting for an energy blade that doesnt appear to be powered by a crystal (due to the name being specifically distinguished away from "lightsaber"). They seemed to be parimarily used to settle personal duels, similar to the IRL Rapier/Foil they are based on.

Of course my brain immediately went to making it a full fledged lightsaber, and maybe even touching upon a flat blade design since TCW/Rebels opened up that can o worms with the Darksaber.



So which design do you guys feel is the most practical / would work best with a flat blade? Obviously it would be centered around Makashi form.

[PsychoSith]

Just a quick correction, there ARE crystals within lightfoils, but they are manufactured and of less quality than those in lightsabers. In fact, lightfoils are often used by Tampani Nobles and do not require any force connection to construct.

[Darth Logos]

As mentioned earlier, I have a small project I've been working on before i get to remaking the old stuff. Specifically, Logos and I had a small discussion on the Ultrasabers idea thread regarding the feasibility of lightsabers designed around Rapiers.

Well during my research it turns out the EU had already touched on this. Theyre called "lightfoils" and were a Sith / Noble light-sword based on lightsabers, but not exactly. Opting for an energy blade that doesnt appear to be powered by a crystal (due to the name being specifically distinguished away from "lightsaber"). They seemed to be parimarily used to settle personal duels, similar to the IRL Rapier/Foil they are based on.

Interesting.

...and maybe even touching upon a flat blade design since TCW/Rebels opened up that can o worms with the Darksaber.

So which design do you guys feel is the most practical / would work best with a flat blade? Obviously it would be centered around Makashi form.

Ok. I like the one on the top right. Just a simple (and elegant I might add) hand guard, but the length of the hilt and pommel would allow for 2-handed use. I can get behind a design like this.

[PsychoSith]

Interesting.


Ok. I like the one on the top right. Just a simple (and elegant I might add) hand guard, but the length of the hilt and pommel would allow for 2-handed use. I can get behind a design like this.

What i was thinking as well - i might free up the right side finger guard into a small xguard cause looking at it critically having your fingers misaligned would not be terribly comfortable and might lead to the user "pulling" the blade to the right a little.

[Darth Logos]

What i was thinking as well - i might free up the right side finger guard into a small xguard cause looking at it critically having your fingers misaligned would not be terribly comfortable and might lead to the user "pulling" the blade to the right a little.

I wouldn't have put fingers through either of those loops.

[PsychoSith]

I wouldn't have put fingers through either of those loops.

keep in mind it does have a basket guard so theres plenty of room. Many rapiers have loops or ergonomic crossguards to allow this for greater blade control and tip precision

[Taegin Roan]

I like it. Forum veteran and master saber manipulator Darth Cephalus has a couple saber rapiers that I've seen him spin. They are pretty sick.

[Karmack]

So which design do you guys feel is the most practical / would work best with a flat blade? Obviously it would be centered around Makashi form.

I will throw my hat into the ring for the one on the top right as well.   To me, the rapier is all about speed, and that hilt looks fast to me.  :-)

[Karmack]

OK, I LOVE the saber on the right!  It has echos of the Guardian (Obi-Wan Ep1-2 saber) in it, but with far more style!   I could see a high-born Jedi or maybe better, a force-user not of the Jedi Order but serving as the head of some potentate's personal guard, carrying that hilt.

Nice.  :-)