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Ancient Arsenal :
Swords :

swords

More Swords :

swords

Axes :

axes

Shields :

shields

In several languages, including Chinese, the word for 'violence' and 'subjugation' are linked to the discovery of metal. It is perhaps the destiny of Cain (whose name means 'metalsmith') and his descendents to practice the black arts of technology.

-Bruce Chatwin- 'Songlines'.


Artwork Details :

Client : Animatronic Tech Aust.
Brief : Weapon designs for presentation to Weta productions.
Medium : Rotring Pen/ white gouache paint highlights (on Textured Paper ) 20cm by 20cm x 4 : 2000 a.d.
some shadowing added in Adobe Photoshop,
Design Notes :

Soundtrack (music to draw to): Conan the Barbarian - Basil Poledoris

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river
and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? - Blaise Pascal
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