Quote Originally Posted by Frie View Post
One of my friends told me this,

Take a knife and put it in the light and look how at the top it looks really bright and it gets darker towards the bottom of the knife try imitating that even taking a picture of it will help. Choose a color and find different colors in that color darken it, make it lighter and so on!


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Like my art teacher says,
"Don't always rely on references."

Sure it's a good way to practice, but I have never done that. What I do is study swords from other pixel artists (Authentic pixel art, not Graal) or study Graal swords. Combine, relate, and create.