Once in a Blue Moon

Orkesstra's Weapon.

If you're not familiar with who Orkesstra is: [link]

It's only the Blue Moon's side view, but complete elevation illustrations take way too much time to make, plus my freaky computer-matrix brain can extrapolate the 3D form of this weapon from the side elevations shown here anyway.

I didn't shade this piece - I really don't think it needed shading, and probably wouldn't have added a whole lot to the piece anyway.

Annotations are fun but took me the best part of a week to do... of course that might be because I haven't done any page layout design for a while.

I deliberated over the weight of the Blue Moon for a fair amount of time, but I think I came up with a reasonable weight that Orkesstra can reasonably manage (she is, after all, taller and stronger than the average human male).

I've got the hang of the Adobe Illustrator "Basic Graphics" swatches now - I figured out how to dismantle the existing swatch patterns and reconfigure them to my liking, which is nice because it's another step closer to illustrating this STRAY HELIX™ manga thing.

I've also drawn up Orkesstra's combat armour, but I need to annotate that too, so that'll be up in a day or two... probably.

I removed the coralite spike that was positioned at the end of the brass hoop, and replaced it with a brass bolt - I did this because someone pointed out that Orkesstra might injure herself with a spike in that position, and I have to agree. A spike there might also cut through a tether attached to the Blue Moon's brass hoop, so it's better all round really.

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Original Weapon.
Do not claim this weapon or artwork as your own.
Do not copy, alter or reproduce this weapon or artwork in any way.

Orkesstra Korona and the Blue Moon are ™ and © David Nathan Dawkins.
STRAY HELIX and all related characters are ™ and © David Nathan Dawkins.
Artwork © David Nathan Dawkins.