Only 45 minutes left to get A DREAM OF SWORDS on Kickstarter! For $16 plus shipping you'll get the hardcover book, three sword bookmarks, a pocket fieldbook, and a "Swords with Names and their Wielders" sketchbook zine.
Here's a Viking Sverð, from around the turn of the first millennium. This was one of my favorite swords to draw, because of those mother-of-pearl-looking inlays.
This and 124 other swords are being collected in A DREAM OF SWORDS, now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schweizer/a-dream-of-swords
The way that stretch goals work on kickstarter is that as a project makes more money, there are opportunities for the project to level up a bit at no additional cost to the backers/customers. Two of our stretch goals for A DREAM OF SWORDS include traveling to more museums to do an additional twenty-five pieces for the book; we've hit both of those goals, so I went up to the Cleveland Museum of Art to do ten of them. He's the first of that batch! (Next stop: Vienna!)
I do the initial sketches on site digitally, so that I can move and rescale things to fit the format and make sure I *understand* what I'm drawing - easier to do looking at a piece and being able to move your POV around than it is working from a photo - and then I take reference photos. I do the finished inking and painting at my desk at home, where I have a little more control than I do trying to work on a bench in a sometimes-crowded museum.
Hey, there, friends!
My new art book just went live on Kickstarter. It's a collection of sword drawings from some of the museums that I've visited over the last year and a half or so. If you're a sword buff (or like my museum drawings), I hope you'll consider backing it!
Chris
Hey, there, friends! I'm going to be releasing a collection of one hundred sword drawings from my recent visits to museums in NYC, Leeds, London, and Paris. I hope you'll visit the kickstarter preview here and click the "Notify Me" button - I'll be launching soon!
Another museum sword drawing: a pretty ornate German rapier