Traditional Dagger - Attempt 1 & 2

I found a nice tutorial online by thebrokenpuppet, showing how to get the general shape of a traditional dagger tattoo design (maybe this would be more neo-traditional? I'm unsure). 

Here's the link if you want to try it out: 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SUVTNrDYWr8

So with that tutorial I did my attempt 1, which follows closely the tutorial, and my attempt 2, which shows elements of the tutorial but I've added in different designs and such. 

With attempt 1, I've taken pictures to show my working, but haven't done this with attempt 2, as the working is almost identical to the first, so doesn't need to be shown. 

As always, none of my work is traced, it's the result of learning and working. 

The materials used are:

- Letraset Promarkers

- Copic Ciao markers

- Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils

- Faber-Castell PITT fineliners 

- Reeves Pencils, varying weights 

- Ruler, compass, eraser 

Here we go! 

Line and circles are all this design is, here's the initial pencil work, the main part of the drawing is the line down the middle of the blade, and how far up you choose to put the handle of the blade. 

Here's the lining done, the woodwork was the hardest part of this, but once you break it down, it's just lines coming from around a circle (the knot)! I was already happy with it at this stage, onto the colouring! 

Now this isn't the best quality image, but a thing I noticed when colouring this, is that on the brown background, the Letraset Promarkers are slightly duller than the Copic Ciao markers, but I really like the effect it has. 

Now here is attempt 2! This one I decided to have a darker theme, so I decided to use red as the jewel colour, and make the handle a lot more angular. The drawing is below, I really like this one, I really love the circular detail around the handle, so 100% happy with this one. 

I've enjoyed drawing these, so I'll definitely draw more, so hopefully I can get better, faster and more efficient at drawing them!