In this series we're going to be learning how to draw a variety, a very wide variety,
of medieval weapons. We're going to start with the first couple of clips, learning how
to draw different types of swords. First of which is going to be the famous long sword.
We're going to come right here in the middle and we're going to start by drawing the handle.
The handle for a long sword is quite, for lack of a better word, long itself. It's supposed
to be because the overall design is supposed to. A long sword is meant to have a long piece
right here to, basically, I think, it's all about protecting the sword owners hand. What
we're going to do is I'm going to show you how to draw a character holding each one of
these designs that we do. This will be the top portion of one of the hands and since
this sword is meant to be held with two hands, immediately underneath the first one, we're
going to draw a thumb and then a set of fingers here, as well. And in a way someone would
hold this sword, like this one, would be, it's got a very long handle so you can get
a good grip on it. Come in here and draw the base like that and then working our way up
the handle here, you draw a little bit of texture there. Basically, since it is your
sword you can pretty much do whatever you like with the handle design, don't feel limited.
Basically, use your imagination, just the one thing you want to keep in mind is the
handle has got to be very long and you want to make that very clear. It is a long sword,
it has that name for a reason, the blade and the handle, both quite long. Add as much detail
as you'd like and then what we'll do, once we have the handle down, we'll come out here
and we'll draw the blade. The blade doesn't necessarily have to be very wide. Learning
how to draw swords is a great way to learn how to draw straight lines and one way to
do that is keep your eyes on where you want the line to end up, I know that's a trick
you all have heard. Drawing up, to draw the point, like so. One way, when you're drawing
a sword if you want to draw a lot of detail and really make the sword stand out, a good
way to do that is show the width and depth of the blade itself. Since this blade is not,
it is a flat blade but it's not completely flat, one way to do that, to give it a little
bit of a third dimension, is to draw a line right up the middle like this so you can clearly
see the blade and its thickness and just how, generally, how big it is, in relation to the
hands that we've drawn right here. That's how someone might hold it. There you
go, you have the long sword and this one is your standard knight and shining armor, charging
the dragon or defeating the evil knight, type sword. It's very big and heavy though so whenever
you draw it, make sure you make it so the character's holding out with both hands, otherwise,
it just won't be believable. This is your Excalibur or blade like that. Now, if you
got that one down and you might like your design, let's move on to another type of sword.