I like the first one better, mostly because the cool tones seem calmer/earlier in the day, and days ending depresses me.

the grass also looks significantly more dead in the edited version. maybe that's just me.

It does, I noticed that. I'm just not good at color correction and the what not with creating a theme.

Try making the photo compliment the edits and set the theme to a cool blue/green thing. It would make sense since that's the basic color scheme of the unedited version anyway.

Can I request a realistic looking brofist?
It's gotta be 200 x 500.

Also, I drew this. I thought it was cool.

Not really a serious drawing here, just scribbled it up after several hours of Dark Souls.

I got a stabby-stabby the other day, Green River paring blade, curly maple scales.

and the work done so far; Gun blued the blade and carved out the handle profile, currently whittling the handle into shape, then I will stain it, rivet it to the blade and finish it with linseed oil.

will update with the finished product.

Nice work on the handle man.

Thanks Bombzero. Hopefully the stain I'm going to apply will really bring out the grain of the maple which can potentially look really good.

I guess I'll drop in a sketch since I posted

I beat super meat boy - 106%, all levels A+, all warp zones, all glitch levels. I have most achievements missing the "medium", "medium well", The kid's Xmas achievements, and all but the first "without dying" achievements.

I can feel that beard from here. Damn.

Is it in your mouth?

Yes, the blade and wood was purchased online, I only added the gun-blue stain. I'm no blacksmith...yet...

Anyway, knife update, handle rounded, stained, and riveted

You may notice the rivet holes are somewhat roughly gouged, this is because I did not have the proper tool for countersinking the rivet head into the wood so I had to improvise with a chisel.

Epic work this, love the gravure style texturing/shading. If I had to criticise something, I'd say the shading on the bottom of the hat could be done differently. While the pattern is nice, I think the uniformity or ratio (horizontal to vertical) of it's lines don't imply curvature/perspective over that surface.

@Mackerel, nice, would make a good desktop background.
Also I perceive a person in that, I'm presuming you modified an existing image?

@madmax, has a real nice rustic look, woodworking was never my strongsuit, more a metal person.
Wish I still had some of the blades I made but a ~5 foot claymore, ~3 foot broadsword, and various small daggers aren't exactly on the list of things I'm legally supposed to have in my possession, barring certain types of purpose-licenses you can get here for blades, (artistic, historic, etc etc but that requires registering them and all that bull♥♥♥♥) So I had to get rid of them when we moved to the new place... I miss living in an actual house only because you can't really do metalworking in an apartment complex.