Odinbc wrote:
The Warrior wrote:
There was a sheath contest on a knife forum I frequent. Whoever's design was best and won, got that sheath made. I still haven't received the sheath, but here's the design I won with, all made in GIMP:
With, and without the knife. I added a firesteel loop on the final design:
That's a winner for sure The Warrior, do you care to share some techniques?
Thanks man, appreciate it.
I don't remember exactly, but, I started with the knife. Made a selection around the blade, grow the selection, add a layer, filled with leather. Drew the belt loop part, filled with leather, shrunk the selection, new layer, filled it, shrunk by 1 or 2, then cleared. That left a rectangular line. Erased part of it, then used that to bump map the line in it. Same technique for the bottom part. Bumped a depression in it, for the snake skin inlay. Bumped a stitch line it, text to path for the stitching, and used the dash on the keyboard for stitches. Hard to tell, but I actually created a layer, and made "holes" for the stitching. If you make the photo larger, you can see it. The snake skin was from a pattern I googled, and the snap was also. I just cut it out, and resized it. Drop shadows, etc. Made a gradient in a new layer, then set the mode to overlay, or something to that effect, that makes the leather looked raised when the knife is inserted. Same for the firesteel loop. Something in that order.