Expanding a bit on the concept, and trying a few different things to see what I like… so far I’m leaning toward the Shadow Magic (far left) and the two middle silver leaf designs, though I’m favouring the asymmetric one, thinking I may carry the leaf down the arrow shaft in the same spiral pattern. Now for the real question, could I write a sufficient shader to get the Shadow Magic looking good in realtime? In the mean time I will finish the arrow then move on to the bow.

Well I’ve finally set up a blog, And to commemorate this fine event I Bring you “Remember Canol Dirio” it’s a fairly simple piece of concept work which I did for fun.