Hand Painting Practice - Champion's Pride Sword 3D

This was a fun little project that I worked on in my free-time in-between classes last year. I Decided to work on some low-poly hand-painting techniques and learning 3D-Coat as I go; but due to school I wasn't able to finish it.
I chose Ben Rosado's concept as I really loved the painted work on his project, so I decided to take it in 3D and he even gave me some pointers on how to tackle it!
Even did a high poly to practice my sculpting skills before retopo.

ORIGINAL CONCEPT by Ben Rosado

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/BmLZ38