This was only meant to be a katana shot, modeled on my own katana from above the bed
I went to pain staking detail on the lace by actually making a 3d lace and literally wrapping it in the same fashion as on the real thing and then textured it, but you can't actually see that when the whole sword is in view, and besides the sword alone didn't make a very good picture, so i've tried to knock up a desktop out of it, i would like to add shafts of light to it, but can't figure out how to do it very convincingly, but this is where it's at so far.

Mayas renderer btw

ps. the pic above is one i drew years ago and resides on my wall, i photographed it and sketched it in psp, originally based on the lager of lamot logo