Sketchtember day 10: Sharp objects

I am on day 10 and I definitely was not feeling this prompt again XD but all the same, I still tried to do a full render with full blending on this one.
For today's phobia, it is a fear of sharp objects, medically known as aichmophobia
It's a type of anxiety disorder one experiences when near sharp objects like scissors, knives, needles, anything sharp you can think of.
Now originally, I wanted to do a knife thrower kind of thing but I just could not find the motivation to draw so many elements after my mask drawing yesterday XD
I don't regret drawing my wall of masks though, but my hands still hurt from that ;;-;;
So I ended up drawing a set of knives.

Materials: Blue pens, blue ink, white pen
Duration: 1.5 hours

So I really tried with this one even with the lack of motivation. I was pretty sure I would change concepts midway but I also got too lazy to look for other sharp objects.

So I started with a very blue piece of paper and made my sketch and inking with the lightest blue pen I had. It hasn't been that long since I did monotone yet why is it that when I'm this demotivated, I'm suddenly colorblind XD or maybe because I went too strong with the blue ink earlier for the base color? I tried to lighten the ink a little with alcohol sprays here and there though to make small white spots, but sad that it didn't make white spots ad I did try with water too but it just wasn't cooperating with me. So I guess my drawing could feel mydemotivation too. Whatever it is, I really had a hard time starting this piece

So this was 30 minutes in and I had to take a break because my hand was acting up again XD

Then I resumed with a darker blue to give it some depth and shadows. I was actually debating in whether I wanted to use black for even more depth but I was seriously not in a mood to add more layers to this. I really think the monotone approach would have been enough at this point so by the end of my shadow making, I did my highlights, which wasn't much. Just a few white streaks here and there and then I counted myself as finished XD

So that ends my daily sketchtember thing. And I'm glad it's still a daily thing even though I had to force myself on his one ;;-;; I'm just upset they did not approve the usage of my birthday leave this Friday because we suddenly had bulk sample shipments again ;;-;;
Despite my bad mood. I am still very happy that you guy stopped by!
Day 10 done~~ Day 11 next! I hope I'm in a better mood to draw that tomorrow. Else, I would really feel bad about the direction of this year's sketchtember because I really feel like it's not matching up to the quality of last year.