Writing desk

I created one desk and it just didn't feel right. It was just very uninteresting and ordinary... it didn't really depict the time. So I scrapped it and started searching for desks that really fitted in with the image I have in mind. I think what I've learnt from this is to value each item.. even if it's just a desk, if it's boring then it really won't do much for your image! This is what I came up with...

I'm going to try normal mapping on some of the details.. I've not done hard surface normal mapping so we'll see what happens.

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