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"stargirl"
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Tools of the Trade: GIMP & Krita# About me
avi by the magnificent cloud || 22 & perma sleepy# Comments
Comments: 28
You're welcome, your art is wonderful!
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no prob!! that lil fox is so cuteΒ Β
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You're welcome! I love your work.
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No problem, your work is amazing!
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You're welcome, you're work is wonderful! Definitely worth more than a fav!
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No problem!! I love what you did, any tips or tricks on how you made them?Β
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I'm glad you like them! I had lots of fun making them.
For all of the elements, I referenced historical designs and some dedicated websites:
scribes.westkingdom.org/H2-Her⦠(My initial shield-shape came from this site)
www.internationalheraldry.com/
www.classic-castle.com/howto/aβ¦
The biggest thing to remember with any kind of flag or heraldry is the Rule of Tincture - "Thou shalt not place metal upon metal nor color upon color." Keep in mind that heraldry is designed to be recognizable at a distance and in varying light conditions. The divisions between metal-on-metal (e.g. gold on silver) and color-on-color (e.g. green on blue) can be difficult to discern, so always separate colors with metals and vice-versa.
If you're designing heraldry for use on a battlefield, the designs should be bold and easily recognizable even in greyscale or black-and-white. Heraldry for nations or lords and ladies can be much more complex and subtle (and if the heraldry represents family lines, it will probably be very complex indeed).
The back-story of the heraldry I've been working on has the initial designs created for the battlefield, only recently beginning to evolve into political identifiers (as the victorious military faction begins splitting into political groups), so I tried to create heraldry that reflected its "design ancestry" of beginning at big-and-simple and just now starting to head towards subtle-and-detailed.
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Oh wow!! Thank you so much for replying in depth with this! I've never heard of the Rule of Tincture but I'll definitely keep it in mind. The heraldry I intend to create is less battlefield related and more along the family line/political spectrum.Β
I think I'm going to take your lead and start big before I go in for the detailed ones. Thank you again for the great links!
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You're welcome! If you're interested, a website that gives information on the background of (and usage of, and exceptions to) the Rule of Tincture is here: www.heraldica.org/topics/tinctβ¦
If you need more information, there are a lot of examples and links to other sources on Wikipedia (I'm pretty sure I originally found at least two of those websites in the citations); those three are just the ones I saved the links to.
The fascinating thing about family heraldry - to me, at least 
Say Lord John Doe marries Lady Jane and, as they both have their own shields - whether because Lady Jane is a warrior herself, or just inherited it from her parents - their heraldry is combined via quartering (placing the senior family's heraldry in the top left and lower right, and the other family's heraldry in the top right and lower left) to create a new, more complex coat of arms.
Any children they have would all use this coat of arms, each with a personal symbol added (usually showing their place in the family line of succession), until they marry in turn. When they do, they would each create a new heraldic variation by adding their spouses' heraldry to their own.
A normal use of quartering can be seen in the flag of Maryland, which was originally the heraldic banner of George Calvert, Lord Baltimore. It combines the heraldry of the Calvert family (father's side) in the first and fourth quarters, and the Crossland family (mother's side) in the second and third quarters.
Usually, you don't see more than two or three levels of quartering before an entirely new coat of arms is created, because the individual elements become far too small. Some people, of course, have taken the merging of heraldry to truly... extravagant heights. Like one of the Dukes of Buckingham, whose design had 719 "quarterings".
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