#heraldry

[illustratus]

Seeking Sanctuary ('The Wounded Knight') by George Sheridan Knowles

[nessiopeia]

You know I will actually

[tobacconist]

[morteraphan]

🐺 Forgotten Knight 🗝️

[shoomlah]

Extremely excited to announce these official Sirrus and Achenar prints that I did for Myst's 30th Anniversary! MY BOYS. My heraldic boys.

(They should be available soon, though there's a chance to win a set of the limited foil-embossed editions over on Cyan's twitter 👀📕📘)

[we-are-knight]

Knight Study 02, by Luis De La Cerda

[thestuffedalligator]

I’m anti-monarchy as a rule but I’m pro-heraldry.

I fucking love heraldry. I love it as a part of old European nonsense along with the clown egg register and cheese rolling. I love that you can’t say blue, yellow, and red, you have to say “azure, or, and gules.” I love the dozens of words you have to use to describe how a lion is standing, how many legs it’s standing on, and which way it’s looking. I love nebbish heraldry dorks who say shit like “B-b-but it breaks tincture code!” because you used the wrong shade in a palette that has six shades of reddish-brown and one shade of green.

It’s so much nonsense, and you can probably make very good arguments against heraldry as a rule, but if you say “Our family crest has a stag with wings stepping on the devil” I will still think that’s the coolest shit I’ve ever heard. Holy shit. Do you come from a family of vampire hunters

[entnoot]

Sometimes when I’ve got a drawing block I just need to draw unicorns about it and then I’m fine 👑

[sluggoonthestreet]

Saul has appointed himself Chief Dandelion Officer and Herald of the Chalkbox.

[drachenwiki]

Interesting fact for all the dracoprescitivists out there: While in British heraldry, a four-legged dragon is called a dragon and a two-legged dragon is called a wyvern (we all know that one), in German heraldry, the two-legged variety is called "Drache" i.e. "dragon", while the four-legged variant is called "Lindwurm". Regardless of any serpentine form of the body or number of wings.

So we should always keep in mind that any classification system that anybody might use for mythical creatures is highly culturally specific, sometimes even more specific than that, and should only be used in a general sense when your readers are aware what you are talking about.

[copperbadge]

For a bit of fun I've been working on arms for the Shivadh novels -- one for the country, one for the royal family, one each for the duchies of Shivadlakia and Askaz, and also one for Eddie, Duke of the Orange, which is a title created for him so his arms are brand new. (For the curious, Richard the Librarian does double-duty as King of Arms, demonstrating that under his orderly and slightly fussy exterior beats the heart of a vicious punster.)

Anyway Eddie's is going to involve ducks, because his title is technically "Dux a L'Orange", and I had to google what heraldic ducks might look like and I can't stop laughing.

THEY LOOK SO LUDICROUS. IT'S PERFECT. They're so adorable and dumb-looking it tickles my very soul. This is the arms of Athis-de-l'Orne in France, and I'm sorry if you live there but your ducks are absurd.

[ID: A shield-shaped coat of arms; it is white with two black chevrons on it pointing upwards. At the bottom and the top two corners are ducks done in black, with one foot forward as if they are in the act of walking; they are only very slightly cartoonish, but their odd proportions and pose are extremely funny. At least, if you're me.]

[illustratus]

[cuties-in-codices]

the biscione

in the "livre de drapeaux", freiburg/fribourg, c. 1647-48

source: Freiburg, Staatsarchiv, Gesetzg. und Versch. 53, fol. 19r

[sennamaticart]

I've been reading about and taking lots of notes about the art of Heraldry. Scanned some notes and digitally colored them!

[archerinventive]

When they tell you to look more serious but the field is your happy place and you just can’t stop smiling.

Wishing you all a magnificent Monday.

May you be able to spend some time in/at your own happy place this week. ❤️

Crew credit to: Loni D Fairman, Sarah F, and Rae.

Photo Credit to: Sarah F, Liv F.H., and Emma Rockenbeck :)

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Handbook of Ornament (1900) Franz Sales Meyer