heraldry

working on it a little bit because I'm done with all my other art obligations-ish?? and I want to get it done. and because sumafu and penisu-kun leave me daily tweets to work on it.

I started to wiki articles about heraldry because I want to include a coat of arms. But designing symbols of any sort always requires research and lots of design ideas. I also have 2 other kingdoms I want to design, but since they're all different cultures, I'm just researching all kinds of coat of arms type of stuff AAAA.

I'm pretty sure the reason why I'm doing all this hardcore research for something so small is because I want to understand what it is that I'm symbolizing when I am working on this design???? I guess b/c I would go kind of crazy if I did something arbitrary......... lol I guess design stuff creeps in my thought process.

Arydan 001

Arydan is a sister kingdom to the kingdom of Matarin. Actually, there are 3 kingdoms in this fantasy-verse that have formed an alliance, Matarin, Arydan, and Sol Rhija. I had time to actually try to map my cities out in some sort of fantasy world map in my sketchbook... will explain this world (and all of it's connections!!) in detail at a later time.

Matarin 001

finallyfinallyFINALLYFINALLYFINALLYFINALLY I am drawing things from this world out. And explaining it. And sharing it. I randomly get self-conscious about the characters/worlds that I think up... for some reason I think that people will think they are lame. But at the same time I know that I shouldn't worry because I'm allowed to create what I want. Especially because my characters/stories are things I created out of my free time.

This universe and the characters from it are very personal and important to me, which is probably why I haven't drawn anything from it until now.

lacivré 001

<< I've been updating the gallery with these pictures as well!

Going to dump some stuff. This post might be a little text heavy but the next one is seriously going to be a monster.