Re: Learning to draw heraldry
Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 10:08
In my eyes, as long as something is depicted on a shield or on a helmet as a crest (or as a badge), and as long as it can be blazoned, then it counts as heraldry. It might not be very good heraldry, but it's still heraldry.
Nonetheless, if I were a policeman, I wouldn't use a policeman's hat in my arms, not because it doesn't represent me (it undoubtably would had I chosen this profession) but because it just wouldn't look right, it wouldn't be aesthetically pleasing. Arms were born in medieval times, and it only seems right that arms should reflect this, not for reactionary reasons, but because modern objects and themes detract somewhat from the mystical, mythical nature of arms. A wyvern shouldn't wear a baseball cap precisely because its er, a Wyvern. It's a mythical creature that would terrorise villages in the stories of times long gone by. It should look scary and intimidating, not like its a reject from a children's TV show on a Saturday morning. To have it depicted in the way suggested by you, whilst it undoubtably would represent you (but not in the right way heraldically), would; and I apologise for saying so, but it would just look ridiculous. Not to say we can't use other, less vulgar means of representing yourself, like for example a pun or a rebus. Heraldry is much more subtle than the immediately obvious, and rightly so.
Nonetheless, if I were a policeman, I wouldn't use a policeman's hat in my arms, not because it doesn't represent me (it undoubtably would had I chosen this profession) but because it just wouldn't look right, it wouldn't be aesthetically pleasing. Arms were born in medieval times, and it only seems right that arms should reflect this, not for reactionary reasons, but because modern objects and themes detract somewhat from the mystical, mythical nature of arms. A wyvern shouldn't wear a baseball cap precisely because its er, a Wyvern. It's a mythical creature that would terrorise villages in the stories of times long gone by. It should look scary and intimidating, not like its a reject from a children's TV show on a Saturday morning. To have it depicted in the way suggested by you, whilst it undoubtably would represent you (but not in the right way heraldically), would; and I apologise for saying so, but it would just look ridiculous. Not to say we can't use other, less vulgar means of representing yourself, like for example a pun or a rebus. Heraldry is much more subtle than the immediately obvious, and rightly so.