Sketchbook

An emblazon of TheRomanRuler's coat of arms.

An emblazon of Aemdal's coat of arms.

Four heraldic illustrations I made as a reward for a tongue-in-cheek challenge.

The coat of arms of Alb, done for as a last-minute backup entry for a competition. I had to do it in under an hour, hence some bits aren't as good as I would have liked.

Something I've wanted to draw for a while: the coat of arms of the Heraldic Community

This is fanart for the video game Ikenfell (disclaimer: I also wrote the Wikipedia article). It didn't really turn out as well as I expected, but to be fair, I haven't really done this kind of perspective before, or this many characters.

Kumatora from the excellent game Mother 3. Although it has its problematic elements, it's still a great disappointment that there's no official localisation, especially given that one could easily rectify them. I highly recommend Mato's fan translation.

A depiction of the arms of GlacialDragon, as part of a trade with him. No relation to the book of the same name.

I did some riduckulous mantling for my half of a trade with the heraldic community member Vaakkuna.

A rework of an old environmental art concept I once drew up. The original was so bad that I haven't included it here.

The anatir (Lutriformes antiatra) is an animal that I made up as a small child. Here, I've drawn one emerging from a box.

A pro bono emblazonment of blahsd's arms, done as a way to practice more complex heraldic illustration. Apparently, he's of Italian ducal ancestry, hence all the fancy crowns and stuff.

Some more fan-art of Desolation. Seriously, go check it out if you haven't already.

A new emblazonment created for my coat of arms page; I felt the old one was looking a bit rough given changes I had developed in my artstyle.

A foray into character drawing. In clockwise order: programmer, engineer, adventurer, and mathematician.

Fan-art for the really cool-looking Portal 2 mod . Since I often prefer the look of my drawings before I colour stuff, I decided to scan it twice, first after inking, and then after colouring, producing the diptych you see here. Personally, I think it would have been nicer without the logo, but it's not like I can un-draw it, can I?

For the Heraldry Community's Secret Santa, I emblazoned Lellistair's arms.

Drawn as condolences for the death of Canadian herald Claire Boudreau.

A new header image, designed to be simpler (and better drawn as my art skills have improved) than its replacement.

A quick drawing that I did as a personal wallpaper.

An illustration of JK-Kino's arms.

An armorial of various heraldic community members.

Unfortunately, GlacialDragon has since abandoned the mole as their symbol.

One of my favourite heraldic drawings, if only due to how wild and out-there I went with its stylisation and extraneous elements.

A depiction of Sophie's arms. Not sure if I like how the combination of realistic shading and fairly stylised forms turned out.

Created for an Easter emblazonment exchange, hence the trippy pattern in the background. The swirls are supposed to be reminiscent of an easter egg pattern.

An old emblazonment (depiction) of my arms, since superseded by the current one on my heraldry page owing to improvements in illustration skill.

Aemdal's arms depict a shachichoko - a mythical Japanese combination of a carp and a tiger.

The medieval unicorn depicted here is a much fiercer creature than its modern equivalent.

Contrary to common belief, "No motto" is not an ancient Serbian saying. Bongo has since change his design somewhat from the one depicted here.

Di's design is simple, yet effective.

These arms contain a calopus or chatloup.

The first of these sketches I created; made in exchange for his depiction of my arms.

The western burrowing owl in these arms is a native of Mexico.

I'm not very good at drawing lions.

IguanaParrots' arms contain the interesting combination of a blue jay and a deer.

One of my favourite designs out of these sketches.

It would appear that the cat is out of the bag.

Lellistair's motto - also rendered as "Ecce video caelos apertos", comes from Acts 7:56 in the Bible.

Moman's arms have both a heraldic motto and a slogan, which are designed to work both separately and together.

These are my arms - for more info about them, see my heraldic achievement page.

The red flag represents the armiger's political beliefs. The frog represents - well, I don't know, it's just a frog.

SiraanNataan's arms are a masterclass in effective design.

The 'tacticool' merchandise is not part of the original heraldic achievement.

Oh deer...

A quick sketch/reimagining of a creature that I invented during my childhood.

Another experiment in the vein of the cubes (see below) depicting a wall of some sort. If I remember correctly, the panels could slide out in a futuristic fashion.

"All the better to see you with!"
I did this at approximately 2 am, hence the dubious quality. Well that, and I was even crappier at art back then.

Only barely belongs in here, but why not. A standardised set of warning signs concordant with my graphical style - mostly real, but with a few fictional hazards thrown in.

A little test sketch that I did of some - well, cubes.

Don't forget Poland! A stylised depiction of the traditional arms of the Polish Kingdom. As my heraldic knowledge wasn't the greatest when I made it, it has a few flaws.

Phil Fish might be an, ahem, controversial figure within the indie gaming community, but whatever your opinion of Mr. Fish, I still think Fez is a great game. This image contains the main character, Gomez, leaping into one of Fez's trans-dimensional levels.

Divided into five separately released acts (their long release schedule causing much consternation), Kentucky Route Zero is a narrative video game about the titular mysterious highway and the strange people who surround it. As the game centres around a journey (both literal and metaphorical), I decided that its in-game map was the perfect thing to base this vignette on.

Although the name sounds like an import from a Barbie set, the game has a lot more depth to it. My choice of art and composition reflects that.

Although Mel isn't an indie game, but rather a mod for a, well, very popular one, it is underrated. Therefore, I made an exception to this series' usual rule of promoting small creators. Although I still think it's good, since then my opinion of it has soured a bit, so I probably wouldn't make one today.

No, this isn't the Pokémon game, but a really cool (and very underrated!) platformer by Daniel Linssen. This was the first of my series of indie gaming vignettes that I did, and therefore it has a much more literal take on its subject matter than later ones I did.

In retrospect, this was done in a very similar style to the Sun and Moon one; I could have done something more unique.

That's six Vs. Although the game is a two-dimensional platformer, I decided to do this in 3D (well, fake 3D). And yes, the game does have the weird "OBEY"s - they've not my doing.

A parodic map designed as a hypothetical province layout for an early Europa Universalis game, making fun of developer Paradox's somewhat flawed understanding of geography.