A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is divided in half lengthwise. On one side is a polar bear on black, and on the other is a penguin on blue. At the top of the crest, instead of a helmet, is a bust of a person so wrapped up in cold weather gear that none of their skin is visible.

#Heraldecember2025 31 | Cold

This design was actually suggested by my partner for "Apart" but I'd already drawn a lion I really liked, so I saved it for this! And with that, I'm finished with another #Heraldecember! I'm getting better at doing these on-schedule! I had a lot of fun :)

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A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is green, strewn with small pink and yellow flowers, and in the center lies a rabbit on its back, dark grey on its top half and pale on its belly. The helmet at the top of the shield looks like a kid's costume piece made of felt.

#Heraldecember2025 30 | Garden

Based on Rebecca Sugar's story about finding a stuffed animal lost in the yard which had gotten faded. It struck them that things change even when staying put. Because it's a childhood story, I made the helm a little felt kid's costume.

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My heraldecember 2025 armory with all the produced coat of arms day by day.

Happy new year 2026!

Thanks a lot @taritoons.bsky.social for this great session.

My #heraldecember 2025 armory.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 31: Cold

Argent, three hazelnuts proper.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 30: Garden

Vert, fretty Or aspersed with roses argent seeded and barbed Or.

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A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The subtly shovel-shaped shield is blue with a shiny gold saltire and crossed shovels across the center. The helmet at the top of the crest is a kettle hat, with yellow and blue mantling with hand-shaped trim. Emerging from the top of the helmet is a pale hand with a tiny piece of gold pinched between its thumb and forefinger.

#Heraldecember2025 29 | Gold

Referencing the phrase "selling shovels in a gold rush," a rather morally dubious but certainly lucrative way to actually profit from one.

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A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is green, with five smaller shields with small insignias on each. A thin road loops across the shield, threading them together. At the top of the crest, instead of a helmet there's a pilgrim's wide-brimmed hat, with shells set in the brim. Two pilgrim's staffs with shoulder bags hanging from the ends are crossed behind the hat.

#Heraldecember2025 28 | Road

I'm fascinated by medieval pilgrimage imagery, I find it charming how they would collect badges along the way. These aren't based on any actual holy sites, though.

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A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is orange, with a spotted heraldic leopard in yellow walking across it, facing the viewer and baring its fangs and tongue. The helmet at the top of the crest is crowned with elaborate orange and yellow mantling that looks like flames, and topped with a more naturalistically-drawn fire. A charred ribbon reading "Noli Cum Igne Ludere" arcs behind the helmet.

#Heraldecember2025 27 | Leopard

The Latin says "Don't Play With Fire."

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 29: Gold

Per bend Azure and Or, terminating in two ears of barley counterchanged.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 28: Road

Argent, within a bordure Gules, a herald statant Sable.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 27: Leopard

Purpure, a lion rampant chopped up into parts Argent.

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A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The sield is quartered awkwardly, with the top and bottom pieces of a yellow lion on green at top left and bottom right, and the top and bottom pieces of a white rat on blue on the other quarters. Instead of a helmet, there is a janus-head at the top of the crest, both faces looking in opposite directions, one frowning and the other cheerful. The mantling over the lefthand face matches the lion's colors and the other's matches the rat's. Above the heads sits a signpost with arrows pointing in opposite directions.

#Heraldecember2025 26 | Apart

More ludicrous quartering! More!!

This one really laid bare why you shouldn't have colors on colors, I filled out the braid on the torse in dim lighting and could barely tell the difference between the blue and green!

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A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is angular and simple, just a big white field with a comically tiny little man in the center. The helmet at the top of the crest is small and bucket-shaped, with a slit for eyes and holes for breathing, with no further mantling or symbols.

#Heraldecember2025 25 | Room

Hey buddy, gonna put anything else on there? No? Alright...

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A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is divided in half diagonally, one side yellow and the other side blue. An old-fashioned scale is depicted in the center of the shield. Over the helmet at the top of the crest is yellow and blue mantling, and at the top of the helm sits a gold coin with sparkles around it.

#Heraldecember2025 | Talent

A talent is an ancient unit of weight (it varied culture to culture, though) that eventually became a monetary unit as well.

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A heraldic crest, shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is white with a red diagonal stripe, with four gold handbells, small to large, running along the stripe. The helmet at the top of the crest is gold and rather bell-shaped, and the red and white mantling has sleighbells along the strips of fabric. On top of the helmet sits a pair of white handbell gloves.

#Heraldecember2025 | Ring

Bellchoir handbells and gloves!

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A heraldic shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is broken up into quarters, which are each subdivided in half. On the top left and bottom right quarters are a pomelo on green next to a tiny mandarin orange on yellow. On the other quarters are a citron on sky blue over a bitter orange on white. The gold helmet at top of the crest has a domed top with chain mail hanging down, and yellow and green mantling that looks a bit like leaves. On top of the helm sits a lemon.

#Heraldecember2025 22 | Mandarin
I wound up down a rabbithole reading about citrus breeds, which reminds me of quartered crests for royal family trees. So this is the lemon's lineage: a pomelo and a mandarin orange make a bitter orange, which is then crossed with a citron.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 26: Apart

Impaled, the second Or, a heart inverted Purpure.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 25: Room (for improvement)

Quartered: 1. Bleu Celeste three tulips palewise Or, Rosé, and Gules, stemmed and leafed Vert. 2. Azure, a mullet of six Or. 3. Beige, a clock face Sable. 4. Argent, an apple proper. A chief Vert a badger passant proper.—

#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 24: Talent

Argent, an ox rampant Sable, horned, yoked, and ringed Gules, overall a saltire of the last.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 23: Ring

Gules, a gore Or terminating in an annulet in sinister chief of the same. The gore charged with three annulets Gules.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 22: Mandarin

Azure, above a base chevronny Sable and Argent, a peacock passant wings displayed Argent armed Or, in canton a bezant.

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A heraldic shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is yellow, depicting an egg being cracked into a frying pan. The helmet at the top of the crest has its faceplates open as if singing, and has a yellow and black mantle draped in zigzags of fabric coming from under its torse. Issuing from the torse is a black beetle.

#Heraldecember2025 21 | Yesterday

When Paul McCartney was writing the song Yesterday, he didn't have the lyrics down for a while. Until he had it figured out, he would sing "scrambled eggs" instead. All I could think of when drawing this one. :'D

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A heraldic shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is blue, with a white and orange cat paw in the center as if raising it to ask a question. The helmet at the top of the crest has a pointed face that looks hard to see out of, elaborate orange and white mantling with cat-paw-shaped scalloping, and on top sits a cat paw holding a blue heart.

#Heraldecember2025 20 | Question

hi one quastion

hi i need to be loved AND i can't fuckin see in this helmet

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A heraldic shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is red, with a triskele in the center in the manner of the flag of Sicily: a central human face with three bent legs radiating out. This one is flushed and puffing with exertion, wearing a sweatband over its blond curls. Its legs are wearing running shorts, athletic socks and sneakers, and arcing out between each leg is a towel. The helmet at the top of the crest is wearing a victorious laurel wreath, with a blender bottle set on top. Arcing behind the helm is a motto ribbon reading "Nullus Dolor Nullus Luctator."

#Heraldecember2025 19 | Exercise

Even a triskele must keep fit! The Latin approximates "no pain, no gain."

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A heraldic shield set at a tilt, rendered in ink and copic markers. The shield is black, with a thin triangle of white running from top to bottom. At the widest end of white is a small orange cat, walking with its tail in the air. The helmet at the top of the crest has a face guard that looks a little like cat whiskers, elaborate black and orange mantling, and a fish skeleton sat on top of its head.

#Heraldecember2025 18 | Alley

A little bit inspired by Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats.

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A heraldic shield set at a tilt, rendered in copic markers and ink. The shield uses heraldic symbols and shapes to recreate the "Man." meme, wherein a horse looks out over the ocean seemingly pensively. Instead of a normal helm on top, there's an elaborate horse armor helmet.

#Heraldecember2025 17 | Man

Man.

Very amused that this is the only nonhuman helm so far but it was too funny a concept to pass up.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 21: Yesterday

Argent, between a pair of palettes Gules a pineapple proper.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 20: Question

Argent, upon a trimount Vert a blackbird proper, in chief sinister a question mark Vert.

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 18: Alley

Or masoned Sable, a pale of the second charged in base with a cat statant guardant Argent.

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