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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Thanks to #heraldecember2025, I uploaded several charges to @wikicommons.bsky.social:

* rampant greyhound
* 3 compass roses
* chakana
* digitalis purpura
* manx loaghtan's head caboshed
* helmet guardant
* morning star with stick
* pickaxe
* 2 ilex trees

Good harvest 👍

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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Guess who's done 👀 #Heraldecember2025 #heraldecember #heraldry #coatofarms #artistsofbluesky #traditionalart #emblazonment

Day 31 : Cold

"Coupé d’argent et d’azur, à un iceberg brochant sur la partition, de bleu céleste sur argent et d’argent sur azur."

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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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Day 30 : Garden

"D'azur à une pioche accostée d’un jar, d’un houx vrillé arraché, le tout d’argent."

In ref to my "pépé", a miner who used allotment garden.

In french "d'un jar d'un houx vrillé" is pronounced almost like "d'un jardin ouvrier". Canting arms.

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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.

youtu.be/KLVq0IAzh1A

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Day 29 : Gold

"D’or à l’ombre de soleil accompagnée de trois ombres de fleurs de lis."

Louis XIV, the Sun king, made extensive use of gold.

The ombre de sun reflects the king death and the ombre de fleur-de-lis the end of the french monarchy.

Only gold remains.

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Day 28 : Road

"Tiercé en pal : au 1, parti ondé d’azur et d’or ; au 2, de cendré à sept billettes et deux demies rangées en pal et mouvantes du chef et de la pointe ; au 3, de sinople plain."

Between sea and forest... on the road again...

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 28: Road

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

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Day 27 : Leopard

"Parti d’argent et de gueules, à un lion et une panthère héraldique affrontés de l’un en l’autre."

Leopard: from latin "leo" and "pardus" (panthera... heraldic panthera of course).

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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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Day 26 : apart

"De sinople au pal déjoint d’argent accompagné en chef d’un écureuil assis et en pointe de trois noix, le tout d’or."

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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 26: Apart

Impaled, the second Or, a heart inverted Purpure.

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Day 25 : Room

"Écartelé en sautoir : 1) d’azur ; 2, 3, 4) d’argent ; le 4 à la pointe de tenné ; brochant sur le tout, à un carreau de tenné maçonné en pal de sable, chargé d’un pal retrait surchargé d’une billette couchée mouvante du chef et des flancs, le tout d'argent."

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Day 24 : Talent

"De sable à un chameau couché accompagné de trois couronnes, le tout d’or, à une île de Ceylan d’argent au point du chef."

The Three Princes of Serendip... which talent: w.wiki/F8Ah

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#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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Day 23 : Ring

"D’azur à un ouroboros suspendu à une chaine posée en chevron versé et mouvante du chef, le tout d’argent."

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