[antir-heralds] highlighting help

[chrisact at qwickconnect.net]

Britt wrote:
> On 10/7/07, chrisact at qwickconnect.net <chrisact at qwickconnect.net> wrote:
>   
>> Or, for examples of plummety, see:
>> http://www.badger.cx/heraldry/roll/display.php?id=122
>> http://www.badger.cx/heraldry/roll/display.php?id=123
>> http://www.badger.cx/heraldry/roll/display.php?id=124
>>
>> Yes, they are numerically adjacent; no, I don't know why.
>>     
>
> ?ecause when Badger gets working he uses similar themes to render
> different pieces of armory and loads them up in a block.  So he was
> working on plumetty one day, and...  :)
>   

Makes sense; should've thought of that myself. <:-/

> I'd like to note here that the black outline is something we've
> perpetrated in the SCA but it is NOT a part of the correct, period
> design in displaying armory.  The requirement for line drawings for
> submission and the need for several colored copies as well started
> heralds telling clients that to save effort, just run off ten copies
> of the line drawing and color half of them.  This is a great idea and
> guarantees that the line drawings match the colored emblazon perfectly
> (a line drawing that is different from the colored emblazon is grounds
> for return, matching is required).
>
> HOWEVER, this has also led to black outlines around everything.
> Painted renditions, sewn, anything.  If you want to be really
> authentic, do not outline anything in black when you render the
> armory, or if you do, make it totally minimal, just to pick out
> detail.  The black outline is a SCAdianism and not part of 'real'
> heraldry. I was shocked when someone once asked me how thick the
> outlines on her embroidery project needed to be, she was shocked when
> I replied, "Nonexistant."
>
> Which brings me to this plumetty.  All three of the examples have too
> much black outlining in the plumetty.  AElfgifu's and Jolyon's are
> acceptable for submission, barely, while AElric's would be borderline
> enough that it might be returned for a fimbriated field treatment,
> which is not allowed. An excellent way to render plumetty is with each
> trait colored in, no outline around them, and highlighting picked out
> either in a darker version of the tincture of the trait or in the
> tincture of the other traits. Hence AElric could make that little
> 'rib' mark on his gules traits Or, and the ones on his Or traits could
> be gules.  That's a period depiction of such things, as well.
>   

BTW, AElfgifu's bezants are fine; just a hint of outlining to set them 
off from the rest of the chief. At least, IMO, that's how things should 
look (if one can't for some reason manage to do with no outline at all, 
of course).

> And for submission forms, metallic gel pens make nice highlight marks
> on the colors. Test your pen first, but if it doesn't fade out in 48
> hours, it'll probably last well in the Laurel files. (Yes, this is the
> Marker Kommissar saying this - I found to my surprise my silver gel
> pen survived 7 years on a submission form.)  Great for sable, azure
> and purpure charges and keeps them from looking like stencil
> silhouettes.  So does fine-line white-out, of course, but use
> sparingly because anything that adds weight to the lines might
> eventually flake off.
>
> Eschew quasi-fimbriation! Eliminate black outlining! Get that mascara
> off your wolves and dragons!  :)
>
> - Teceangl
>   

True. Even lady dragons don't wear mascara.

Now, dragon-ladies,...

{gd&r}


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