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Kenneth Mansfield
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Location: Kentucky, USA
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 Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:37 pm Post subject: Ton de Witte's arms |
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The arms of our esteemed Secretary.
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Iain Boyd
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Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent, Kenneth.
You seem to be getting into the swing of it and I look forward to seeing your next design.
Now that you have developed a template, how long is it taking you to produce a new design from scratch and how much are you relying on existing computer artwork and how much on your own artist abilities to produce new charges?
I do have one minor quibble, if you will forgive me?
Is it possible to add highlights to the bats wings in the crest?
All the best,
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Kenneth Mansfield
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Location: Kentucky, USA
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| Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| Iain Boyd wrote: | Excellent, Kenneth.
You seem to be getting into the swing of it and I look forward to seeing your next design. |
Thanks, Iain.
| Quote: | | Now that you have developed a template, how long is it taking you to produce a new design from scratch and how much are you relying on existing computer artwork and how much on your own artist abilities to produce new charges? |
Having already drawn the helm, mantling, shield and motto scroll, I am now drawing everything else from scratch. Any new charges and crest items have to be created and it really just depends on how complicated they are as to how long it takes. The dragons' heads were obviously the most difficult things in this achievement and took about half an hour. | Quote: | I do have one minor quibble, if you will forgive me?
Is it possible to add highlights to the bats wings in the crest? |
I suppose I could, but what I am doing here are really just line drawings colored with gradients. The only "shading"is that of the bevel of the shields on which everything is absolutely flat line drawing. I hope to do more with the application of shade and light in future works, but likely not using this templated method.
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Ton de Witte
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Joined: 23 Oct 2007
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Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Kenneth, A very nice picture, beautiful, thank you very much. 
I have only one remark the tongues of the dragons should be gules.
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Peter Harling
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Joined: 17 May 2009
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Location: Lancashire UK
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| Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Kenneth your artwork is progressing by "leaps and bounds." Excellent.
Regards .......... Peter
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John Jones
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:28 am Post subject: |
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Every one of our IAAH artists has his or own style.
In my view Kenneth's heraldic artistry has always been first class and I would not like to see him move away from his own (very clear) style.
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Kenneth Mansfield
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Thanks very much for the kind words.
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