Coats of Arms

[Vail Marston]

I've been making a lot of use of the Coat of Arms Visual Designer lately. It's nice to be able to present the players in my campaign with a coat of arms for any NPC without going through a lot of effort

Here are a few examples that I've processed further with graphics editing software to get a "hand-painted" look:

 

[Rhun]

Wow, those are pretty sweet! I like them a lot.

 

[El Mahdi]

What program do you use, and how do you use it, to get the "hand painted" look?

That's a really cool effect. Adds a lot to the look.

 

[Vail Marston]

What program do you use, and how do you use it, to get the "hand painted" look?

I use Paint Shop Pro with the Virtual Painter 5 plugin.

My basic procedure is to enlarge the orginal Coat of Arms Visual Designer image by 300%, since Virtual Painter works better at a larger size.

Then I color in the Coat of Arms with gradients and textures, again because Virtual Painter gives a better result if there is more variance in the image.

Finally, I run the Virtual Painter plugin. Usually I combine the Oil Painting and Impasto filters to get the hand painted shield look.

The images posted here I resized back to their original dimensions.

 

[El Mahdi]

Thanks! Sounds easy enough.

 

[Hjorimir]

Those are great! I hope you share more down the road!

 

[Vail Marston]

Here are a few more arms, and I have created an album that includes several not posted here.

 

[Hjorimir]

Thanks for sharing and experience for you!

 

[Eosin the Red]

Great stuff. Yoink!

 

[t_catt11]

wow

Those are superb! I need to learn how to do that - or to comission someone to do some of these for the ruling families in my campaign setting.