My newest design, for my family. I actually had to really put this together. There are many sites on the web that offer to sell you jpgs of coats of arms, but a) they're jpgs and b) none of the nicest quality ones in terms of graphic integrity actually depicted the Robertson coat of arms correctly. The fist holding the crown was missing, and that's an important part of the COA. One depicted the fist and crown, but the boars were tiny. So I thought to heck with it, and came up with my own.
Here's where having a clipart library with images which can be used for anything comes in handy. I had bought one oh, about 10 years ago. And quite a bit of the art in it is cheesy. But it happened to have a huge section on COAs. So I was able to meld together the main piece (the shield with helmet and cloth swirls) with a fist and crown, and a boar's head. I'm quite happy with the result and though it uses some ready-made graphic design elements, it's original too because I am the one who pulled the pieces together (redrawing several of them for good vector lines).
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this is awesome. I too am a robertson looking for a good version of the coat of arms. and i was about to make my own. but i found this. ha.
ReplyDeleteim also dhonnchaidh, thought id add that youre not meant to use the crown and fist device unless you are robertson himself or unless it is surrounded by a buckled belt to show that you are his follower.
ReplyDeleteVery nice job on the COA! Just a note: pretty sure they're wolves, not boars, symbolising the last 3 wolves killed in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteYep, wolves heads!!and I am a Robertson.
ReplyDeleteJust a note..they weren't boar heads. it is 3 wolf heads....
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I was doing a search for the three wolves heads. I did notice a small detail about the tongues are to be blue lol something to do with only a male can be chieftain.
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