Contributing

Book of Traceable Heraldic Art – Jan 31, 2025

Add Your Art to This Book

If you are an armory illustrator, or a "herald painter" as folks would

have said in period, and you're willing to share your images with the

SCA community, I would welcome your contribution to this

collection. You can send me images you’ve already created, or

identify something I’m missing and draw something new to share.

Illustrations should be drawn with a solid outline, and not filled or

excessively shaded, so that they may be easily traced and colored in

whichever tinctures a client selects — just as you would draw them

for the black-and-white outline version of an SCA heraldic

submission.

I'm including multiple styles for common charges, representing

different regional traditions, varying historical periods, and assorted

illustration styles, so if there's already a lion rampant in the collection

that doesn't mean you can't send me another.

Formats and Addresses

You can send me your art in whichever way is most convenient to

you, and I'll do our best to convert it as necessary.

Illustrations may be uploaded to my web site at

http://digitalherald.org/upload-art/.

If you have vector files, you can send those in any standard format

(PDF, EPS, SVG), or I can accept bitmapped drawings or scanned

images (PNG, TIFF, GIF, JPEG) as long as the resolution is sufficient

to preserve the details.

Alternately, you can mail paper copies to me for scanning, care of

Traceable Heraldic Art, 219 W 106th St #1E, New York, NY 10025.

However you send your art, make sure you include your email

address so I can follow up with you, and either your society name or

your modern name (or both) so I can give you proper credit.

Licensing & Copyright

Any images you contribute remain yours, but by submitting them you

grant me an license to adapt and distribute them for heraldic and

artistic use within the Society for Creative Anachronism.

In order to ensure that people who use this collection to create their

device or badge can do so with a minimum of complication, I'm only

including images which members of the SCA community can

combine with other elements to create their own armory, without

requesting special permission, paying a fee, or providing attribution

every time they paint their device on their shield or display a banner.

Our standard license for contributions is the Creative Commons

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license,

with an additional grant that no attribution is required for heraldic or

artistic use by members of the SCA community. These terms will be

used for any art you contribute without specifying another license.

If you want to ensure that your art is not used by a business you can

opt for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-

ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, with the

same grant of non-attribution within the SCA community. This

indicates that a business may not use your art as part of their logo or

signage, and may not sell products that incorporate your design,

unless they first contact you to negotiate special permission.

Alternately, if you’re willing to make your art freely available to

anyone with no restrictions at all, you may place it in the public

domain. I will still credit you as the creator of the image, but then

anyone will be able to copy, modify, and redistribute your illustration

in any way they’d like.

If you are not comfortable with these license terms, or you have

questions about what they mean, please contact me before submitting

your images to make sure I understand your requirements.