I got invited to join a community project where everyone contributes a card patterned in some way after their coat of arms or at least a coat of arms. As I’ve long had a Sabertooth Tiger motif going, I made this!
By the way, if any of you happen to be interested in medieval stuff and/or heraldry, I’m in a heraldry discord server that is oddly enough the closest I’ve managed to get to feeling like these boards in their heyday when Bionicle was less dead. It’s a super fun group
That tiger’s awful wolf-like… Is there a particular inspiration for the helmet design and its little lantern?
wish I had the time for stuff like that these days 
Okay i have explanations for both of those things haha— So back when heraldry was actually practiced as an important identification art, most people hadn’t actually seen the animals that people were putting on their shields, so you’d end up with odd looking artist’s renditions and such where they may look a bit more like another animal. So you could say that to have fun with the spirit of that I didn’t exactly strive for perfect anatomical accuracy for the tiger and just had fun with it.
As for the lantern, my coat of arms (because in America anyone can have one of those) is this:
I apologize for geeking out here; I initially got into the hobby through commission work and have come to find it quite enjoyable
Ah, that makes sense. Now draw one in the style of 14th century illustrations 
Fair enough. I guess my next question is why he’s got a
Are you planning on doing more Boards-centric ones? Not to add more work to your actual job ofc but an Eljay coat of arms might be funny 
That would be pretty funny; I might have to. I’ve already done Lewa so that’s close but it would need adjusting. Wait, why’s he got a what?
Whoops I didn’t finish that thought 
Why he’s got a scimitar and a european style of armor 
Oh, to be honest I just wanted to draw a curved sword, and it sort of goes with the fangs and the crescent moon motif I guess
Did they even have sabers in the Middle Ages?
The creature he is riding does resemble a mix between a wolf and tiger. Still this is a really awesome art you have. Also will we see more artworks of this knight but diminished into a Castle Crashers character? You know there is a Character Customization in the game’s DLC.
I really don’t see how castle crashers has anything to do with this, man.
Sometimes when discussing a topic it helps to, y’know, actually discuss the topic. This is about Sabretooth’s drawing, not any external franchise or fandom or separate potential artwork. If you want to see a certain drawing so badly, it’ be easier for you to draw it yourself.
