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Here is a (bad) scan of the cover art for the SCA newsletter I mentioned before:
Someone else is doing the calligraphy, which will go in that block at the bottom. The lines aren't as fuzzy and faint in real life as they are in this scan; I just can't get the software to cooperate. (It also insists on believing that my scanner is 11" long when it's really 14", hence the tight fit. The original is just over 11" tall...)
It's based on a page from a Hebrew manuscript c.1275 (German). The original has one of the names of God in the center in large letters, with birds (like the one in this picture) and leaves/flowers surrounding it. I replaced the name with a comet, which is the symbol of the local SCA group. Most of the other critters are based on ones in the original.
Someone else is doing the calligraphy, which will go in that block at the bottom. The lines aren't as fuzzy and faint in real life as they are in this scan; I just can't get the software to cooperate. (It also insists on believing that my scanner is 11" long when it's really 14", hence the tight fit. The original is just over 11" tall...)
It's based on a page from a Hebrew manuscript c.1275 (German). The original has one of the names of God in the center in large letters, with birds (like the one in this picture) and leaves/flowers surrounding it. I replaced the name with a comet, which is the symbol of the local SCA group. Most of the other critters are based on ones in the original.