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Good evening (morning/day/night for someone perhaps), my dearest community,

I've come to you to ask your opinions. I am making a coat of arms for local region, which is made out of a regular spanish shield, inside of it a silver triangle and a dark green and red in the sides. These colors represent the colors of the local region. Inside the triangle there is a wild strawberry. Currently I've made 8 slightly different types of them. There very early made, not smoothed and polished, well, a bit ugly too. I am not a professional, don't know much about computer graphics etc, been doing things like these ~ for a year.
So here goes, I've uploaded a big image (not very great quality) of them, please vote which one you like best, or comment if you have time and will to do it.

Here's the image (Warning, very large!) Here's a smaller (still big) version EDIT: heres a link, can view fullscreen Please don't be rash. I really need to know which one looks better in order to know what to make next.
If the image is way too big, let me know and i will try to make it smaller.

EDIT: typo

Lol, the smaller image is bigger!

Number four is great IMO. Nothing overlaps, and it looks clean and simple.

The lower strawberry in 1 should move a bit to the left.

1 sort of draws your eye off to the side and top and looks weird.
2+3 are mostly mirror images of each other and are both okay.
5-8 have just too much going on.

4 might be my favorite although if you could make a mirror image (like 2+3 are to eachother) that might be better. Right now the red parts in the middle are near the red side, and green parts near green side, which I don't think it looks as good.

It's a little thing that no one cares about anymore, but in many pictures the white of the flower touches the grey of the background. Both white and grey are counted as Argent in heraldry. And it is not correct heraldry to have argent touching argent.

Three is my favorite, except for the stem that supports the big strawberry. It looks slightly off.

Thank you for your comments!
This is very helpful.

Awfulcopter wrote:It's a little thing that no one cares about anymore, but in many pictures the white of the flower touches the grey of the background. Both white and grey are counted as Argent in heraldry. And it is not correct heraldry to have argent touching argent.

Three is my favorite, except for the stem that supports the big strawberry. It looks slightly off.

Ah... well it was either that, or make the flower in silver, wich would make the flower "invisible".

Looks like I voted with the masses. I chose that one because of the largest strawberry coming into the foreground; compositionally, it is the most visually appealing one. It has the most flowers, strawberries and leaves in it without becoming too "busy" as well.

There's a bit too much going on in 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 look a little strange with the leaves at the bottom. I'd go for 2 or 3.

Might I ask what prompted you to do this?

Horizon wrote:Might I ask what prompted you to do this?

The local region's council.