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"Hard to get the lighting right indoors."
Rudyard and Murdoch in a vaguely sorted photo, likely found in some library archive or stash of aging, yellowing documents in an attic.
Murdoch and Cliff have a little spat about what counts as a scary campfire tale.
Art, voice acting, video editing by DWC Marshal Arts Original script (with modification) from The Smoke Room, a Goodnight Fellowship Visual Novel
What's my name? What's my station? Oh, just tell me what I should do I don't need to be kind to the armies of night That would do such injustice to you Or bow down and be grateful And say, "Sure, take all that you see." To the men who move only in dimly lit halls And determine my future for me
Seven years ago, the first picture in this lineup was made to observe May the 4th, in celebration of Star Wars Day. Featuring at-the-time not-as-fleshed-out Louis Percival and an unnamed Sith-coded antagonist, it was a silly little thing to express my interest in the franchise. 7 years later, Louis is a fleshed-out character, with his own set of insecurities, ego, and drives.
The antagonist would transform into his brother, whose motives would go from edgy bloodlust to a struggle for agency.
The Percivals series would not exist the way it does without Star Wars. While the Percivals is its own series now with no ties to the Lucas IP, a lot of the visual cues, themes, and world aesthetics were inspired by the analog retro-future that was seen in the original films, Rogue One, and in series like Andor. For that, I owe that space opera a debt of gratitude.
I just wish I had more time to work on the Percivals haha. Happy May the Fourth!
HAPPY MAY DAY, THE WORKERS’ HOLIDAY!
At a time when too many gleefully abrogate their conscious efforts to machines which enrich the pockets of the owner class and upend communities, we must uphold the innate, indomitable, and immortal spark of creation only gained through the lived personal and collective experiences of breathing beings.
It is not through the surrender of our faculties to so-called miracle machines and the upheaval of whole economic sectors that we achieve liberation. Only through broad solidarity of the working people the world over can we break the chains that bind the soul and reclaim that which has been stolen from us: self-determination over our destiny.
It is in this spirit that we should observe May Day, upholding the tradition of revolutionary movements of the past that punched upward against their holders of their shackles; upholding the tradition of millions who dared to struggle with everything to lose but a world to gain.
Long live the unity of the Workers of the World! Long live the First of May!
"You see it, too?"
"Yeah."
"'least I'm not alone, huh?"
Ft. Murdoch Byrnes and Sam Ayers from The Smoke Room, a Goodnight Fellowship Visual Novel
In a move I recognize is fairly ironic, you can actually now get your official portraits of Krasnov and Metatron on my INPRNT!
A NEW SYSTEM IN THE WAKE OF NEW DEMANDS
To those who don't know, me and my family are being forced to move. I didn't know until last week, when the news was sprung on us that the property owner would be selling the house we've lived in for over 10 years when the lease ends in June.
As we're scrambling to figure out a place to land, two things outside of the enormity of the physical and technical effort needed to move are inevitables:
Higher Cost of Living
Higher Rent
Across the board, these two truths will follow us wherever we decide to move to.
Of course, as a freelancer, my income may strain or even have to be supplemented by a second, retail job again. But, having worked retail for 4 years and prizing my own independence and service to people interested in my stories or commissioning me, I would like to avoid that at all hazards.
Freelancing comes with it a level unpredictability, but it also offers the ability to scale, modify approach, and adapt to situation-specific demands.
So, at the current moment, the situation is demanding that all burners be on, the gas to be floored, all stops to be pulled.
To achieve, this, I'm pushing three fronts as described in the chart:
Pushing the Print Shop that you can find on INPRNT!
Pushing the Patreon as the primary exclusive and early access platform
Catching up on the backlog and returning to regular commission queues.
I will try my very best not only to maintain this "Fight On Three Fronts" System, but to keep y'all updated on the moving situation.
Thank you for attention, folks. In solidarity,
-DWC
Words of comfort
Ft. Wolfgang Seamus
“Eternal smile.”
Print of former Vulpiet leader, M.G. Krasnov, c. 1994
RASK
From the Goodnight Fellowship Visual Novel, Hurstchapel.
"One single thing will break the siege..."
CRITOU LEFT (top to bottom) Rafan Spex, W. Harold Harlan, Aryte Vesperia
CENTER Damek Critou
RIGHT (top) Harrison Dorner
RIGHT BOTTOM (left to right) Bessel Sentis, Ezo Karasuga
Set in The Percivals by DWC Art by DWC Marshal Arts
Someday at Christmas...
Art by DWC Marshal Arts Top row, left to right: Tycho Coran, Xever Percival, Ewan E. Figes Bottom row, left to right: Ezo (by Ezo), Kirk Laklan, Louis Percival, August Zander
Some late Christmas art on account of me being very sick the past week or so!
Hi!
Going through Tumblr archives recently made me realize just how many details there are on each scene (like the "movie-like" posters which have each so many reference once you know the universe) and holy cow... you're the best at what you do.
So again, I've gathered a few questions I wished to ask you about, if it's alright.
What exactly happened after the crash on Dzheeron Dans for it to be so important to Louis and Ezo?
2. Xev being demoted after Tycho died seems a bit too harsh. I suppose something else happened back on the field? Or did he took full responsibility for the whole tripwire thing? And how did their colleagues react? Figes, Rodriguez and so on? Maybe even Sebastian ?
3. Who does the Ground forces usually fight? For example on Germinal?
4. Did you thought of a background for Kirk? Before he met Louis I mean?
5. Is the duel between the Percival brothers still considered canon? I'm having a hard time imagining the context in their respective stories.
6. Do you have any plan on writing down/drawing something for Stardust? From an exterior point of view it's already perfect to imagine the story. A simple summary, a Star Treatment character and a subtle mention of August. I wouldn't mind if it was left in this state to help narrate a bigger story, but I'm curious about your answer.
7. Concerning your stories, there is that one on the Tumblr stories called "The circuit". May I ask what it was exactly ? Some kind of early testing ground?
8. Overall throughout the years, what work are the most happy with? I think you already said to someone you can't choose a favourite piece, but then if it's alright to ask, is there one that was more enjoyable to make, made you progress with your skills, that kind of thing?
Anyway I guess that's it for today's questions, thanks for taking the time to read me and sorry for throwing so many things at you!
Wishing you good health Marshal!
The details have always been there, it just takes a degree of effort to see them when you've familiarized yourself with the lore- which it seems like you to a large extent have! Well done.
Without giving too much away, Louis is Ezo's apprentice for the first couple years that they're running an arms-running/arms-dealing ring through several star systems. Louis gets on board and proposes a couple of high-risk, high-reward heists, which Ezo goes along with, but a couple of them go not-so-well in the course of their partnership. Not all of it is on Louis, as some of those ideas are on Ezo as well. The one that happens before the Dzheeron Dans incident kind of goes uniquely badly, which leads to Ezo's separation from the arms dealing group and the gang's near-dissolution until Louis picks up the pieces kind of and starts from zero with Kirk.
Xever was not demoted because Tycho dies. Xever comes under scrutiny by his superiors because the circumstances of his conduct during the battle are mystifying. Usually an officer falling in the line of duty doesn't mean their immediate superior delegating their command to another office and going out of their way to find said officer, and then being basically unreachable, near catatonic afterward. The higher ups suspected there was something more going on between Tycho and Xever than senior officer-junior officer, which of course it was, and the powers that be launched an investigation. They suspected that Xever might have used his superior rank to advance on a lower rank, which would have been cause for removal, and in the largely conservative ICC Armed Forces, this thing was doubly looked down upon. That said, they found that Xever and Tycho's relationship started long before they were even in the same unit. The crucial testimony for that was Figes, who, wounded and bitter about Xever near-abandoning his post, maintained that the two's relationship existed outside of the bounds of military hierarchy. Xever's handling of command however was still deemed irresponsible. Sebastian, disgusted at his son's "proclivities" yet still obsessed with living vicariously through his children's military careers, throws one last favor in to his friends on the inside, and "saves" Xever's career (arguably way worse for Xever's mental health than just being ejected), and the decision reached by Xever's superiors is a demotion and reassignment to a desk job. Rodriguez is taken off-command after failing post-operation psych-eval, Wynn's busy with his own struggles.
Ground Forces is a tool of the ICC's foreign-policy and internal domestic security agenda. For the most part, they're mainly involved supporting factions in conflicts along the ICC's borders, on the side most favorable to the ICC, with the hopes of folding them into the political-economic union. The Germinal government (or, what's left of it in the face of the planet's rapidly intensifying ecological catastrophe) is favorable to joining the ICC, and insurgent groups on the planet are resisting ICC presence, largely (albeit wrongheadedly) blaming the ICC for the crisis. On Bostubor, the ruling government has basically collapsed, and several factions fight to take control of the planet, with the most well-funded faction clawing to become ICC-adjacent.
Kirk Laklan came from a large family of cats, with at least 12 other siblings between his housecat and lynx parents. Kirk did things by himself as his family was unable to really individually focus or nurture his interests, and his leisure time took the form of wandering the city, making little gadgets and gizmos from pieces he scavenged. He learned a lot of his tricks from Kitaitown and Little Chiapas handymen. Kirk would eventually work a number of odd jobs here and there, several weeks at a time as a sanitation worker, postman, fast food employee, barber, and eventually used parts salesman. It was through this last avenue that Ezo and Kirk met up, which got Kirk involved in the Zander's illicit affairs.
Xever and Louis show down, but it's being reworked :3
Stardust is a liiiittle later down the line. I'd like to finish Supernova, Star Treatment, and key segments of Louis Percivals before I do Stardust, so it's a bit low on the priority rung for me, but as I do more, the concept might just be juicy enough for me to pick up again anyway. I'm infamous for working in things out-of-chronological order anyway! Haha
The Circuit was a veeeery early concept story between me and my partner at the time. I'd like to think I'd still come back to it, because it has a bit of that Manhattan-like urban grunge that I really like, but also more importantly reminds me of a very happy time of my life. In a way though, I feel like coming back to write for that would be difficult, but I like to leave it up on the page because the memories are too good to leave unacknowledged. That said, Conrad the jackal character from that story still pops up every now and then in references, even if he hasn't been drawn in quite a while. He's known for demolishing bowls of ramen.
It's hard to say! I don't think I can answer that, even in the new spins you're proposing haha. I think, at the end of the day, each different story, whether or not it's the scifi Percivals series, the satirical drama In the Red, or even the fan work stuff I've done for the Smoke Room, brings to me a different benefit emotionally, spiritually, and technically. I'll re-phrase your question this way: what work portended a turn in the way I tell stories the most? I think the Percivals as a whole is too big to condense.
Star Treatment was the first story that got me to really sit down and focus on characters over the world at large, and taught me that it's okay to have a more emotionally grounded story than one that professes to explain every nook and cranny first. At the time in my life when I first came up with Star Treatment, I was working on the initial phases of In the Red, which was a much less-refined, much-less focused outline of what it is today. I was very concerned with the technical aspects of worldbuilding, like accounting for how many hectares of arable land were in the Vulpiet Union and the population of districts in the (insert name) Vulpiet Republic, etc. Star Treatment really forced me to question the point of all that if there was no point in the narrative. Was I doing it just to reembellish what I knew based on history? I dunno, I know that aspect is fun to some people, but in many cases since, it strikes me as a little self-congratulatory- and I say that as someone who got pins of my characters made haha. I've spoken to a number of people who ask me to review their worldbuilds and have lore-dumps for every technical question I could ask, but when I ask "what is it saying?" conceptually, or how emotionally resonant can you get from what you have so far, the answers I receive oftentimes clash with the goal of relatability in storytelling. And to bring it back, Star Treatment, while looking back at it in retrospect and realizing a lot of the plot needs to be reworked to have a more cohesive message and better pacing, was the project that got me "off my high horse" so to speak.
I might rephrase your question even more, and turn it into "what has each story/work brough to the table for me?," but that would be a VERY long post, and I'd have to do that another day!
Thank you for your questions, keep em coming! I enjoy answering!
-DWC
Totally not sprite sketches...
Ft. Trey
"Tenacious rascal saved my life back in '08. Least I can do is help him eat."
Art, story by DWC Marshal Arts Ft. Itreyu
Set in the Smoke Room universe, a visual novel by The Goodnight Fellowship.
“Passing ships”
A TSR Animatic by DWC Marshal Arts
Ft. Itreyu
Based on The Smoke Room, a Goodnight Fellowship Visual Novel