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Well, it's back! My art and writing that is. So much has been done these past few months. The Revelation is up to 25 chapters, and plot is starting to really thicken. Many of my old art works have been heavily tweaked, and a few new ones have been added. Let's take a look at a few!


Enjoy! I'll post links to new chapters and artwork as I make them!

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 05 December 2012 - 02:31 AM

Hey, good to have ya back!

The Revelation Chapter XXVI is out, but for those of you who haven't been reading, you should probably start from the beginning.

Also, more edited pics!

Two more pics!

Contains images some may (hopefully) find disturbing, so open at your own risk.




Edit: Also, touched up Pepper from Deathscape:

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 23 September 2012 - 06:07 PM

Just something interesting I did for fun this evening. Check it out and let me know what you think!

That's pretty cool, I didn't expect it to rhyme from the format, until I started reading it and it seemed almost like a song. You should record a reading of it.

It'd be pretty cool.

Sure! I'll do that next month after I get my new microphone.

Bayer Tactical M47 "Super Carbine." A 6.8mm Assault Rifle that will appear in The Revelation. Based on a hybrid of the Barrett Rec7 PDW and HK 416C assault rifles, with some unique features added.

Do you design these guns yourself? Because they're hard little suckers!

For the most part, yeah! They're all based partly on real guns though.

Chapter XXVII is out. It's pretty short, but VERY important. If you're one of the 4 people who are reading The Revelation, you can't miss this chapter.

Colored version of the M47. I'll try to shade it tomorrow.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 10 October 2012 - 07:23 PM

"The Signs of the Three." The symbols associated with the three most powerful deities in the Deathscape mythos--the Arkae'is Amulet, Fear's Crucifix and Night Seal. While both the Arkae'is Amulet and Night Seal are protective symbols, the Fear's Crucifix is dangerous and wearing it unopposed is not advisable.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 11 October 2012 - 09:21 PM

Chapter XXVIII is out.

Edit: And it's revised. It still ends the same, but getting there is a little different.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 16 October 2012 - 09:14 PM

Chapter XXIX of The Revelation is now out. I've also revised Chapter XXVIII again to deal with a potential plot hole.

My God it's been a horrible year, and those few of you who are following me on DA can probably pick out why. But I had another recent bout of bad luck, and it's the kind that keeps on giving: my cat Ash has been bitten by a venomous spider, and it has led to his face being infected.

I have no idea how much treating him will cost; all I know is that I do not have the money to do it now. On the first of December, I will be able to scrounge up 220 dollars, but that may not be enough. To try and prepare for this and get the bill paid off sooner, I will be doing writing commissions as well as original weapon designs.

Small Weapon Artwork
Sample:

354 x 200 pixels
Can be handgun, knife or sword design
Must be original, but real weapons are allowed as inspiration
Will be drawn and colored in GIMP
Your choice of .PNG or .JPEG format
2.00 dollars USD

Large Weapon Artwork
Sample:

About 660 x 200 pixels
Can be Rifle, shotgun or sword design
Must be original, but real weapons are allowed as inspiration
Will be drawn and colored in GIMP
Your choice of .PNG or .JPEG format
3 Dollars USD

Short Writing Project
Sample
200 - 400 words
Rhyming format, no meter
NO PORN
No Deathscape or Fallen characters allowed
Your choice of .ODT and .DOC file format
2 dollars USD

Long Writing Project
Sample
About 1000 - 2000 words
I prefer horror themed as it's my niche, but BCB fanfic also allowed
No OC's allowed; original monsters are allowed
Cannot include Deathscape/Fallen characters
Fanfic allowed
NO PORN
5 Dollars USD

Contact me through PM if you're interested. I'll only ask for payment upon delivery. If you're not interested in any of this but still want to help, contact me and we'll work something out. Please note that I will not do porn, period.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 15 November 2012 - 07:21 PM

Xenotherus, a disgusting creature seen in an earlier chapter of The Revelation. Killed by Pepper, this abomination lays parasitic eggs with its tongue that infect a host and drain its life energy. These parasites cannot survive if Xenotherus is killed and do not mature. Its leathery, almost scaly skin is very tough making it a very difficult monster to kill.



Edit: Now with Texture!

Edit 2: Commissions are closed. Ash got a lot better before I was even able to raise a dime, so all's good.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 15 November 2012 - 07:21 PM

Remake of Haymaker.


Note that The Revelation is still on Hiatus, but I'm hoping it will return in January.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 01 December 2012 - 07:36 PM

Still wasn't happy with Haymaker, so I went for a complete redraw.



I don't know. I think I like it better now.

Edit: Thought I'd give some info. The stock is a recoil reducing stock--it basically halves felt recoil. Considering this is a gas operated gun (which reduce felt recoil simply by cycling the round), this causes the gun to be very light and controllable. In the past, my models have had ghost ring sights, but I traded them out for more accurate rifle sights. The coloring isn't done, but it's intended to invoke the feel of a nickel plated gun--because the Haymaker is, in fact, nickel plated to protect the metal. Underneath that nickel coat is stainless steel, which makes this gun extremely reliable in saltwater environments and damn pretty to look at.

In the past, Haymaker was firing Buckshot. The mechanisms behind how it worked changed dramatically since the original novel. An important thing to remember is most buckshot rounds have about a 1 inch spread per yard, and the fewer pellets in 00 and 000 mean a tighter spread. This effectively makes the spread a mere 20 inches at 20 yards--far far tighter than what you are used to seeing in movies. This doesn't change much on a shotgun by shortening the barrel, but doing that WILL reduce the round's velocity and range. This is different with guns that have very short (10 inches or less) barrels, but you can neither make nor buy those guns without a BAFTA license.

Of course, I didn't want Haymaker to be a normal gun or a short barreled shotgun (White Wolf fills that role), so it now uses a fictional variant of Dixie's Tri-Ball load instead of buckshot. The Current Tri-Ball Load fires 3 .60 caliber pellets (at 315 grains each) at 1050 feet per second (for the 3" variant anyway). Haymaker uses a round based off the older variant, firing 3 270 grain .57 caliber pellets. Because there are far fewer pellets, the spread is insanely tight, only being 6 - 12 inches as forty yards. Such a gun is not made for combat, since the point of a shotgun in such a role is to have a decent spread and raise the possibility of hitting the target at a distance. Nor is the round suitable for home defense, as the heavy large-bore pellets will go through drywall like it's paper. This is a round made for wilderness defense and hunting dangerous game like bears and hogs. Of course, this makes it very suitable for the creatures seen in The Revelation.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 05 December 2012 - 06:04 PM

Although I'm not officially off Hiatus, The Revelation XXX is out. I have also heavily edited Lynx Diago's pic, as seen below.




Just to point out, the Hiatus may go on indefinitely. If I'm up to it and able to, I will post a pic or chapter here or there, but there will be no weekly releases. See, I'm in kind of a bad place right now, and for the most part tweaking existing pics is about as much creativity as you're gonna get out of me.

Back on July 6 my grandfather--the man who helped raise me--suffer a massive stroke that left him unable to move or talk. He had a feeding tube put it. Unfortunately, complications arose and on July 16 he passed away. My aunt penny, who lives a 20 minute walk from me, couldn't once find the time to take me to see him. I got to say goodbye over the phone, but that's just not the same. Since then my illness has been acting up. I'm having a lot of issues with mania, which is wreaking havoc on my sleep schedule. And now, for the past two weeks my mom has been very sick with the flu. So until my situation improves, I'm on hiatus, but if I improve enough to draw or do some writing I will. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this week's chapter, and I hope you like the alterations I made to the Lynx Diago pic.

Man I gotta go back and read your stuff again, plus the new stuff. I remember it being pretty good when I read it ages back.

The Revelation: Chapter 31 is up. I'm still trying to get back in the swing of things, and other events going on these past two months aren't making it easy. So again, I'm still officially on hiatus, but that won't stop me from updating when I can.

EDIT: Didn't like the flow, so I combined Chapters 30 and 31 into one chapter. A lot of dialogue was eliminated from Chapter 30, and some of the prose was altered in both "chapters." The revised chapter can be found here for those who care to read it.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 09 January 2013 - 05:05 PM

A few late (in one case, very late) updates.

First off, my second redesign of my "Kelpie" concept:



A kelpie is a horselike creature that tricks passerby into riding it. Its moist, rubbery-smooth skin secrets a powerful adhesive, and once you are stuck you cannot get off. At that point, it runs into the nearest river and drowns you before eating your entire body except the heart and liver. Due to its horrifying appearance, it must rely on tricks of lighting and mental manipulation to get its victim to come close at attempt to ride it.

Next, an opportunity pic from way back on Election Day. We had forgotten to throw our pumpkin away, and when we came out that day we were greeted to this.



It was so goofy we had to take a picture of it.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 10 January 2013 - 02:20 PM

Wait, did you leave a whole pumpkin out and somebody carved it? Or did you leave your carved Halloween pumpkin out and somebody put a cigarette on its mouth?

No, I carved it. I lust left it out and somebody put a cigarette in its mouth.

Brain's fried thanks to this wonderful month, but I managed to get out a short writing thing. It's hard to classify and very personal, but since it was written to share, I placed it here.

Managed to do a quick drawing. Once again I overdid the pencil hardness and erasing, but I still like how it turned out. It should look awesome when I eventually get around to inking and coloring it. For those wondering, it's a redesign of Dheania, the main antagonist of The Revelation.

It reminded me of the NCR flag.

This post has been edited by Migrant: 06 February 2013 - 10:39 AM

"Finished" Dheania.



Reintroduced the messy hair, and played around with coloring. It just looks better that way.

Edit: Touched up the shading, and changed the cheek-fur's lineart to match the rest of the work.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 17 February 2013 - 03:33 PM

Old Saskeatian--the universal written language of the characters in Fallen/Paradigm Slide. This chart is an updated and cleaned version of a very early work, which was taken down over a year ago while I was revising the design.

Despite being universal, a number of characters present in Old Saskeatian are only used in the West Saskeatian spoken language. In addition, some characters are pronounced differently among the different spoken languages. West Saskeatian in particular is known for its heavy borrowing of words from various "recovered languages," which are so old that these unique characters were created to fill the gaps needed. Despite this, the various languages are more or less intelligible, although those who do not speak West Saskeatian have some difficulty understanding those that do.

Remember that old commissions thing I was going to do that fell through? Well, it's active again thanks to a recent turn of events that have forced me to seek emergency treatment for poor old Ash.

In the past few days, he's stopped eating and is now having trouble walking. He has dropped a lot of weight. A lot--he's basically skin and bones right now. The sooner I can get him in to see a vet, the better, but unfortunately I don't have much money and won't get paid until the first. I've contacted Great Plains SPCA in an attempt to get him help and a ride to get him there, but I don't know how much I'll be paying at this point. They do have payment options, but they can't give me any until they have a formal diagnosis.

Basically, this is what I'll be doing:

Pencil sketch, scanned into a computer and inked, of your choice. If I don't think I can do the work, I'll let you know when you request it. These are 5 dollars, 15 if you want colored.

Original Flash Fiction for 2 dollars. Poetry, a la The Wasteland, same price. Any subject except porn or otherwise sexually explicit fiction.

Short story (5,000 words) for 5 dollars. Same rules as above.

So my cat didn't make it. We had an appointment set up on the 25 to have him euthanized, but he died last night while I was sleeping.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 25 February 2013 - 11:22 AM

I'm sorry for your cat Carcharocles.

Sorry about your loss losing pets is horrible, all the best

Thanks, guys.

Soory to here about your cat carcharocles.

I'm sorry Car.

Thanks again, guys.
I wrote a biography of Ash's life. It's probably not very interesting, but I kind of needed to do it for grieving reasons. It's not really personal, so feel free to read it if you want to.

So I managed to get Chapter XXXI finished. Yay. Started working on this one before Ash got ill, but finally felt up to finishing it today. I'm not sure how good it is, but when I'm more level-headed I'll be rewriting my more recent chapters anyway. And no, Hiatus isn't over, this is just a brief return to updates.

Redrew parts of Dheania to make her more obese and lion-like. Previously her legs were too long. They still kind of are, but this version is more along the lines of what I think she should be: both horribly bloated and frighteningly agile. Also increased her size and raised the image resolution.

A modified Sig Sauer P226R chambered in .40 S&W. It will appear in The Revelation later on, but for now I'm keeping the details a secret. Note that this gun is not one of the ones Simon Carlton brought with him.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 20 March 2013 - 11:50 PM

Quick drawing I did regarding the harrow Vespis, which may or may not appear in The Revelation.

It uses its long, flexible stinger as an ovidepositor, planting eggs inside a still living host. The eggs, which are sterile, act as a poison and immunosuppressant, causing a slow and agonizing death.

Hark, a Chapter. Chapter Thirty-Two of The Revelation to be exact.

Chapter XXIII is out. Still not ready to officially end the hiatus, but it appears my creative streak is returning.

I forgot all about you and your crazy stuff there Carchar. Maybe I'll finally get into reading it indepth.

Updated the Crimson Hawk to appear more like an M1911. I used the Nighthawk Custom 10mm Longslide as a reference.



It's funny how this gun started as a Tanfoglio T95 (read: CZ75 clone) and has evolved into a completely different firearm.


Speaking of updates, I've taken The Revelation chapters XXII - XXXIII offline for a while. I intend to flesh out the pacing there, which has suffered since my grandfather died. Expect new chapters in between and massive rewrites when they come back up.


Edit: added porting to the Crimson Hawk.
Edit II: fixed the grip.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: Yesterday, 09:44 PM