#2. the engraving on the armour obviously isnt from the show. but! rugal makes friends with ziyal and i thought: a. how cool would it be if

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rugal, from una mccormack’s the never ending sacrifice 

based on a 1903 engraving of joan of arc by albert lynch

#trek #star trek ds9 #rugal #rugal pa'dar #my art #ALL ART #probably a bad idea to link to the book on this post but its like... one of three readable trek novels and is SO good and i want people to #know about it!!!! anyway. #artist's comments: 1. the armour is a mix between cardassian armour and the arm plating in the joan of arc image #2. the engraving on the armour obviously isnt from the show. but! rugal makes friends with ziyal and i thought: a. how cool would it be if #rugal had a set of armour from the cardassian army (though of course he was opposed to them) maybe he looted it off someone idk #and b. what if... ziyal (good friend and artist) personalized it for him? gave it the sentimental touch that was so removed from army wear? #3. that's a cardassian rifle! not a phase pistol. i needed him to be holding something significantly larger to fill the space of a sword so. #anyway the design of that is pretty close to how it appears in canon which is fun (excruciating) #4. the background is supposed to be cardassia after the dominion war. white flag isn't the cardassian flag (it helps that theres not a canon #design for the cardassian flag) but i figured a white flag = cardassia surrendering (not to the dominion but surrendering its old ways of #militancy and violence yada yada yada #what else. oh this was originally supposed to be garak but i made a sketch and then went 'that's not garak' #so by the time i'd started the final version i had a whole new plan about rugal re: cardassia/armour/legacy/whatever #also. from an Art Perspective i dont think this piece is particularly well balanced. i think his pants probably should be darker if i wanted #it to look better but ive been working on this for three days and its two times the size of the things ive been drawing lately #and .. my hand hurts. so. this is it!!!! #also. i did all this bc i got the sm*ths line 'and now i know how joan of arc felt. now i know how joan of arc felt!!!!' stuck in my head #and i didnt even use that in the caption bc i dont want people to know i listen to them #A L L A R T