Experimenting with different filters on some clumsy Canva I just did to illustrate what Palpatine is going for in the next chapter. I think I like the first one best. Everything on the wall glows.
On other fronts, I just commissioned some new artwork by some real artists for the fic I’m writing now, called Murder by Murder. (To be found here.) Sidious is trying to pack the Trade Federation Directorate a little more subtly than the horrific massacre in Cloak of Deception. It has Darth Maul working undercover and observing a bar fight, and Senator Palpatine being nominated for a Galactic Peace Prize for pioneering new antislavery legislation for the Republic (here) … right before he goes off to help Maul assassinate someone in order to start a Separatist war.
The artwork will be Maul at the bar and Senator Palpatine and his political consultant/campaign manager in dress for the awards banquet.
We’ll see how it comes out. So far I like the line drawings.