I Need To Draw I Need To Draw I NEED TO DRAWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

finally a free day, i should draw some but am tempted to play video games or just laze around, a hard choice...

that one guy (apparently) on tumblr asking me to draw his wife once every few months: dw i got your back :)

mgs women...

there is a fan made christmas metal gear game and you should try it!

i was looking for christmas cards from metal gear social and instead found the fan made game merry gear solid: secret santa. it is available for free and only takes ~15 minutes to complete, has cool voice acting, funny codec calls, simple controls (arrows, shift, control and mouse) and few fun mechanics like candy cane instead of cigs, gift box (full of bombs!) and a (non digital) camera that is like stun grenade x claymore x c4. in this game, you are playing as santa claus (code name solid santa) and due to tightened security have to infiltrate the house to deliver presents instead of the traditional way. of course, a plot twist awaits at the end, and an even bigger one in the after credits call!

please give it a try, download available at http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/?page_id=297 . you can also look up walkthrough on youtube but why rid yourself of the experience of playing it yourself? i have read the plot summary before playing it and spoiled everything but still had a lot of fun, and hope that you will too!

there is a sequel that i want to play as well!

me when the game has a protagonist that is balanced between a well designed character and a proxy for the player to project onto, and said protagonist is stripped of their humanity to fit a cool (preferably war related) role

#1 gray fox fan is nice, he might be the #1 fan of solid snake but i'm the #1 fan of his own

stupid fucking metal gear stamps.

made by me

they wouldn't leave that man alone about his characters' smoking habits and that's why we ended up with Venom fucking vaping

old sketch. Quiet 😁😁😁😁👍👍👍

(i own nothing, tsurumi is stolen from the manga and slightly altered, poppy flowers are stolen from the internet)

the boss herself craved "to make the world one again" which is not necessarily peace tbh, since the "being one" earlier in question is an alliance towards common enemy and she didn't shy away from nuking a place. but i agree that he's confused, trying to figure out stuff at least, ending up sometimes doing the thing his rivals did (you might be amused by portable ops antagonist if you play it).

i like that many things don't happen suddenly in metal gear games plot and am inclined to think there was no vital turning point for big boss and he was moving towards what he became steadily since mgs3. another thing i like about mgs is how war inevitably changes characters for worse (some disagree tho) - snake went from being a cheerful mischievous fella to a bit grumpy but still discussing che guevara with miller and calling support while wearing silly camo on missions, to the point when a smile looks unnatural and even uncanny on him. but there's no distinct event that caused that - it's a consequence of his war lifestyle which guarantees him one harsh event/decision after another, wearing him out and numbing his cheerful nature, despite that nature being probably the thing that set him on the path of becoming big boss in the first place. and miller going from a success culture, charming playful slut to the angry guy wearing gajillion clothing layers and refusing prosthetics and ability to return to field work, to hopefully a still angry but somewhat independent and happily (in my dreams lol) married with a kid guy, to divorced and assassinated without a chance to even see the man behind it bc he would be lucky to end up dying some other way. huey from being pushed around and having no self respect to learning to stand up for himself, calling out diamond dogs on treating things differently than they might be, but then killing himself anyway due to child abuse in his family or his wife "cheating" on him or news about death of big boss (i don't believe it's a coincidence). anyway i have only experienced war as a civilian and far from front lines but exaggerated individual glory and mystic/sci-fi stuff aside, i think big boss is pretty normal given his assumed initial views and the experience he'd been through that formed him further.

tbh no one in mgs is morally ok and i think one doesn't get to be a warlord and also ethically good and kind, but i wouldn't be surprised if the canon implied reason for big boss being vilified that much in mgs world mass culture is cia backed to justify destroying the only nuclear power left or smth and is not a direct consequence of his wrongdoings. in mg2 his former enemies tell solid snake that big boss is a good man, which can be just the cult stuff ofc but could as well be their genuine informed opinion.

p.s. also i doubt venom snake would be a great dad tbh, he looked at a child soldier and called him a natural lol

Venom's arc explained in a picture from the player's perspective

Playing MGSV:TPP you have 2 choices:

You can be good or bad. You can kill, destroy, use and do everything in your power to be the worst person alive. You can be kind, you can save animals, kids, soldiers, grow a family and be a respectable man.

There's actually no choice. There's no two-tracks. The ending is the same. History will see you as a villain. You are a villain. You are, currently, the perfect depiction of the most wanted and most evil man alive, according to the world.

You have no lever. You cannot stop this from happening. Either close your eyes or watch, the ending will be the same. Your life will end in misery. The only relief? Boss will pat your shoulder and let you die with a false sense of accomplishment. Congrats. That's the panthom pain everybody talks about.

more (and worse) below

my friend persuaded me to use a liner instead of pencil this time. it sucked lol, i did everything wrong: starting from bad lines and ending by worrying too much about the lines and no possibility to use eraser i forgot about the line of action and messed up the proportions big time. for the last one he proposed using pen so it would be a bit easier than liner. it was a bit easier and actually enjoyable. i messed up the buttock shading and tried again, but messed up face this time (as well as the shape in general) so after the timer reached the limit i drew shades on her and sent her to a tropical resort just to have a bit fun. i also tried a new way of shading in the liner sketches, doesn't look good yet but i will try more.

i started this little sketch/practice diary with intention to post no matter how bad the pic is, so this is the reason im posting it.