The Boss Herself Craved "to Make The World One Again" Which Is Not Necessarily Peace Tbh, Since The "being

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i should do a challenge "draw every time you hear an explosion or anti air defense sounds" while i'm here, lol. wanted to stay at a friend's place overnight but returned home before curfew to do line of action (bc i would have just chatted with him the whole time otherwise), an hour later there was an explosion not far from him. could've witness the action from the front row if i stayed, but parents would know where i am and would worry and it's nothing i haven't seen before anyway, so no regrets. i write stuff like "lol" or "action" but just to be clear - it is not fun and people get hurt and die and lose their possessions such as home, don't be a war victim if you can and definitely don't go and be an occupant in foreign country, you are not welcome and no possible repercussions for draft evasion or defecting are a valid reason to do that.

anyway, noticed that i gave the guy few extra ribs only on shading stage when there were 4 minutes left, decided to not fix it. both proportions and shadings are a bit off today, i should pay more attention next time, but it seems the faces are improving. i try to make sure i draw the face during figure drawing if there's enough time. the last pic is faces only study i did yesterday after figure drawing - most of them are very bad but i liked 3 of them.

i will try to ask my friend to pose for me. tried that with another friend a while ago and the results are nothing to share; i hope now my skill is good enough.

forgot to post this one. i was really proud if the pull up man (still looks good to me), and the rest i think i did during english class (i couldn't possibly read the hiragana now, lol, completely forgotten)

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morning line of action. focused on shadows today: looked at the whole photo and thoughts which parts are the darkest, the lightest, a bit dark etc, picked a part (all the darkest areas, for example), drew a light line to mark the edges of that area and filled it in with respective value. i should think of a better way that allows more than 3 values and smoother transitions between shadow and light, but for now i like how it came out compared to yesterday. focused on faces too; it only goes for longer sketches but i resisted the temptation to leave the face blank or draw a -_- like thingy; i disliked what i was seeing while drawing them but now i think it's not horrible. i should do faces practice later to improve.

noticed that for some reason it takes me longer to draw feminine looking models than masculine looking ones. 5 minutes was enough to draw and shade the curvy guy, draw his face in a simplified way and his genitals (something i do rarely), and for the next 5 minute sketch of a lady i didn't even get to her head before time ran out. 10 minute lady's boobies are unshaded bc i ran out of time too. i wonder why is that; the answer might be bc i get lots of pictures of that particular guy for some reason and mb i learnt to draw him faster, but who knows. i wanted to shade the orb on the 25 minute one, but ran out of time exactly as soon as i was finished with the man. look at that orb tho, guess who is failing hard at drawabox ellipse tasks lol

it's the second time i do line of action in the morning instead of evening and both times i am satisfied more than on average; mb will make it a part of my morning routine (which is currently washing face, brushing teeth, mb shower and breakfast lol)

seeing other people in tumblr do same exercises daily makes me want to practice every day too

it's cool that now no image is needed, everyone knows what it's going to be. nice

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OH MY GOD HI. BIG FAN

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tried to draw more women, as previously planned. i specifically focused on not drawing tiny feet again and did it anyway :')

still learning to draw faces with acceptable accuracy. not much progress today, some just look bad and others don't resemble the model, but i kind of like how i did the 35 minute lady face.

shorter ones:

thought this exercise is just going to be atrocious but i kinda like the top one (10 minutes)

sometimes it do be like that (worse than before) but we keep going. i kinda disliked drawing that guy bc his photographer uses settings that distort proportions (like fisheye or the opposite) so his limbs look bizarrely huge and disproportionate. but today i enjoyed the cartoonish look.

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

a bit of line of action on the train. i picked 30 minutes but don't have time to finish it before arrival anyway, so the longest one is 6 minutes. l like drawing this smiling lady ever since i started doing this exercise, it brings me joy to be able to convey more and more of the beauty of her curvy body and sparkling smile as my skill develops.

raiden was annoying to me in mgs2 bc he is like subversion of player's expectation set by snake: bitching about difficulties from the very start, initially refusing to do stuff he wasn't trained to (deactivate bombs), has emotional conversations with his gf about their relationship etc. none of which is bad tbh but it is the opposite of what i expected after mgs1. but that's why he's a fun protagonist, teasing the player a bit. i am glad he's still annoying in rising (like bothering kevin with unsolicited marriage talk, the courtney codec calls if you don't save etc) and lowkey evokes cringe reaction from the voice he definitely does on purpose, the whole the "i get off to shredding dudes" ripper thing. they really integrated devs trying to make him more appealing to audience into his character development. but tbh to me, mgrr raiden is more cringe than mgs2 raiden (and that's a big part why rising is fun). in mgs4 there are fun moments which are definitely meta jokes (like the timing of the raiden in hospital scene, i am sure it was set up for player to expect seeing snake, or the voice) but it's serious so there's less room for fun. it's a shame tho that the devs seem to shy away from the mgs2 raiden, should've embraced him more and admit that players who hate on him just don't get it or aren't into it, he already was a well designed character.

and rosemary hate is wild, ofc it's bad to violate people's trust and their relationship is edgy and creepy but by mgs standards it's pretty wholesome and full of hope (except for raiden hitting her). idk what do they mean by ruining raiden's life, he literally brags about how much he loves his family in rising

i will say tho adding onto the post i reblogged before last like. raiden was also generally not well received on the launch of 2 for like multiple reasons but i imagine being annoying was one of them and i think its really only because of rising a good portion of people like him. yknow after they made him a cool robot with that deeper voice and other shit i havent played rising. rose still gets treated infinitely worst by fans tho for shit she didnt do