Could You Draw Venom Snake Or Naked Snake With Rodents? I Like How Rodents Are A Recurring Theme In Mgs:

00's kazuhira miller in a baseball cap disguise as mentioned in "like one of his animes" on ao3 (sorry bro if you're reading this, it's otasune porn; to anyone else - feel free to look it up).

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

he just like me after work... the big boob

Every few years remember about the Metal Gear franchise, go through the games, read the lore again. This year I found the MGS1 artbook I got when I was 11, and now not being 11 and looking back through it I’ve really gone on a journey of wonderment and confusion looking at the early versions of everything. LET ME SHOW YOU HOW:

Extreme Fishin’ Miller

Casual Snake

Rad Liquid & Sad Liquid

Good ol’ Faceless Frank

Mantis concepts feat. such strong looks as ‘lunchbreak’, ‘invisible handcuffs’, and ‘dick sounds’.

Otacon and Otacon run through a tiny face filter.

/These/

Snake-Meryl (Sneryl) and Flamethrower Mei Ling who I am ASHAMED do not exist

Utterly terrifying Veiny Raven and less terrifying Mange Raven

And of course, Punk Rock Mantis.

3 hours after i posted this i have encountered a cute lady that required my assistance in my office building!

it's not the next year yet and it wasn't that kind of assistance ofc but still nice! new year magic or smth ✨

seen a post about "yule boasting" - a tradition of publicly making "new year's resolutions" of unrealistic nature that will not be accomplished. fast google search did provide some mentions of a boasting tradition as a part of yule celebration but not enough details for me to consider the post accurate. however, i like the idea and if the yule boasting tradition didn't exist in that particular form before, now it does bc i am going to partake - feel free to join!

so, the deeds i will accomplish in 2025:

- draw the boss from metal gear smiling with joy and tenderness, a picture so good that the indomitable will itself will descend onto me and possess me, and a glimmer of it will be visible to anyone who lay eyes on the drawing

- sing 100 songs, quiet and loud, in privacy and in company of other people, friends and strangers

- please 100 ladies in sexual way, or please a lesser amount of ladies 100 times in total

- slay a number of foes in real life and thus prove myself worthy and earn the right to marry the old fashioned way

- feast on 100 meals (vegan)

- observe 100 wild beasts, big and small

- lift 100 stones (mostly small)

- read 10 good books (not 100, not that unrealistic lol)

- love 100 people: strangers, project partners, friends, romantic partners, family and foes

- find a decent and bearable reason to live that doesn't make me frustrated lol

feel free to post your own yule boasting, while arguably useless it is fun and sincere!

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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

another attempt

line of action warmup below

Honestly the funniest part of Conclave was every character whipping out their reading glasses whenever they needed to look at something because they're all old as fuck and can't see.

trying to learn to draw miller from mgsv and pw concept arts. i figured that the game model looks kinda goofy no matter how much i turn the quality up, and most fan arts i like are an interpretation of miller rather than a close copy, hence the 2nd pic. it was fun to draw but i will need to learn a lot for it to look decent, lol. anyway i decided to post my drawings here no matter how much or little i like them, so here it is

i think i cooked with this one

the guy from line of action, ~40 minutes