Sketch From A Pic I've Been Sent On Tumblr, Waow

how to post a sketch:

1. draw it

2. take a picture

3. compare to the reference

4. find gajillion mistakes

5. try to fix it

6. unless too fed up with it, return to step 2

7. try to fix it with some details you don't really see on the reference but that would convey the thing

8. take a picture

9. congrats on noticing some parts are weird, fix it and return to step 8 unless it's no fun anymore

10. now you're less satisfied with it than you were before taking the first picture, but it looks a lot better

11. the picture angle is wrong btw or it's blurry, retake (:

12. gl cropping it lol

13. post it

14. fix some stuff, take another pic and edit your post

15. 2 minutes of high excitement

16. stop thinking about it forever

i feel vain doing all that just to post my doodles but it is worth it bc i'm glad i like them and would like to post good clean photos. also it's fun to compare the first and the last version

tonight on things that never happened, or op's undisguised fetish

wanted to draw something different but noticed a similar pose while looking for references and thought it'd be funny to draw them like this. while drawing, i noticed that snake's face is right on the belt buckle but didn't want to change the pose and thought he might've disregarded such minor discomfort (if we ignore the possibly ooc nature of the pose in general) and wake up with a belt buckle print on his face.

why are they sleeping fully clothed? bc i have a thing for decency (tm). why is the book facing that way? so i could draw the cover ofc - if you recognise it, good job. also wanted to draw some funny camo, but most of them are funny due to color, so i went for the t-shirt that can be found in the target practice mission. snake's butt is that way bc it's funny to me.

i will bring all the rodents of afghanistan to the mother base. imagining pequod having to catch that little fella on a small balloon and give him a gajillion km ride. it's a shame they are supposed to go into the zoo platform instead of running all over the place.

translation in alt

me when i die in a rocket raid but the rockets were launched from a place called "miller's", or smth. just like in my japanese videogames 🥴

it sure was venom snake in the operation intrude n313 bc the man could run. i think he's at least as fast as the running man from mg2, who claims to be the fastest mercenary in the world

my first digital line of action. messy but it's a start!

i stopped at 10 minutes bc i wasn't having much fun, having no idea how to shade and the lines being very messy and crooked. i think i should do a bunch of quick ones to learn to draw smooth intentional lines

the last pic is the first i drew. i tried drawing in digital a year ago or so, but idk where those files are, might've deleted them, don't even remember what it was

miller study based on pw reference. the first attempt was atrocious, then i traced it from the reference and tried to replicate the proportions twice more. still not satisfied but getting there. at least the traced one looks nice

looking at yesterday's drawings after getting some sleep. hilarious (good)

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.