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she's just like vamp: trained an ai on the data of woman she loved and put it in charge of nuclear attack (despite of said woman's views), then proceeded to have a child with a man she lowkey bullied and passed her memetic heritage to him. also first tortured the person who was the closest to her beloved and then bonded with him, and made creepy moves on some women under pretext of skincare. also she looks pretty similar to dr strangelove from the movie and is most likely aware of it, as she seems to like movies. but her nickname is strangelove bc she's gay.

METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER (2010)

Strangelove… is that a code name? No, just a nickname.

stealing this to use as a reaction image

this is all i could visualize

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

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did 1 hour line of action today with two friends. not good but whatever, i'm trying to get into doing it daily again

bro's talent is wasted on not being the guy who draws caricatures of people on the streets)00

he asked me if i genuinely find miller mgsv concept art good looking and then proceeded to draw these, exaggerating the shapes more and more. imo this is what a mgs 00s cartoon miller would look like (except the 2nd one, it's just an atrocious abomination lol)

kazuhira miller's fursona is a hammerhead shark imo, isnt he like a business guy? idk i never played the game

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featuring an ugly liner drawing of a kitten

tried to use a liner instead of pencil today. it was fun for short ones but starting with 5 minutes i felt like im wasting time since i couldn't "fix" the lines that were already there and adding new ones would just look dirty, so i returned to pencil. i like the 10 minute drawing more than the 25 minute one but it was enjoyable sketching that guy, his body breaks into nice shapes and his poses entertaining to capture.

yukio mishima: this example illustrates the point that a person can fill his life with pursuit of words or sculpting his body and feel content either way, but a man who chose to rely on the words and disregard the body will eventually find himself helpless and deceived in the face of death

me drowning in a lake while my friend, 11th century french rabbi and prolific scriptural commentator Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a) stands nearby: help im drowing help me rashi

Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a): "drowing" is likely a scribal error for "drowning." "im drow[n]ing" is to say: my lungs have become filled with water, and i am struggling to breathe. "help" once followed by "help me" a second time: the first [help] is directed to the Holy One, blessed be He, and means: "may He help us by swiftly delivering the World to Come;" the second (i.e., "help me") is to invoke direct assistance in this world, spoken as if to a personal friend. the meaning of "rashi" here is unclear.

widen with boobs

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this shirt makes me cry. literally not One of those is a picture of solid snake

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tried to copy kazuhira miller from references to learn to draw him for future shenanigans

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i did line of action yesterday as well but didn't post.

i like the 10 minutes breakdancing guy (even although the shoulder is bad) and especially his pants; i mostly draw naked people bc it lets me see the anatomy better and yesterday while working on a small passion project it became obvious that i don't know what do pants look like lol. so this sketch was also my pants practice, in a way.

the longest sketch isn't much of upgrade from the 10 minute one, but that's ok i guess.

in a yt video there was an advice to do both practice and passion projects. i'd like to redraw one post i've seen here, which requires to practice faces, poses from imagination (or reference) and drawing specific characters. the first character i decided to draw is kazuhira miller from mgsv, and i was anxious bc i care about that character and would like to do him justice and draw him good. i opened a reference - the concept arts (full body and face) and the 3d model - and tried drawing the same things for now. i still have noticeable skill issue just drawing people (and faces especially), so even copying the exact same thing wasn't perfect, but i kinda like how the small doodle of his head (the one in the middle) came out and am posting ot below just as a small celebration. after this exercise i understood that i should as well practice drawing clothes and shoes (and mb guns if i will decide to be thorough). overall it went better than i expected.

i have looked up the tag to see if anyone has already drawn them being friends and/or lovers, thank you for delivering!

various substance doodles

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after a 2 day pause it is slightly worse but still ok. i'm back home and can practice together with my roommate now, it's fun. will probably sketch later in the evening.

i think i cooked with this one

the guy from line of action, ~40 minutes

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it's past 12 AM here so i'm technically late for the daily practice, but i think i cooked with the 25 minute one (which actually took me ~40 minutes) to the point i am going to post it separately.

i tried drawing the 10 minute guy as ellipses and then filling in, it was fun but the result is meh. i am also trying to draw faces when there's enough time. won't post the sheets with all the short ones bc there's nothing interesting there, but i am satisfied with the 5 minute guy bc i drew him fast and had some time for shading and details, and with the 1 minute lady lying on her back doodle.

Or comment the one u wanna get freaky with

i love mgs tier lists

fuck you, houseparty tierlist (im not tagging all of these characters dear god)

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i guess drawing this guy the other day paid off bc this is the best i have managed to make to date. didn't actually take me 25 minutes, i was doing it for ~20 extra minutes bc i liked how it was going so far and wanted to finish. might return to it later and fix it a bit more.

i am satisfied with the 5 minute guy and not satisfied with the 5 minute lady at all, as well as the 10 minute lady except for hair which is my most decent attempt at conveying long hair structure so far.

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today really was one of the days of all times... did 30 minutes instead of usual 60, not saying anything about these

have you noticed how the title of boss in mgs is almost mocking, and those who have it are a tool of some forces they are unable to deny?

the boss has respect and obedience of people around her, such as strangelove and other researchers, snake, the cobras, volgin etc. but she earns it exactly by giving her all to whatever task she's assigned to, which were often harmful to her or suicidal. she clearly doesn't want to kill the sorrow or convince snake she's a traitor, and mb she didn't want to go to space and do other stuff either, but she either was blackmailed into those missions by threatening her child or thought it was her responsibility to tie up loose ends or smth. so, what leads to her being the boss is really extreme obedience, often contrary to her own interests.

when snake is "awarded" the title of big boss, it already looks like mockery as it is: he and you, the player, know there's not much heroism in killing the boss. i haven't played mg, mg2 and mgs4 yet, so this might be canonically disproven, but mgsv seems to me like it takes the extreme obedience even further: some organisation says "we're giving your identity to some other guy" and he's like "ok yay ❤️ 🚬🏍️". it is also notable how in portable ops and peace walker he fights people whose ideas he will directly adopt (nation of mercenaries and metal gear). of course he is the next legendary soldier and his followers respect and obey him, but it seems he earned that by fulfilling some organisation's plan (not in form of direct missions this time) with great skill and dedication. it was interesting to see his path from solo stealth operative to a leader in portable ops, and it does seem like people follow him bc of his field skills (and bc of being put in the brig) than management skills (although he is a charismatic leader).

if you replace "boss" with "tool" or "weapon", it makes just as much sense in terms of passing down the code name. their authority only exists among soldiers and scientists and pows and doesn't exist at all for the people who use them. and it seems that in metal gear when there is a super soldier, the government (or patriots or whoever else) is always training a new one that could kill them if needed. so, both people who get the codename get it after proving they can be made to do anything no matter how much they dislike it, which is ironic.

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i hate drawing that guy. i got 25 minutes for him today and accidentally reset the timer, so i had even more time but still didn't manage to draw him well and started shading after the timer ran out. his photos are always beautiful, it's frustrating to be unable to convey it in the sketch. and this is just some random person, idk how frustrated i will be if i try to draw a character or person i care about, lol - should do it anyway some day tho.

i wanted to do a 1.5 hour class before work, but due to some distractions and resetting the timer i had no time for the last sketch. not really satisfied and wanted to rage quit, took pauses during the last one even. i thought my little public practice diary was too negative due to me bitching so much despite having fun and was going to complain less, but not today it seems :')

idk when i will next have time to do 2 exercises in the same day, but when i do i want to draw some faces, big and small.

frustrating as it was, i am still definitely glad i keep up exercising daily. will see how long i can last

read a few raisune fics and they hit too close to home... also im bored outta my mind at work

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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

today's line of action. got some clothed pics for the long ones for change - glad that i can draw clothes better than before.

i am reaching the point where i get frustrated at being not good enough more than i have fun, but i think i will get through it since i have company and drawabox exercises that aren't portrait drawing.

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more line of action. is it possible to regress in a day? tfw 1 minute doodle looks better than 5 minute doodles.

i am not glad with shading at all, but i somewhat like the longest two sketches. for the 35 minute lady, i drew her pose inaccurately and decided to keep it that way, and had to imagine what her stomach would look like in my pose since it's behind her legs in the original photo. half of the faces are ridiculous but it's progress for me, especially on 25 and 35 minute ones. probably will focus on shading, hair and faces next time.

did you notice that in mgsv miller is talking about ordering the r&d team to develop a burger, yet you can't find it on the research tab or use it? this is a reference to the fact that in peace walker you can't feed miller future curry, well done ration or other food during mission 68, so in return he won't let you have a taste of that burger now.

(source: i made it up)

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my line of action buddy won't join today due to having 13 hour shift at work, so i will do it twice for myself and for him, lol

i like how the dancer came out but don't like the rest. i used to draw the lines and simple shadows in 10 minutes and here i didn't even finish the lines in 25 minutes; not a single line in the longer sketches is confident and uninterrupted lol. anyway, i am glad that i challenged myself to draw a bigger thing and try to convey the pose as accurately as i can. will post more in the evening if i do it and like it.

i also finally started drawabox course and found out i can't draw ellipses lol. it is highly enjoyable though bc there are easily measurable criteria to evaluate myself as opposed to evaluating entire sketch.

just seen this short fanfic (nsfw warning for smut and gore):

it is atrocious in a good way. the smut is horrible (to me at least, im talking circumcision by gunshot and gore, but it's hard to take seriously anyway bc of the spelling and style and how bizarre it is) but necessary to the plot, and the rest is amazing imo. i laughed at it so hard i woke my roommate. because of the spelling and silly stuff first i thought not much thought was put into it, but some bits are either just part of the joke or genuine profound ideas, and it definitely touches on themes of loneliness, unrequited love, homophobia and objectification. and it is concluded with a reminder to treat your lovers as precious persons and not objectify them, and a reassuring verse from the bible (which i find endearing despite not being a christian).

i genuinely recommend reading it, it impressed me enough to publicly post a link to this kind of content on my page lol. i hope it doesn't break any tumblr rules and i won't get banned and/or lynched for reposting content this dubious lmao, i definitely not approve of killing your hookup partners in real life, that is obviously bad and evil