Mgs Brainrot In A Souvenir Shop

an exercise from banana boi's video about stylized faces on yt. i have no idea who jeremy white is but he was the model in the video and now i remember his facial features lol. all the pics except the last one was supposed to be one minute long but i took some extra time bc i am not good at drawing faces yet. almost all of them look wrong tbh but i had fun. started with more cartoonish pics and ended up accidentally making it more realistic but i think it was the right way to do it tbh. the most ugly pic looked bad from the start and i wanted to retry but the video lady said it's ok to draw ugly pics for this exercise so i decided to finish it.

previous time i thought "nice, finally nailing it". think again)0

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.

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.

another big boss apology wall of text under cut

idk i'm pretty sure that being a tool is a major theme in mgs overall. solid snake is created to be a tool and his story is about accepting or fighting it. the boss willingly was a tool, and while naked snake didn't accept being used to create clones or the boss making him kill her, i think he still existed within a social group with those values and it definitely influenced him. i think his refusal to accept the terrible children project and his pw arc where he ends up disapproving the boss, as well as what we see in mgs4, shapes him into the character who begins to question the system if values that deems it ok to treat people as tools, even though he still acts within it and ends up going along with it anyway (note the portable ops ending - idc if it's not canon - and how he ends up doing the same thing using the very same funds even). also i think that he was influenced in that regard by the boss and her words that the worst thing you can do for a comrade is to have personal feelings for them; note how he told amanda she should start treating chico as a soldier rather than as her brother.

i kind of thought he is more distant from his troops bc of seemingly spending time in acc instead of some kind of quarters on the rig, but mb he is more attached to his men than ishmael.

tbh i'm very biased bc if i were venom snake i would consider myself lucky, even though i understand the whole bereft of his own identity thing, and it is easy for me to imagine that despite conflicting feelings he would gladly accept his role. doing an important meaningful thing for the project that is my (and other people's) dream, and also (in a way that matters) becoming the person who i deeply admire and respect and mb even worship? i value my identity but would trade it (not without some sadness but with little to no hesitation) any day; to me the whole venom snake thing seems like a metaphor for a particular masculine dream/fantasy/expected behaviour tbh (not implying that all men want it or that only men can want it or that it's healthy): you discard some parts of yourself in order to shape yourself into a "cool guy" and do an "important meaningful thing"

Venom snake as a character tells a decent bit by proxy about big boss imo. You design him, give him your name, birthday. Venom was a completely different person and character before ttp. Considered one of John's best soilders within this cult of an operation.

Whats his thanks? Your thanks as the player? Becoming him. Memories replaced, face reconstructed, and made to stand in for him so he can achieve his greater plan. Becoming the biggest tool of them all. Being a proxy of him. An extension. An extension to him and his legend. Given a measely thanks over a tape. Then sent to die in his place.

All for some elusive greater good for soilders. A bigger picture you'll never get to see.

That is your reward.

Now some people argue that at the end, venom clearly is on board with it even after finding out the truth, yet I'd argue that even if he is, that's because of the cult like mentality of msf. Like yeah to any soilder on that base essentially becoming big boss and playing a big role in his plan would probably seem like a dream

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 🥴

epic

if i didn't already have my breaking bad meme apron i would consider stealing this idea. pw grilling is one of my favourite little features

text below, tw war

today i joined my friends late (on 5 minute stage) and after they finished did another 1.5 hours by myself (and then spent some more time on the final thing). tried drawing the final guy bigger (since drawing his legs is my best skill so far anyway lol) and focus on the face - and mb for the first time i like how it turned out, everything is more or less where it should be and the drawing even looks like the model! i am glad and post a closer photo of the face alongside the full pic.

almost all the other ones are bad, some that i don't post are even worse than what you see. it's combination of skill issue and being distracted by talking to mom and also explosions. visiting grandma and getting the full odesa experience - while i was drawing these an air raid was going on and apparently some house where people live was hit - i think it was far away from me though bc the sound wasn't loud. will monitor the news tomorrow and donate blood if my blood type is needed - or probably will do it anyway bc just yesterday was another "incident" (as in russian drone) where people got hurt and it's unlikely it will stop soon.