yea, MGS is my favourite game series of all time, and it's story has never ceased to amaze me...
sooo..naturally, with MGS4's release nearing I felt like drawing something MGS4 related...
anyways I sketched the black and white drawing at work on my break using my tablet pc and Painter X total time taken was about 1 hour with the tweaking and so on. No ref used for Raiden and Snake because I've seen them in the trailer so many freakin' times...but Otacon required a ref...because nobody cares about the guy that pisses his own pants...
moved to Photoshop did a colour overlay, then opened Illustrator and traced the logo and found a suitable font for "Guns of the Patriot" and "Tactical Espionage Action" also played with the tracking to get the spacing between letters right...
and I think that about covers it for the process...
hopefully this kept faithful to Yoji Shinkawa's style
Thanks to Phoenix for the help in selecting the version you see before you
Now...to play some Mass Effect, which should hold me off till MGS4 comes out...360 exclusive my ass...



the cube is actually skewed a bit so...close enough
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4 years, 11 months ago
with mgs4 preordered since beggining of month, i give you my support. i have the exact same feeling xD
about the wall, if you really done what you say on your descript, you done a awesome job. snake mainly looks ... well like snake, raiden looks less manly on the original tough >:D the coloring, you sure done a good job on it, painter ftw, even tough some people might not like how it looks,however this is how painter works looks
well, fav edit: you forgot the red light on snake optical something i dont remember the name xD
4 years, 11 months ago
This is badass, man. I can't wait till it comes out. The sketchy look almost looks like the artwork in the games. My only gripe would be the text on the bottom. I can't point my finger as to how to fix it, but it's ok. Nice wall! :D
4 years, 11 months ago
Finally ..a MGS wall (9+_+). We seriously need more of these....>.< Overall ..i like the wall. You're drawing skills are tight. Shadign and all looks good too. Don't really like the look on snakes fac tho, he looks al lil 2 high ;p. I still need to play mgs3..so 4 is gonna wait for me ;p
Keep it up.
4 years, 11 months ago
No reference for those two char. D: Really nice, I love the style of painting in this. Just the text behind the characters that irks me a bit, imo it would look better without it. xD Nevertheless, +fav. Hope to see more works from you :D
4 years, 11 months ago
omggg a hihi painting <333 yes i love your painting style... and you always surprice with something different ^^ awasome job... i love the amount of black and white <3, all the traces perfectly placed... the stains.. great composition xD
4 years, 11 months ago
holy pokymans *faints* great wallpaper this black and red just works perfectly in my taste and your painting is top notch
the strokes are really what makes this wall from good to awesome the grunge, splat background compliments the MG like it is badass wall >:]
4 years, 11 months ago
Subtle colors FTW. :P Now to go scream at you.
4 years, 11 months ago
Good job.
It looks very nice. Good job on the quotes too.
4 years, 11 months ago
Advertising much? It's kinda hard to miss the bright red metal gear solid font and title, even on the thumbnail. You should get paid by Konami for this =P
That's some very unique and nicely styled painting you did there. I also like the stylized paint brush splashes, and you did a really nice job painting the characters from scratch. I don't really like the anatomy of Otacon's face, but everything else looks awesome, especially Raiden.
I'm not a fan of the smaller text, but it does fit, and it is your style. Nice work man. +fav
4 years, 11 months ago
Heck, I love those brush strokes more than I love House M.D.! (and that's really something) The wallpaper in general is kickass ♥
4 years, 11 months ago
Everythithing´s been said pretty much, so I´ll just fave it, really a badass wall =)
4 years, 11 months ago
INCREDIBLE!
4 years, 11 months ago
Whoa they look pretty badass (I lost my sight from the series by MGS 2, so dunno about the story.) But your wallpaper is very good done. Black white walls with a single "very noticable" colors are always so cool. Great painting skills of yours. +Fav
4 years, 11 months ago
wow, love the brush stroke, the composition is awesome amazing job
4 years, 11 months ago
like the style of ol' snake
4 years, 11 months ago
Wow, never played around with a tablet before myself but I will after seeing this. It isn't sharp like a vector but I actually like this style, it give the characters more personality and depth. Maybe make the color overlay tones a little more vibrant, make parts of the characters stick out. I'm not a fan of text on walls but you title in red is amazing nice text choice. I would have left out the text blended in with the characters, it doesn't add anything and where is "courage is solid" anyway? Just kidding, nice sketch work.
4 years, 11 months ago
This is some awesome tablet work. Your artistic skills are fabulous and the coloring you did on the entire piece is great! Good work~ .(n_n).
4 years, 11 months ago
First off, it's spelled Heroes not Heros. Secondly, I'm surprised at the feedback because I think this wallpaper looks bad. Now let me qualify myself first, before I start a fanboy flame war. The wallpaper just has too much text stuffed in all the nooks and cranies, and I think this is something that really degrades from the wallpaper's style, because I put a wallpaper on my desktop to look out and not to read, so the fact that there is so much text all over the place makes it seem a little schizophrenic and cluttered. Third, the characters are shaded with two colors: black and white, and while there is nothing against using these too colors, they need to be used in moderation, for an entire wallpaper like this with it just makes the colors mesh into the point where they become incoherent and indistinguishable for me (i.e. where is snake's left side of his face?) Then I remember that this is a tablet sketch, which I give you full credit for, because for what you did it is amazing, but in bringing it over to photoshop and the other tools at your use, you shouldn't be afraid to add some color, especially if a lot of the shading is going to fight with the character outlines for supremacy like with snake's face, which tends to be the focal point, and when the focal point is confusing and displeasing to look at the wallpaper losses credibility. This is also where the words in the background fight with snake because a sketch with a load of words, which inevitably are covered up or at least cut off by his head essentially defeat the purpose of them. The words just take away from the sketch in that the sketch style and then the very acute lettering fight because of their differences like the French and English in the 15th century. So what am I trying to say in conclusion? Well to sum it all up I think the wallpaper is bad. The random blobs of shading which I presume to be blood, meshed with the shading and outlined characters in the two generic colors of black and white where the only diversity is in the tone of the black used make for something that seems like pencil meshed all across my screen in the end, which does not make something enjoyable for me to look at. I'm sure others will disagree and that's fine, but these are my takes on it. I commend you a lot for a great sketch, but the absence of color really defeats it as a wallpaper, because a color-less sketch is fine for something like Deviant Art, but on my desktop I do not particularly take a liking to it.
4 years, 11 months ago
Heroes*.
Good wall though.
Personally think the colors and the text are great.
4 years, 11 months ago
Great as an art piece but not so good as a wallpaper. Some blank space would be nice. Not sure about the typeface on all those 'blurbs' there, I'm not an expert but try something without serifs and see if that works. Nice signature.
4 years, 11 months ago
really cool wall, i like the colors, bright colors and some dark for contrast. good job on it. Kinda agrees with Milly-Bomb that its not so suitable for a wallie in my opinion but very nice.
4 years, 11 months ago
Ha ha ha.three old man.Not handsome,but really man~~~thanks for sharing~~
4 years, 11 months ago
Metal Gear Solid is the greatest thing ever. Love the wallpaper.
4 years, 10 months ago
Amazing. Just this. I really like it, I'm adding it to my favorites instead *___*
4 years, 10 months ago
i think its a really great work i made it my desktop. the art is really cool very well made!
4 years, 9 months ago
Cool pic. Cool drawing
4 years, 8 months ago
really good art piece here. but like milly-bomb say, can use some widening to bring focus to the center.
4 years, 3 months ago
Even though the drawing is a little sketchy. I really like it and like to thank you for giving props to MGS4. This gives MGS4 justice and is a good drawing. It would be interesting what it would look like with color.
3 years, 10 months ago
great hero
3 years, 1 month ago
I actually quite like this, the characters are really well done and the words on the side only add to it and don't get in the way as is the case with many other wallpapers. I won't be using it as a wallpaper since it's just too harsh on the eyes. Still, great work. ;)
1 year, 7 months ago
They look high lol xD Great !!!