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Have you played through Metal Gear Solid 4? If not, I recommend doing it now. It's a painful endurance, but worth it.
For those who have completed it, you will know why I did this. I'm trying my best not to spoil anything here, but... (the picture doesn't help) As much as I want to talk about it, I'll keep my thoughts about it all to myself.
For this MGS piece, I chose to keep it quite rough for two reasons.
Firstly, I didn't want to smooth out the skin too much, as it suited being rough. Second... it takes half the time! There isn't exactly loads of thought behind this other than "I wanted to draw Big Boss", so simple was fine by me.
I was also going to colour it, but wasn't exactly sure what to do, so I went into greyscale and thought it worked rather well. It's nothing special, but fun to draw.
I'm not overly happy about the gun in the foreground, it doesn't really stand out as much as I'd want it to, and kind of hard to tell what it is unless you've played lots of first person shooters! But I felt it necessary, just to represent something from MGS4...
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I was on the brink of getting the mgs4 bundle but i ran out of funds before even getting close to it.. luckily a friend's going to lend me his ps3 + mgs4 so I'll get to play through it anyway
It sure looks stylish : ) I like how it looks like the concept art of both snake and liquid from solid1. Which makes much sense them being what they are..
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Oooh, interesting you say that. Enjoy playing through MGS4 is all I'm going to say!
Oh, and seriously take its advice when it tells you to take a break... When a cut scene comes up they can sometimes be well over an hour long...
I'm glad you like this piece anyway, it was just a quick picture... which I wish I do more of!
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Mm art's going slow for me these days aswell.
How's life?
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Life is busy.. and odd... nothing new though! How's things in Sweden?
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's going well here. I think we're in the midst of changing seasons.. so the weather's going nuts. 
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So what's that exactly? Like a technical job with computers, or something completely different? Sounds cool anyway
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well here it's basicly tech maintenance through computers i suppose.. They had an active blueprint-esque maintenance computer program at the paper factory I worked this summer where they could keep track of the process and make some tweaks if needed to either make it more efficient or to prevent disaster. But the job differs depending on where and what kind of industry you work at. Good pay tho ^^
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Good pay isn't everything though! I'm going to be leaving a well-ish paid job soon to go to something that will keep me happy!
But fi you're enjoying it, or at least finding it a challenge, then that's all good
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I know it isn't ^^ but it's atleast something I could see myself doing for quite a while should everything else fail
I might get such an opportunity aswell later on, who knows ^w^
Atleast this won't be something I'll hate doing to begin with and through the whole thing
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Wow, this is great.
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Yeah, definitely... that entire scene was so touching and well-written. I can totally understand all the comments on the YouTube video of it that went something along the lines of "This made me cry manly tears!"
"It's over. Time for you to put aside the gun, and live." - Big Boss
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This is a great picture. I saw it and I knew what it was. It fits the mood of the Metal Gear games so well. Big Boss looked so sad and tired and I don't blame him.
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I blame that megalomaniac.
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Yeah, you can't help but love him. He'd clearly had enough! But he's also 20% more bad ass than Snake ever could be
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I guess that is true. Snake and his father were both great warriors, but... to a big degree Snake hasn't seen anything close to what Big Boss went through. (At the very least, he's certainly never commanded entire armies!)
"That's right. Good! No need for you to go just yet. It's been a long time... Snake."
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in act 4 did it bring a tear to your eye when you heard "the best is yet to come" whilst walking down the hill looking at a familiar view? it did for me.
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It was very, very exciting. Naturally, on goes the face camo for that whole section *la la la, ignoring MGS4 story*
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that whole chapter was amazing! especially the thrilling end!
and the very final boss fight.....epic.
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As always, you're my favorite artist on DA. And you did this only four days after I beat MGS4 for the first time! How kind of you!
I'm no pro, so I can't really tell you anything that isn't gushing praise, so I'll go with that. YOU ROCK!
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Haha! I held off on this for that reason. I wanted more people to recognise it
Thank you so much for the really nice comment!
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in b4 big boss looks like bruce willis from Armageddon.
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awww he's awesome ^^ i love big boss and i love this
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The gun in the foreground is great! Reminds me of all those times in MGS2 and 3 trying to line up a guard's head from across a room. Very fitting for this image!
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Cool, I'm glad you think so! I was a bit worried about it not working, but anyone who's played MGS2 and above will recognise the view!
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Big Boss is awesome!! Even though MGS4 ending let me a bit.... meh.
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I'm just glad it's over
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Foolish mortal, do you REALLY believe this is the end? Konami's gonna squeeze more money out of their most popular franchise. XD
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Aaah, but it is the end if I close my eyes and sit in a corner! Wait, in fact I may just pretend that Snake DID shoot himself, so they can't even squeeze a few more games out of his 'dying months'... MGS: Retirement home
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Well if you ask me, I am kinda pretending that Snake DID shoot himself. After all, all what happens after the first ending credits is so strange (Big Boss'very healthy conditions, above all), that I pretend is more like some sort of metaphor... allucination... pre-death experience.... anything. XD
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Thanks for not spoiling and good work, he looks like an actor or three!
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A painful endurance? I didn't find it so, but everyone has their own opinions
Anyways, great Big Boss. I like the rawness of this image too.
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It was for me, in that I spent about 6 hours in one go always thinking the end MUST be near now... when I finished I found walking a bit difficult!
Good ending though
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Impressively done, the detail is fantastic, x3
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hey, this picture is pretty freaking awesome.
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It's been awhile and in that time you have continued to perfect and master your skills as an artist to a higher level of professional stance.
Your style and approach has greatly increased with this latet submission and it's easy to see that you have a strong eye for working with tonal value and anatomy. The variation of expressed grey palette used here is very strong in that you have not only used a good selection to capture detail, lighting and to sharpen the anatomy, but how you have used the tones to bring out the gritty aura that the Metal Gear Series has always had. What is really interesting to see here is the good variety of soft and hard brush strokes to capture the feel of the character of Big Boss. It has definitely worked well here and through those brush strokes and addition of grey tones you've succeeded in creating an outstanding atmosphere of work.
This piece has largely shown that you have a superb talent as a digital artist and that you have truly mastered tonal value to a professional level. By far this is the strongest piece of work you've shown so far and indicates that the art coming from you in the future will only be stronger.
Keep it up.
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Wow, thank you so much (as always)! There was something about it's simplicity and the dark tones that made it work, but I'm still unsure about certain areas - but I'm really glad you think it's strong, always a great boost to hear, so thank you so much.
...Must draw more, must draw more...
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Quite a pleasure 2D. The simplicity and dark tones did work a lot better this time around, but there should always be an area or section to be unsure about. It allows you to improve those next time around.
Pleasure again, keep it up.
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DAaaaaaaaaaang....looks amazing....brilliant work...and
i really want to play MGS4 !!!! i dont have a PS3 though 
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I fell asleep at the ending of this game. And I'm a big MGS fan. It was just too long..
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Agreed, I played a solid 6 hours thinking the ending was always near... it was near, if you took away the cut scenes...
Still, worth it for the closure!
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wow. i always whine when i think that i cant really paint stuff in colors. now i have a very good reason to stop. cos uve shown me how great a monochrome could be even with black and white.
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Cool, I'm glad that's of some help then! I was originally gonna colour this but wasn't sure of what colour scheme to use. So when I get stuck, I make the whole picture in greyscale so I can add colour later - but this time it worked well in grey
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guess this is on its best already man haha~
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Really good stuff. Looking great man. YOU got skills :0
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