Boss from MGS3 (+ life updates) (Patreon)

My good coworker friend, who is a huge fan of Hideo Kojima games (I can't even begin to express how much he loves Kojima lol), commissioned me to draw The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3. I myself am not very familiar with Metal Gear and was worried this was too out of my comfort zone, but he was really interested in seeing Boss in my style. 

Given the source material, I think I did okay! Tried something new with filigree flyaway hairs and the backdrop to keep it my ~aesthetic~ The second version is a more friendly version for prints. I don't make prints but he wanted to print it out :')

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This is the final commission/artwork I owe others - after this, I'm finally taking the leap to focus on making a game! I'm glad I'm finally focusing on more tangible art projects rather than just posting art online. Not posting on Instagram has been a huge weight off my chest, it's been nice to not have to worry about numbers every week. As I mentioned it's not a goodbye to social media forever, but it's been a really nice break. I will most likely start posting there again come October - still haven't shared the witches publicly!

As for the game itself, the good news about my fashion game is that I wrote up a detailed game design doc to get a clear sense of what I wanted this game to be, and I showed a few friends and they really enjoyed it. The bad news is that by writing the doc, I realized that this game was much more ambitious than I had thought. So I'm working on some ideas for smaller games, though if you know me then my idea of "small" is not really small by any means...

And of course, even if fashion isn't the main theme of the game, it will always be a theme across all my games - it's very important to me that my games and character designs are aesthetic af 😤 I'm planning to share game progress on Patreon more often since I'm making it my fulltime hobby, and while I'm still brainstorming at this time I'm sure there'll be plenty of concept art and sketches to share. (Actually, you might have already seen some 👀)

Art posts *might* be a little less frequent especially because work is crazy busy right now (my day job is about to release a game too!), but I still have old WIPs and unfinished artwork never seen before that I plan to share on Patreon. I also have that Sailor Moon artbook to work on if I do get the urge to draw something that isn't for my game. 

I don't have any more excuses holding me back from making this game, and it's pretty scary to think about but also exciting! However long this lasts, I hope you'll support me on this journey. And thank you for helping me make it this far <3