Blood in the Snow - Metal Gear // Last Sunrise v2

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Metal Gear is a series of story-heavy stealth games created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami. It's a dense series, spanning from its first release in 1987 up until today with its many sequels, prequels, remasters and spinoffs. The series, for the most part, follows Solid Snake, a soldier who wants nothing more than to retire and live a solitary life away from war. As the series goes on, other protagonists enter the fray: Big Boss, a legendary mercenary commander in his descent to villainy, and Raiden, a young soldier picking up the pieces left behind by Snake.

I'm pretty new to the MGS series, I started with MGS1 in January 2022 on my best friend's suggestion and with a wish to play some of the more iconic titles in gaming. I fell in love with the gameplay and storyline immediately, making my way all the way through MGS4 in 2 weeks! Unfortunately I burnt myself out playing that much, finishing through the main story of PW before dropping the series...until October 2023 with the release of the Master Collection Vol. 1! As of writing this, I've just finished MGS4 again, and I'm super excited to dig my claws into the rest of PW and through MGSV!

This shrine serves two purposes: as a love letter to this wild franchise, and as a way for me to organize my thoughts and creations dedicated to it.

Gallery

A collection of my fanart for the series! Hopefully as I make more I'll expand this onto its own page, but for now here they are. Click to view each piece in full.

Two inked sketches of MGS2 Raiden, one is a fullbody of him in the skull suit and the other is a portrait of him smiling menacingly

A page full of doodles, from the top to bottom, left to right: a tiny sketch of Otacon with hearts that says 'dawww'; A rough sketch of Meryl with a teensy chibi Snake in front of her; A sketch of TPP Kaz captioned 'BAAA!!! no wonder people are homophobic!!'; A portrait of TPP Kaz; A portrait of TPP Ocelot with text covering most of it that says 'this sketch looks nothing like him sob'; A doodle of MGS1 Solid Snake, he's saying 'dark little secret!?'

On top of the page, Venom Snake with an angel Ocelot and demon Kaz on his shoulders saying 'KILL' and 'LIVE' respectively; below is a sketch of Old Snake in casual wear lying down, looking worn

A page full of doodles, from the top to bottom, left to right: a very messy doodle of Otacon doing a thumbs up that says 'nice cock!'; two thumbnails of Otacon & Strangelove compositions; A rough sketch of MGS2 Raiden; Two sketches of Naked Snake, one of him yelling looking upset and the other of him looking annoyed in the Croc Cap; a messy doodle of Snake and Otacon on a codec call, Otacon with the close-up portrait; A doodle of Strangelove holding a baby Hal

Two sketches of GZ and PW Kaz portraits, below is a tiny pathetic doodle of his PW design

A fullbody sketch of Otacon in a winter outfit (scarf around his neck, earmuffs and a long coat), to the right is a portrait of him smiling awkwardly, flushed from the cold. The background is colored green with a copic marker and there's a random green cat sticker in between the sketches

A messy value-based sketch of Solid Snake from MGS1, hiding against a wall with his fingers to his neck, taking a codec call

Three doodles, the first is a tiny MK. II with Otacon on the screen saying 'hey snake you should continue now to part 2 of Metal Gear Solid 4 obby it's a little harder but i believe in you!!; A doodle of a younger Solid & Liquid captioned 'god made them estranged bc they'd be unstoppable as actual siblings; A messy chibi doodle of Naked Snake on all fours biting into a fish captioned 'grrrrr hrf grrrr'

A page full of Otacon studies captioned 'HOW DO U DRAW HIM :-(' there's a sketch of his MGS1 model at the bottom captioned 'PS1 Otacon jumpscare'

Sketchbook drawings of Big Boss, EVA and a teensy Kaz captioned 'come to bed bro... bed time... bro... come snuggle bro... time to go to sleep bro...'

Sketchbook drawing of Otacon (MGS4), it's really just a study of his face

Sketchbook drawing of that one screenshot of Big Boss screaming from MGS3. You know the one'

Sketchbook drawing of Raiden (MGS4) with the text 'things i realized after my spiritual awakening <3'

MGS4 era sketch, Otacon holding a scarred Old Snake's cheek

Doodle, Snake and Otacon taking some huskies for a walk, they're both all bundled up but Otacon's face is barely visible behind the scarf

Doodle, a teensy Old Snake in a pill bottle with a radiation symbol, there's an arrow pointing to him that says 'containminated sample'

Sketch of MGR Sunny with a doodle of her and Hal hugging

Sketches, studying Snake's face & trying to figure him out in my style

Full piece, Snake holding a skateboard up on his shoulders on the right, a faded picture of him actually skating on the left

Masonry script snagged from here

Outlinks

Stamps!

Projects

Grind My Metal Gears - A podcast going through each game of the Solid series ft. a longtime and new fan—I've been having a blast listening to this & it's always nice hearing queer voices discuss the series!
Philanthropy - An Otasune Fanzine - A beautiful zine dedicated to Snake & Otacon, with copies still available!