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hi! Can I ask what you use to draw digitally? bc I kinda want to try it out once again but last time the technology was very different and I have very few ideas on what's best.

Hope I'm not bothering you with this question otherwise feel free to ignore me! Thx anyway 🙏🏻

Hi! Pretty much since 2018 all my digital drawings have been made on a second gen ipad pro in Procreate! Prior to that I used a Wacom Bamboo tablet (a non-screen one) rotating between Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop and Paint Tool SAI as softwares, I didn’t really prefer one over the other... I never had a screen tablet (like i.e. a cintiq) before pivoting to the ipad so I can’t talk about the difference, all I can say is that the apple pencil is very comfortable, even more so if you invest in a matte screen protector. 

Coming from Photoshop and other softwares with a similar interface, Procreate has a bit of a learning curve because they tried to reinvent it from scratch as something that would make use of the touchscreen etc. so you kind of have to forget about what is supposed to be where. It is strictly a painting software so its editing capabilities are limited, but the brush engine is neat and the library ever expanding. It also has the considerable advantage of being a single purchase app and not a subscription based one. Sometimes I also use autodesk Sketchbook (which should be free) on the ipad but now that is an interface I can’t get used to. The built-in brushes are neat though!

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words are very unnecessary

(full 🔞 on bsky)

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found this sketch of Lila and Lenù in the 80s from when I read the books during the 2020 lockdown

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Glad to be with you, Boss 📦💕

Inspired by this prompt by @northpark1109

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Old friend (derogatory (with sexual intent))

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The Green Pope for Goran's Sons of Orcus art challenge. He got an axe to the head back in the day and hasn't been the same since (batshit crazy)

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couldn't get this sketch to look right except for the tonguing part so. Strategic cropping

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If you have already seen this... yes you did (the panel on the left), but while going through my draft I realized I had started a follow-up picture back in the day and decided to finish it

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Bumping this for a few days before hitting delete since people are asking. Same username on bluesky

Temporary post that will self destruct for those who need a pointer to the twitter account with my art that is not safe to look at when you're at your place of employment:

here

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otasuns being best pals (full pic on twit/bsky)

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this is what happens when I leave the room without pausing the game and nobody is watching them

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And it's a wrap: the short, shocking (?) epilogue to the Mad Men/Metal Gear crossover nobody asked for but that I willed into existence anyway. Thanks for reading!

These Abominable Fancies - Epilogue

“I think nobody truly matters to you. Everyone is expendable in the name of some higher purpose I’m sure you can’t quite explain. And that’s why you’re still here, while there’s a trail of destruction in your wake.”

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These Abominable Fancies - Chapter 3

It's even more remarkable when they are close enough that Don can see that not only Miller has showered and changed into fresh clothes for the occasion like the day before, but Snake did that too, his thick mop of shaggy hair wet and slicked back. Maybe it’s a coincidence – maybe the man has a hard rule that he only showers on Mondays – but Don’s gut feeling is that this is part of that underground bargaining those two have going on all the time. If that is the case, he is grateful that Miller’s persuasion skills extend to personal grooming.

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These Abominable Fancies - Chapter 2

Miller saunters towards him with all the confidence of someone high-ranking enough to allow himself familiarity. Or maybe they're simply friends, different as they look. “Congratulations on the mission, Boss,” he smiles, patting Snake on the shoulder. The other man returns the gesture, though seemingly more forcefully. His hands are huge, the forearms hairy. “Business as usual,” he says, in a low raspy tone. “Speaking of business. This is Don, the ad man from New York. I told you he would come.” Don takes this as his cue to get on stage and act in a play he's seen and performed a thousand times, except that now he is both the one making the pitch and the client to be wooed. He walks up to Snake, hand outstretched. “Don Draper, from McCann & Erickson. I'm told you need an advertising campaign.” Snake looks at Don's hand for a split second as if this basic social vocabulary was foreign to him, then he remembers and shakes it. Unsurprisingly, he has an iron grip. “Nice to meet you, Don. We'll see about who needs what.”

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Vquiet is such a sweet ship and with how many time i’ve seen men reducing quiet to just a sexual object while ignoring their genuine connection seeing them have a more gentle approach to sex healed me a bit

well anon, you're preaching to the choir here, I can't help but see their relationship as very intense but also gentle, like fuck the mission these two yearn and care for each other against their better judgment since day one... I also might or might not have over 20k words of low stakes au fic about them marinating in my drafts, just to give you an idea how much of my mental real estate is taken up by them being sweet to each other. Even when they uuuhhh get intensely physical

I don't really fw the bro side of mgs fandom because I value my mental health lol, but I also think that an unpleasant truth is that a lot of it is baked into the source material. I love metal gear, it has literally taken over my life this year, but I'm too old and jaded not to acknowledge that it isn't the best franchise for female characters, and the vast majority of them is designed to be sexualized with a straight male audience in mind. And yes, some male characters get sexualized in canon too (the Snakes especially), but I'm not going to pretend it's an even playing field, and that's a problem that stems directly from the games themselves I think. This said the bro side of fandom is always at the scene of the crime

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Pequod don't look (uncensored under the cut + bonus panel)

this wasn't in the job description, Boss

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What if I told you... I wrote a Metal Gear/Mad Men crossover that I started almost as a joke/thought experiment but turned into a Real Fic because the two canons slot together surprisingly well?

These Abominable Fancies - Chapter 1

“If I can sell peace, I can also sell war. And you need me more than I need you, because you cannot do what you do without money.” Sometimes you need to outsource certain business activities to the most qualified professional you can think of. This is the story of how MSF got its snazzy branding and of the most unlikely place Don Draper’s wanderlust has taken him to.