Edit: Mouth was a little off, so made a slight adjustment.
Original Post: 8-Oct-2014
I love Yoji Shinkawa's art for MGS series, so I thought I'd attempt to make some Metal Gear Scanlon fan-art in his style.
"Why is Drew's eye red?", you may be wondering. Nano-machines.
Done using a Pentel Brush Pen, a 0.3mm Letraset Fine Line Pen and Copic Markers (Neutral Grey), with some Photoshop tweaking. The Drew one was my first real attempt at mimicking Shinkawa's style and I ended up having to make a lot of edits in Photoshop (in retrospect I was being quite lazy and probably should have redone it instead). I think it turned out OK though. My second attempt, i.e. Dan, went a whole lot smoother.
It was fun. I may move onto the rest of the Bombcrew, if people want to see that.
Nice. Was it the FP10 pocket brush pen? I've had a hard time finding out more about Shinkawa's process, and have wanted to mimic his style in some pieces.
Drew looks like that bad guy out of I believe, For A Few Dollars More, in a Saloon scene. All of them including Jeff makes me want to keep a shottie in the kitchen in case anyone of them shows up at my door.(JK)
@sanj: I was watching the latest Metal Gear Scanlon 2....and I thought to myself as Drew died "Did Jason just say "Stop screwing around!" " then I heard Otacon shout "What? SNAKE! SNAKE! SNAAAAKE!"
Then I put it all together... Jason IS Otacon. He is on the "codec" talking through their ears. HE KNOWS STUFF. He is bespectacled and does kind of look like Otacon.
I think if you were up for it you could do a Jason as Otacon for this.
@akyho: I came here after Metal Gear Scanlon 2 to suggest a Jei Ling portrait, since he's always reminding them to save and be cautious. Although Oestacon would probably be a bit more doable.
I think at this point, the main idea for this art project is "The GB staff drawn in the style of a specific kind of artwork", not "Who in the GB staff would fit each MGS role". With the addition of Brad and Jeff, who aren't even in the feature, and Jason being a villain instead of any of the Codec helpers, that's the only way this makes sense.
Very awesome update. I agree with your sentiment of distancing yourself from the original art style, but damn if you can't be proud of what that accomplishes! :)
Thanks for the comments duders. I made an adjustment to Patrick's one. I originally wanted to keep that one a bit more minimalist, so opted not to use the markers. But I think it needed just a bit of marker work.
These are awesome, Dotacon is too perfect to pass up. I'm really loving your style/s; Shinkawa or not, each duder looks so distinctive! Can't wait to see your takes on Rorie and GBeast.
@sanj: Aw, thanks! I was actually kind of expecting an Oestricon (@akyho suggested it earlier on this page), since Jason really fits that character, but Jason as Ocelot is awesome. At least other fan artists can take on Oestricon if they so desire!
Again, can't wait for your takes on Rorie, Alex and Vinny (especially Vinny, if he turns out how I think he might).
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