Pixelfable

Repository for sketches and fan work and junk.

[adamnfiddle]

Butt poses for all!

Based on a Gil Elvgren pin-up.

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Another reblog from the new blog! Please follow there -- this account's getting phased out.

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Showing up late to the art vs. artist party!

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Hello friends and followers! This blog was one of the Tumblr password lockout casualties. Kindly follow @adamnfiddle if you still want a mixed bag of art updated once in a blue moon.

Gonna reblog posts here a couple more times until I sign out on the mobile app and put this poor old tumble to bed.

Thanks!

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A birthday drawin’ for my good buddy @brilliant-smallfish! Her favorite bat-rhino-lobster wizard!

Took some liberties on his design for funsies.

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Thinkin’ about Kaz and Kaz-mom gettin’ dressed up for a photo and standing awkwardly together. He’s probably like... ten? Eleven. Around there.

I always thought of the cigarette shop as being one of those tiny, walk-up-to-the-window deals.

[cephiedvariable]

[PURCHASE AT STORENVY]  [PURCHASE AT GUMROAD]

YO YO, It’s Feburary 14th and you know what that means - that’s right, today is the official digital release date for the doujin @playerprophet and I have been working on today for the last few months! Buy it now while it’s still at pre-order price, because the price is going up on Monday!

THE LAST NINE YEARS is an 83 page Metal Gear Solid doujinshi exploring the evolution of Snake and Otacon’s partnership between the games. You can read a preview of the doujin at AO3.

PHYSICAL COPIES We filled the print order this month! We’re getting a good deal from DoujinPress, but they’ve been unable to give us an exact date due to the nature of the discount we took. We anticipate that we’ll be mailing out the books sometime in mid-March, so expect them at your house in early April at the latest (we’ll keep you updated).

SHARING POLICY While pre-orders did cover some of the printing fees, Dawn and I still paid a substantial amount of money out of pocket to send this thing to the printers, so while we don’t mind you sharing the PDF with a friend or two if they want to see it, we’d ask that you strongly encourage your friends to buy it if they liked it. In this vein, if there’s a panel or page that really strikes you, feel free to share it on tumblr/twitter/whatever! We do, after all, want as many people as possible to enjoy this. <3

MANY THANKS Go to our guest artists, @pixelfable, @14066, @arceelayen, also our many rl friends who proof-read this monster and also kept up the cheer-leading, even if they had only the most peripheral knowledge of the source material. Also, insane thanks to our roommate @thebeccabeast for immeasurable amounts of help on basically all levels (art, moral support, financial support).

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Go! Go! Pick it up, my dudes! Love blossoms on the battlefield!

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Multi-tasking.

The less I fuss and over-work, the happier I am with a drawing. Funny how that works! Also trying to make better use of Photoshop brushes.

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So @playerprophet​ and @cephiedvariable​ combined their considerable powers to make a Otacon x Solid Snake doujin, The Last Nine Years, and I had the honor of doing some guest art!

I couldn’t decide what the hell I wanted to draw, so the obvious solution was to crank out a bunch of excessively happy stuff with the Egg Family and cram it into one big thing.

Now go! Grab yourself a preorder of the comic and feast your eyes on their hard work!

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Dug through some poorly-named PSDs and pulled out some Metal Gear sketches from the end of 2015 that never went anywhere. Now to get back to work on the things that I actually NEED to finish.

(Sorry about repost, Tumblr was being a jerk. Now split into two images to fix the garbage. Tumblr is a quality website.)

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Let’s be honest: Venom’s only real friends in this shit show are his pure, sweet animal buddies.

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Imagine being Catherine and knowing shit-all about your dad and then you grow up and ask around and the few people still alive are like, “WOW. Oh boy, where to even start...”

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Kazuhira McDonell Benedict Miller, don’t you dare pull that pin.

Hhhhh. I want to do a whole comic, but hell if I have the energy.

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shutupkaz.jpg

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Doodling some boring Snake portraits because I’m drunk and have lost control of my life. Plus trying to figure out how the clones might differ from original flavor (more hints of their Japanese surrogate? 10% narrower?) I also like the idea that BB is at least 40% hairier than his sons and Liquid/Solid suck at growing proper, glorious beards.

P.S. Sorry George. You’d just be like, horizontal-flipped BB with grey hair.

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Los Angeles, 1999

Based on @cephiedvariable‘s BBKaz fic. By no means the most dramatic part, but I liked the atmosphere of this scene and the juxtaposition of domestic, fatherly stuff with Kaz’s eternal curse duty of telling a Snake what to do.

The proportions on that kitchen are for a very short person, but at least I drew a background for once!

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PLEASE IMMEDIATELY SCATTER MY SORROW TO THE HEARTLESS SEA.

I ended up sleeping in today because I have a flu and apparently my roommates were out in the living room impatiently flailing because they couldn’t wait for me to get up and see this! It’s beautiful - the composition, the colour, the atmosphere… this is literally exactly the picture, the lighting and the kitchen layout I had in my head while writing this scene. The details are incredible as well (the clunky 90’s spy-computer gear, the file folders, the smog outside, Catherine’s robot and dog drawings *___*). Ngghhhhh, I love it so much!!!!!!!!!!!

I also CANNOT BELIEVE that someone would draw this scene! When people do art of fanfics, it’s usually the dramatic or romantic moments that get remembered, so it’s crazy flattering seeing art of a quieter, more introspective moment. But, tbh, those scenes are among the most fun to write for me (which is why my Metal Gear fics keep cracking the 15k barrier). It’s nice to know that my atmospheric writing strikes the same kind of chord with people as the sweeping proclamations about character motivation and torrid kisses do. (This was also one of my personal favourite scenes in the story soooo…… :D).

I feel like I’ve lived some kind of charmed adulthood that I’ve gotten to see even a little bit of your incredible art inspired by words and characters that I’ve written. Like, I was not exaggerating when I mentioned in my tags a few weeks ago that you’re one of my favourite artists ever. I just love your style and sense of character and scene so much that I can legitimately stare at your drawings wistfully for hours (I mean, I guess I kinda do since I have a bunch of it on my walls).

I’m gonna be a huge loser and print this thing off and stick it on my wall beside all the old Kamil te Kar art I still keep around. ;__;

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Ahhh--! My insides are warm and fuzzy.

But I just wanted to add that you have a great talent for setting a scene/mood, especially when it comes to writing more understated scenarios within universes that are batshit crazy like MGS. And I fucking love it.

Plus you always know how to parse out and expand on characters and their motivations in really satisfying ways.

KEEP IT COMING.

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Los Angeles, 1999

Based on @cephiedvariable‘s BBKaz fic. By no means the most dramatic part, but I liked the atmosphere of this scene and the juxtaposition of domestic, fatherly stuff with Kaz’s eternal curse duty of telling a Snake what to do.

The proportions on that kitchen are for a very short person, but at least I drew a background for once!

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AU where, towards the end, Quiet and Venom get sick of everyone’s bullshit, run off to live in a junky RV somewhere with lots of sun, and have PTSD together. They become that weird couple that occasionally shows up in town and talk to each other in Navajo. Venom collects rocks minerals and has a stash of diamonds that he could probably try to sell, but doesn’t.

P.S. Does he take the arm off to sleep? I don’t think that would be comfortable with all the straps. Same with the eyepatch. Does Quiet even sleep? WHO KNOWS.

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Some R&R.