If you like Metal Gear, chances are youâve heard the name Ashley Wood before. While these days the Australian artist is kept busy with things like comics, art books, toys, TV and movies, heâs also had a long-running and very successful stint as an artist for Konamiâs blockbuster stealth franchise.
Whatâs cool about Woodâs Metal Gear work is that it spans mediums. While men like Yoji Shinkawa (who weâll feature here in good time) were designing the actual Metal Gear games, Wood was working on comic books based on and around the series. Then, when Konami decided to make games that used his signature visual style, he got to make some Metal Gear games of his own.
In 2006, Wood provided the artwork for the Metal Gear Solid digital comic on the PSP, and in the same year supplied the cutscenes for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Four years later, he would do the same thing for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Woodâs distinctive style has been with the franchise for so long and across so many formats that, in a rare feat, heâs even got an art book based just on his Metal Gear stuff.
In the gallery above youâll see a cross-section of his Metal Gear work, from old comics to the more recent PSP games.
You can see more of Woodâs stuff, both Metal Gear and beyond, at the various links below.
To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on the âexpandâ icon on the main image above and select âopen in new tabâ.
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Ashley Wood [Personal Site]
Ashley Wood [Personal Blog]
Ashley Woodâs Art of Metal Gear Solid
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