...they love playing it in the comforts of their mansions...
This is what I'm seeing with regards to what's currently happening in the world. Throughout history, the leaders have always been in their comfortable chairs, oftentimes giving commands as easy as moving a tiny chess piece on board. There were a lot of times too where the leaders would themselves fight in the frontline and they were regarded as the greatest in books.
In this era, it seems like making war is just another unserious fun time for the greedy leaders. Why wouldn't they? They're not the ones in the battlefield anyway.
Even worse in this digital age where we can see a lot of shit happening in real time that it feels like we are slowly getting desensitized by what's happening around us.
This idea is presented in a gaming livestreaming manner. The commanders in chief play games while the whole world is watching - even the other leaders are not doing anything about it.
The gamers are drawn in a cartoonish way depicting them being surrounded with positivity and fun colors... all while the games they're playing is as real as fucking Unreal engine 5 hyper realistic bodycam 240 fps in 8K.
And the world is divided. Some don't support it, some do. Which doesn't fucking make sense.
Who supports genocide??? A question I never thought we'd still ask in this day and age.
# Process  I started with a general sketch of what the visuals might look like. I wanted to make it realistic but also still painterly. Genre of the game is horror because, well, the concept is horror.
 I used the game Chuxie as my main reference lol which what I played a few months ago. I drew the environment flatly and just added the shadows later.
 Then finalizing the background.
 I added the drawing of the figure and the first person shooter arm. I chose white both for aesthetic and conceptual purposes.
 Then added the camera and random stuff on screen.
 And the finished piece. Some troll comments like those can really be found on some social media posts btw, so they're not exaggerated.
# Process  I started with a general sketch of what the visuals might look like. I wanted to make it realistic but also still painterly. Genre of the game is horror because, well, the concept is horror.
 I used the game Chuxie as my main reference lol which what I played a few months ago. I drew the environment flatly and just added the shadows later.
 Then finalizing the background.
 I added the drawing of the figure and the first person shooter arm. I chose white both for aesthetic and conceptual purposes.
 Then added the camera and random stuff on screen.
 And the finished piece. Some troll comments like those can really be found on some social media posts btw, so they're not exaggerated.