He is a weird looking little bastard, but is rather polite with you? He could cheat, not follow the rules, I mean the shotgun is RIGHT THERE, nah, he just wants to play the game.
least favorite thing about them
I....I am unsure? Perhaps the lack of lore? I have been sustained by random head canons on tumblr, but I would like more information on the world and what he even is.
favorite line
OKAY so...I...is it canon? There was a trailer for the multiplayer, and I keep quoting "care for an orange?" to my husband. There are no oranges in our house. Ever.
brOTP
UHHH The Dealer and The Doctor, bingo, yep.
OTP
The Dealer x Player. HOW STURDY IS THAT TABLE, HUH? JUST CURIOUS.
nOTP
??? Hm...The Dealer x ...idk the ice machine.
random headcanon
Like one I like or one I have? One I like is that he is a BIG LAD, yes, correct, perfect. My own headcanon? I think I lot of people see him as being gentlemanly, I kind of prefer him to be hyper into technology, cigs, and beer. More industrial and grungy I suppose?
unpopular opinion
Probably my headcanon of him to be honest? LIKE IT IS GOOD, DON'T GET ME WRONG, SEEING HIM IN A NICE SUIT AND ALL, I just see him as the person that can make SAW contraptions out of scrap, I CRAVE THE METAL, WIRES, AND RUST OKAY??? He surely is good with his hands.
Also my other terrible opinion was "how could people be into him?"
Lo and behold, here I am, the simp.
song i associate with them
Yea, I know, the first round's song. I actually listened to this on loop for HOURS before knowing it was from Buckshot Roulette or what it even was. Overdose Casino is also a banger.
favorite picture of them
This image lives in my head rent free. Canon art of him is also great, but alas, he is just a head and hands.
Fun last fact, I am DOGSHIT at this game, and am extremely unlucky. My husband beat it on his first go.
Maybe you can "see" by my posting time that things went fairly "sklent" for me today. 🙃
But, I admit despite that, this may well be my favorite mandala so far—At least a small win for the day! 🙌
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Well Sparklers, if you thought for a moment that me uploading yesterday's Obscutober a bit early in the day [for me, at least] meant earlier uploads were going to continue, you've been bamboozled about as much as I was last night when I came home and thought, "I'll just work on tomorrow's mandala a bit before bed..."
Because I said that, and then I sat at my desk and spent more time just trying not to fall asleep than actually getting any work done, considerably worse than the fight I had on Day 3. 😫 It was so frustrating!
And then, naturally, I woke up this morning and have spent most of the day struggling to string more than 5 minutes together at a time to actually get it done. Lately, it never seems to fail—If I'm already under pressure have something time-sensitive to do, suddenly there is just no time to do anything. 🙄
Still, you can see I did pull together something. By some miracle, I'm also actually really happy with it—This is probably the weirdest mandala and also the weirdest color palette yet!
Clearly, I opted to keep the mandala lines mostly simple. The definition for today is the most simple so far, so combined with my difficulties in actually this done, that was just the course of action that made the most sense. However, me being me, I did have to find some way to still make it interesting and not just an otherwise plain but very triangle/diagonal line-heavy mandala.
I assume it's easy to see—ha ha—that I opted to make a very angular side-glancing eye to go with the third variation of the word. The side-glancing part was made a little bit easier by discovering what the "rotational symmetry" toggle in. Procreate's guide settings actually does—I really could've used that back on Day 2 if I'd realized what it did then!
That eye shape guided the rest of the piece once I had it down. The outer most mandala border was vaguely angry-eyebrow inspired, the inner one was sort of makeup and sharp cheekbone inspired, and then it's difficult to see but there's a little bit of hatching shaped like tears under the eye portions. Worth noting that I almost didn't have the one lower "lash"—That was a late addition while I was just trying to fill out some of the empty space, but I think it was one of the most important additions in the end; It kinda ties the whole eye shape together in way that just wasn't happening without it.
The rest was mostly random and just whatever felt like it worked well. I didn't want to get too carried away with stuff that wasn't more directly related to the eye shape and make it too difficult to recognize, in addition to just not wanting to take too long working on the art as a whole because of the aforementioned time-related struggles I've already been having today.
I was very resistant to adding any curves at all, but they ended up there anyhow because I was running out of ideas for filling the space with angles. I do kind of like how it contrasts with expectations a bit though; That you'd expect eyes to be curved and soft but accented by angles, so this is the other way around.
The eyes also shaped the color palette; I was actually very tempted to do this one with white lines instead and fill in the whites of the eyes as solid instead—And I'm still thinking about doing that as a bonus verson for my Ko-fi Members if I have time, but we'll see; I'll add the link here if I do—but I ultimately chose black just so the eye shape would be more obvious. From there, the natural choice was to do something that kind of colored the eyes "properly," and just to make it more interesting I did the "big 3" eye colors.
So we're up to black, white, blue, green, brown. Already a slightly unconventional palette. I polished it off by making the background a pale pink. [This is also a bit of change of form—So far I've picked the background color and then colored on top of it.] I didn't want to pick a natural skin color because that felt both boring and just generally not right, and for some reason the idea to just continue to pick something weird was calling to me. Pink was the first option that came to mind, and I was almost startled but how much I like the way this looks when I first tried it, so my decision was made.
Thing DONE, yay! 😃
It may have taken far too long and far too much unrelated, external frustration to get it done, but I am grateful that I like the end results as much as I do. Considering how it got started, I did not go in with high hopes. 😅
Next we'll see how much additional frustration I incur in trying to cross-post it. 🙃
Hopefully, tomorrow will go more smoothly, but I'm keeping my expectations low—I know how Inktober season usually goes. 🫠 But we'll find out one way or another, won't we...
