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oh to live in the timeline where fred astaire played wonka...

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decompression doodle featuring the wretched little man (again)

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all i know is draw this guy smoking

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Your Wonka design is, without a doubt, one of the best I have ever seen. I noticed he has a scar on his head. While designing him, did you ever have an idea for where he got that scar?

thank you so much <3 and thank you for asking, i love rambling about my silly wonka headcanons teehee

i tend to think of him as carefree to the point of recklessness, even when it concerns his own safety, so i imagine he gets into a lot of work-related accidents. getting nicked and burned and beat up and so on by his own contraptions on a fairly regular basis. i like the ominous air of danger that surrounds the factory with its incomprehensible, enormous, indifferent, relentless machinery and this idea that next to nothing leaves it unchanged, the way resources and raw ingredients leave as processed product, the way the children are marked for life after their visit, etc., and i think this should extend to its owner as well. i never thought of a very specific scenario that caused the scar. whatever happened, his permanently unevenly dilated pupils also resulted from the same head trauma. a separate incident is the reason for his occasional reliance on a cane. now, does he ever learn from any of these injuries? no <3

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how many more portraits of this guy will i draw? yes

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bonus bc i can't stop:

i am now addicted to drawing him like this

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i am now addicted to drawing him like this

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so. Stella, huh? anyone. anyone care about that show?

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always been handy with the pliers

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i'm literally going insane about the symbolic potential around Warden's gloves and glasses. like. yellow is the primary color of his silly little coping mechanism escapist amusement park that he fortified away from the rest of the world. it's the color of his custom-built, 100% hand-made mirage where he is always in full control. he's so firmly stuck in his own delusional perception that his actual vision is tinted and warped by it. yellow. it's all fucking yellow. he literally can't see the world for what it is and that's by design because who is forcing him to wear those dumb glasses? and motherfucker even wears them to sleep like are you kidding me?? not a single second spent outside of the safety of his personal fantasy, not a single second spent confronted with the horrors he's been surrounded with from childhood and continues to choose to be surrounded with. always a layer of canary away from life as it is. and the fucking gloves, too!! this marker of distance and sterility on a guy with a moral superiority complex who, due to his holier-than-thou coping mechanism narcissism, isolates himself from everyone around him because they're beneath him or some shit when in reality he's desperate desperate desperate for connection and terrified of being abandoned but can't fucking admit it or achieve any form of human proximity because of his patrilineal brain damage that dictates that big strong manboys can't have feelings and because women are a foreign concept to him and he's "better than" everyone anyway. and the empathy has been pavloved out of him one dead puppy at a time. so he wears the goddamn gloves and he wears them to sleep and he wears them when he's supposed to be intimate with someone. he's removed himself from everything and everyone and he's ruining his life, and the lives of all those he holds hostage so that he doesn't end up alone, because of it but he can't help himself because he's so thoroughly and intentionally wrapped up in his own bullshit that he keeps reinforcing in a never ending cycle of his own creation. FUCK!!!!

yes, i'm reading too much into the stupid joke character from the stupid joke show, thank you for asking <3

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poll's over, now here are my two cents:

book wonka would win because that little freak is completely feral, has no consideration for the safety of himself or others, is fit enough to keep up with a bunch of excited 8-year-olds on an hours long speedwalking tour despite being an old man, and definitely plays dirty. and because short people are scary

and leave your reasoning in the tags if you'd like to

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and leave your reasoning in the tags if you'd like to

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nevermind

they're besties

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Superjail would have never worked in live action for obvious reasons but part of me wishes there was an in person performance of David Wain as the Warden. it would have been so so so weird in the best way

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absolutely nothing behind the eyes <3

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the way you draw 1971's wonka makes me giggle like a schoolgirl he's so sjdjdjdjsis keep going love your art

Thank you!!

Seeing him on film makes me giggle like a schoolgirl, so I'm glad to hear I've translated the experience accurately haha