Mandela Catalogue
Fanart and Edits

I thought the occasional use of red was a really cool motif in the videos, considering it almost always appears whenever "outside interference" changes the content of the VHS tapes in which the Mandela Catalogue is captured in. 

A lot of people tell me why I do the things I do. I'm not actually sure how to answer that question besides free will.

So I was eyeing this $13 custom double sided pillow cover on Etsy and I was pretty much sold on it. I mean, I could go to conventions or camping with "Gabriel" - both sides of him, in fact. 

I really like his "Overthrone" appearances, though Vol.4's appearance would also be an honorable mention..

The development/road to the final images is (in my opinion) a big jump from what it was previously. Not to say that what I did is the most professional touch up, but it was a much different "photoshop" experience than one may expect...

Because this is what the original photo(s) look like, courtesy of the original Overthrone video -

It has a strange, slight lazy eye to him, and it was often ridiculed in the fanbase (sometimes some fanart). I still thought he was beautiful in a neither masculine or feminine way, and whether he had a lazy eye or not, it would not change my feelings whatsoever.

In any case, the "HD" photo did piss me off in that, with closer inspection, whoever submitted it must've used some crappy upscaler. Curves were strange and jagged, air looked matted, and it must've made those dark pixels in his eyes as something part of his cornea.  Granted, upscalers don't have much to work with if the original photo is 144p quality... so it was up to me to remold him into what he deserves to look like. 

Perhaps the 480p quality of the video and the really blurry shadows of this low poly render version of "Gabriel" wasn't enough to give me an idea of what he may actually look like, but surely the imagination exists, and artists also exist. Unfortunately, I am part of both of those groups. My goal was just to make it as though you were seeing him in person, not 480p and -5 vision style but in HD 20/20 style. The video representation is much scarier to encounter in real life, but you know.. I'm used to having blurry vision and I always dismiss shadows and faces in my periferal, no matter how frightening the implications might be.

This is an AU (alternative universe) where everything is actually okay. Alternates show up to your home but only for the sake of pajama parties.
I initially wanted to bring this idea to life because I wanted more clothing-type merch made under this fandom. I was also having a shortage of pajamas...

Unfortunately I never brought up the idea to the creator himself because I realized it could be taken as fanservice... so it was just limited to a reddit post. 

r/MandelaCatalogue - I put the gang in pajamas

Relatively straight forward edit for a gift that I gave to my sister, she doesn't like Gabriel but I thought maybe in this context he'd be a bit less intimidating(?)
I took a standalone picture of the present and just went ham on Medibang, adding necessary shadows

Unfortunately, it was also around the time when Character.ai became popular. And of course he existed as a character...