This was done for Roadkill's This-Week Jam, a weekly exercise where participating artists draw a character chosen at random at the beginning of the week, from a pool of previously submitted ideas from the members as a group.

Never being a super-fan of Gambit, I felt compelled to redesign him, not so much 'Ultimatized' but rather 'TRDL-ified', using the design style and aesthetic I tend to use on my own characters. It's not so close to the Gambit of which we are all thoroughly familiar, I'm sure, but I kept a few things similar- namely the lean gymnastic build (with more developed shoulders for all that handstand, balance work, etc.) the weird red pupil/black eye business, a slight reference to his nutty shocks of Cajun hair, and of course, the charged playing card... I used the card as the inspiration for the whole kit.