#buzzsawy artstuff

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A Wonderbolt suit, model of goggle, and whether your eyes are open or not can add a bunch of possible versions, but of course you really only get to pick one or two.

Sorry Rumble, maybe next time you’ll be a cool-enough older brother to have your own range of variations.

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What happens when you have your entire spring break (and the months prior after which Trevor Devall was an announced VIP/Guest of Honor at BABSCon 2018) to produce something by-you to print out and have signed, but don’t do it?

You wait until the convention has already started after you find f*ck-all of anything (PG and/or signable) with Thunderlane on it from any of the vendors, and make the very thing that night. 

...All at the cost of sleep, a couple hours of staffing, a panel or two, and consciousness for a Smash 4 Wii U tournament the next evening.

This is because you had to leave in the middle of Saturday to a nearby FedEx Office, which took a bit longer than you expected, because:

- You had to whip out your laptop to adjust the resolution of the image in Photoshop (your vectoring software exported an image at, roughly, 5x6 inches at a resolution of 850dpi, so you had to modify it to 350dpi to get the desired 11x14 size)

- This particular FedEx Office only had a laser printer as opposed to an inkjet printer, so using glossy paper resulted in several dots and defects. Initially, print jobs were sent to make 3-4 copies to “warm up the nozzles” with the last copy being the “best”, although it still had difficulty with the glossy paper. Thankfully, this was largely solved by using more “matted” paper that barely looked different.

(However, because the employee felt the prints didn’t come out “perfect” enough, he also gave them to you for free.)

- Because it was printed to “actual size” rather than “fit to page” (I didn’t know the results of either until after the fact), the left and right sides were cut in the white bordering. You rectified this not by printing as “fit to page” but by shifting your signature farther away from the right-hand edge, and had to wait for your laptop to export the image and all its gaussian blur effects for a few minutes, and then reformatting in Photoshop on your laptop.

- After resending the file for printing, said employee went out back, while a different employee unaware of the courtesy gesture covering him came and charged you for the print, but you didn’t mind because of all the favors they’d done already. Saving grace was you got to use your student discount.

- You have never actually used the cropping tools to trim the extra bits of paper off before, taking a few extra minutes, which was enough to miss both the autograph session you were planning to attend that day as well as a panel you were thinking of going to.

Getting it signed waited to Sunday.

Totally worth it.

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If you Pi Day’d yourself out, hopefully you brought a friend that isn’t as gung ho.

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This pegasus needs no introduction.

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With no exposition, explanation, nor anything resembling a backstory, I am suddenly a Wonderbolt!

From an instance I’ve slowed down that’s otherwise visible for a quarter of a second:

Don’t worry, he’s still a fave.

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(Combined across all social/art platforms.)

Honorable mention; July –

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It’s been 21 episodes (and in just an hour, 23) since this but only now did I convert this Shiny to an image with clean, anti-aliased edges against a transparent background and a higher resolution (at least by choice). With a couple minor changes.

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Hmm...

The frontal look of Thunderlane’s mane symbol changes most times it appears:

Because I’m not all that impressed with its newest look, I recycled the one from his last which was in episode #100. The rest of it is just from his three-quarter view and gets pushed to the left as he turns his head.

The guy sounds older than the main cast now too, holy sh*t.