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This was quite a bit easier than I was expecting.S and E were already there, T and H come easy, and the diagonal on the Z was made from reversing the one part of the R.

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This one wasn’t nearly as difficult as anticipated. Very lucky break on the H already being in place.

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I wanted to put the heart over the I but it already had wings, plus the caption gets in the way. Maybe that caption needs to be removed altogether.

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I like how I perceive not as really easy, even though I had to free-hand most of the smaller letters. I also ran into some trouble with the U, with the end of the right inside curve that I’m not happy with.

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I consider this my thus-far magnum opus, even if it didn’t garner as much attention on TheShizz as others have. Even tough the F became a T very easily, this was a long, messy road otherwise. But I’m very pleased with how it turned out. If I were to adjust anything, the Zs on the right maybe climb too high.

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This is the happiest I’ve been with the Zs on anything. It’s unfortunate that the S doesn’t quite fit with the lengthening of the M.

Unfortunately, you can’t get the framerate on the animation on the web that you need. I spent a while grabbing the colors by pausing an emulator and advancing frame-by-frame.

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This was reeeeeaal easy. All I had to do was make H and Z. I’m not happy with how the S looks at the top. I guess I could lengthen that since it’s only shorter because of the interaction with the T in the original.

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Robocop aka. Human Security Officer was the choice for the Shizz’s MAGFest 2017 shirt. This should come as no surprise due to it being Robocop and also the art quality. 

I some shit about copyright from the first shirt printer that I went to about the design, even though they have a whole section with parody designs. In the end, a friend tipped me off to www.legacyprintingco.com who did a perfect job on 55 shirts of diverse base colors, and for the perfect price.

Instead of providing just the original, I’ll put my “working” sheet. You can see how I build a large H before realizing that I needed a smaller one.

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For once, making the Zs was one of the easiest parts. The S was a nightmare, the lighting/shadows of which still needs fixing. If I were to fix stuff, I would do that and maybe rework the goo in just about all of the places.

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I was very excited to work on and complete this, which took a while considering how much free-hand needed to be involved. I’m not happy about the amount of plain space on the H to the left of the I, but I’m happy about just about everything else. There are a handful of potential details changes that I would put to a committee if this were to be used for anything.

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In my research of fonts, I’ve found there is almost anything you could ever want freely out there in a web application. I got this one here: http://www.dafont.com/barbarian.font?text=Shizz.%3E&psize=l and simply adjusted the jankeyness.

I originally wanted to make a logo using the NES Conan game (a shitty reskin of Myth) title screen, but this was so much easier and better.

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This was a real test. I had to free-hand a lot of it, though online font research helped a bunch with Z and S. Notice that the letters have to get a little smaller going from left to right.

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I consider this one of the best, potentially will be a shirt one day. Still not 100% happy with the Zs. I’ve added an alternate Z form.

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This turned out to the best easiest one. All of the letters were already there!

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Pretty pleased with this considering how early on it was. H was worked out of the Ns rather easily, and the Zs were free-handed pretty well. There is a little bit of jank to the middle of the S, made from the big C, that I would fix if I were to use this for anything.

The only trouble is how lopsided it is to the right, since the words are shorter. I toyed with making tail to the right turn down right over his head, but it didn’t look good. Maybe a different layout, with the dude on the left, would work better.....

OK, so I just gave that a shot, and even fixed the S jank that I was talking about. The 3rd image shows the result. Luckily his jacked has a symmetrical letter.

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T, E, and I were already there. Pretty simple due to the sheer low number of pixels I needed to manipulate, but you can start to see me getting confident (and even succeeding!) in free-handing some stuff.