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Finally.
 
I started this on Feb 27th and just finished it today, with many consecutive hours of this morning and afternoon spent shading and scrutinizing. I have no idea how many actual hours were spent on this piece, since there were probably at least two months’ worth of time spent on other things, like gaming.
 
I think the idea of March Gustysnows as a bat pony first occured to me around the end of 2017, and languished a bit until I felt like having a go at it. Overall, the finished product matches my original intention with the piece, so I’m pretty highly satisfied. There may have been a little subconscious influence from a piece by “imoshie” on derpibooru, but I did not reference that piece during the numerous drawing/redrawing phases of this picture. I’m glad I stuck with trying a fuzzy version of her hat instead of the usual take.
 
I’d intended on making a non-bat version, too, but the task of back-porting compatible color/shading layers and line fixes from the final 110~ layer file to a wingless version is currently very uninteresting, and I’m not sure the pose would still work..
 
Before my final push on the project, one of the things holding back completion was reluctance to redraw her hat (which I’d interpreted pretty oddly), but it was for the better. I liked the little fabric stress lines around the snaps:
 
 
I’d also toyed early on with a badge on the front flap modelled after Princess Celestia’s sun cutie mark, but decided against it for this piece.
 
A few artifacts snuck into the last phase of assembly, so I’ll probably re-upload with a few other tweaks at some point, but I just want to call it done for now.

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