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More Smash Bros. fakery from me. The game has a costume for “Crafted Yoshi” which is a great inclusion, but “Yarn Yoshi” would’ve been much more interesting, so I put this together in Photoshop.

I foolishly thought (for some reason) that this would be a simple, straightforward costume to create, but it turned out to be a pretty agonizing, tedious, and long process. I started by collaging photographs of the official Woolly World promo images (the ones used to advertise the game, not the amiibo toys) into the correct pose for Smash, which took under an hour to do. Unfortunately the photos were too blurry to match the super sharp, super-detailed renders of Smash Ultimate, so I began tracing EVERY. SINGLE. THREAD. Each part of the character (the nose, the bottom of the shoe, the arm, etc) became its own long evening of arduous painting; thread after thread. The whole thing took about a week to produce, so please check out the full 5000x5000 pixel HD glory of this fake render:

https://www.deviantart.com/pavlovs-walrus/art/Yarn-Yoshi-Alternate-Costume-Transparent-773616254?ga_submit_new=10%3A1542866594&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1