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How to Make a Pi(e)… card.

So for Justin’s birthday I was like.. what do I get him? Last year I got him some pony figurines and a cheesecake, because he really likes cheesecake. But let’s get serious this year - I mean he gave me the Cloud Cuckoo Palace for my birthday which is like the coolest thing ever. Unikitty is love, Unikitty is life.

So my plan was to get him a Raspberry Pi! It’s a little computer thingie… thing. He programs so like, yeah. I’ve seen people do cool things with it, so maybe he could make cool things with it. Yeeaaah!

NO BIRTHDAY IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A CARD!

So I wanted to get a pie card. I searched Hallmark, but no luck. Who would even want a pie card? I want a pie card.

But then it hit me like a pie to the face - I do like, art things. Hey! Why don’t I just make a card. Wow, genius.

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But I’m sweeter. Huehuehuehue.

Read more to find out about the process!

Font used is Bubblegum Sans.

The process! Well you gotta make the pie. Here is the initial pie. This is very complicated. Make sure not to burn it.

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I then decided to curve the anchors on the pie. This kills the pie. It looked like butt - do not do.

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Alright now y'all gotta add them fancy thingies to your pie. You know what I’m talking about. So I found out that E in Illustrator is this “Free Transform” tool. It’s really useful. If you grab one of the transform corners and then press Ctrl, it will make this cool perspective warp. I used it to figure out how the heck the pie stripe topping thing worked.

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Now it’s time to fill dat pie up with… hexagons. Filling squares full of hexagons?! What a pain and waste of time. To speed things up, I took that large hexaberry you see off on the left and made a Scatter Brush out of it. I modified the size and rotation to be slightly random, and made the scatter pack them closer together. Then I press B for the Paintbrush tool, and draw a bunch of lines with the new brush. I can then expand the appearance, un-group, and move around each berry to make it look nicer.

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So now it’s time for me to make the berry. Since my plan was to get him a Raspberry Pi, I wanted to base the raspberry off of the Raspberry Pi logo, which is the logo to the right with the black outline.image

My attempts go from top to bottom in earliest to latest. The first is very barebones. I just used my hexagons and squashed them into the proper shapes. In the second, I tried giving it a black outline, but that looked icky so I dropped it like a chestnut full of centipedes. The third still had outlines. It looks okay right? However I decided to create the fourth and final one which is without outlines since everything else on the pie has no outlines. The 3rd outlined version looked out of place.

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So here’s what my pie looked like after I had just finished the berry. I had added a gooey raspberry puddle, some spots on the crust for a bit of fun, and the filling! Did I fill that in manually? HAHA no.

The filling was made by creating a pattern. Did I put in the hexaberries manually? HAHA no. Like with the filling on the crust, I put a bunch of random lines all over the pattern with the Paintbrush Tool, expanded, and then adjusted them to my liking. I then manually added more hexaberries on the filling edges to make it look.. bumpier..? I’m not done yet!!

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Then I added in an outline for a cutting guide and words. Aren’t I sweet? I am. I am the true pie. One true pie.

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But wait, there’s more! Doesn’t this pie look different than the final one I posted earlier? Great Scott, you’re right!

I removed all the extra gunk off the pie filling and only used the hexaberry pattern, sans a few manual berries on the edge of the pie. It looks much cleaner. Also, instead of using the word “pie,” I just used the symbol for Pi. imsofuckingclever.tiff

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Alright, well. That’s all, folks!