The Rainbow Dash Band - Remastered

Book of Dreams was one of Steve Miller's most popular albums, and its iconic album art by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse was a big part of that. The rainbow-winged pegasus grew into an icon for the band, and anyone who sees it will remember fondly the sounds of Jet Airliner, Swingtown, Jungle Love, Winter Time, The Stake, and more. Rainbow Dash fills in for the iconic pegasus in this ponified version of a rock and roll classic.

You might be thinking "Wait, I've seen this before!" and you'd be right. I drew the original Rainbow Dash Band back in 2011 when season two was barely. A while back, I had suffered a major data loss on my primary workstation. Although 95% my stuff was backed up (thankfully!), I had lost one or two original versions of some things I did. This piece was one of the few originals that bit the dust, which meant no high res prints to hang on my wall.

While I am not a person to go back and re-do stuff that's already done, even if I hadn't lost this particular piece I probably would have given it the remastering treatment anyway. It had always bugged me that I kind of half-assed the original Rainbow Dash Band. I didn't do the piping on the backing circle, I didn't do the backing circle's colors or clouds right, I didn't add all the extra lighting effects that the original had, and most shameful, I didn't hand-letter a proper title. If I was going to redo it, I was going to do it right, damn it. I'm most proud of the piping, which adapts the FiM pegasus wings in place of Kelley and Mouse's iconic beetles. While it's not exactly perfect, it's a lot better than the zero piping I did before. The new version is more respectful and true to the original classic, which is an inspiration to me as an artist.