January 12 - Underdog

When criminals in this world appear
And break the laws that they should fear
And frighten all who see or hear
The cry goes up both far and near
For Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!

~ Underdog intro song

I was looking through some more photos from Florida Super Jam and noticed another design used a form similar to Juan's Superman - Underdog!  The photo's caption doesn't give specific credit, but Stacey Schmude and James (Mr Me) were holding up versions of it, so I'm not sure who came up with it.

It's sometimes hard to credit people.  For example, here is a design where to body was taught by Juan, customized by someone else to be Underdog, photo posted by another person entirely, but then I used a head style I learned from the amazing Linda Truscheit.  It's also pretty cool and collaborative even if inadvertent.

I tried a couple different head forms before settling on this one - I really love the shape of this style head, the gigantic eyes and the cheeks are what I believe the kids now are calling "adorbs".  It's based on the face form that Linda teaches when building her Soft Kitty (link), and she uses this head style so effectively with those big expressive eyes to add such fantastic personality to her amazing balloon art. She also takes wonderful pictures of her work and is a great person to try and emulate, you will be better for trying it.

That should be the next style/concept montage - "Truscheit-style".

There's no need to fear, under Underdog is here!

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