April 27 - Sneetches

But McBean was quite wrong. I'm quite happy to say
The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day,
The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches
And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches.
That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars
And whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

~ Dr. Seuss The Sneetches

These Sneetches were made with Eric Weinstein's Sweet Cheeks method.

I made a few attempts at the head before settling on what is here, I almost gave up but had to remind myself that a balloon concept is never going to be a perfect representation of a design, and is really a vehicle to get you past that initial road block to creation - a simple version of something that requires you to reduce a design to a minimal state and build up from there. What is a Sneetch? A humanoid-ish chubby bodied bird, with a whisp of hair and perhaps a star on it's tummy.

Dr. Seuss designs are a fun thing to experiment with, they are very stylized and a great candidate for distortions. My first attempt with the longer torso did just that. I simplified things with the second and made a chubby body similar to the 'Little Guy' concept.

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