December 31 - Tasmanian Pig

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

~ Neil Gaiman

Everyone should be expecting this by now - but this purple pig uses that Tasmanian form from the recent Buster Balloon Christmas download that came with pre-order of his calendar.  I'm not sure if it will be available in some form in the future, you will have to contact Buster to see.

I tried something different with the mouth/tongue on this guy, it gave him a nice cavernous area - perfect for teeth.

... and there we have it.  The end of year two for this blog.   It's hard to imagine that this "let me play with this blogger phone app" experiment has grown to over 700 posts with 27+ different purple pigs this year alone.

But this year in particular has been in particular enjoyable and great practice/exercise building within the structure of a balloon design idea.   There were concepts that would start with no clue what to build and end up with no clue how to fit it all in. 

What I appreciated most about the limitation (if you can call it that) of building to a style, the hard structural part is over and you have to just "make it work".   This is a powerful tool to keep in your bag, the ability to abstract out a design within a framework - a level up from being able to build anything.  The ability to build anything in an infinite number of ways. 

Where now?  What does the future have in store for the Daily Purple Pig?

What's behind the door, the lady or the tiger?

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