March 18 - Other Little Bodies

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Here shows some of the versatility of Stephanie Morace's Little Body balloon base.

The baseball player was one example she showed us, I thought I would play around with a few others.

Adding a mustache to the keystone cop I thought had good effect and made the jaw really pronounced.   I wish I had opted for a "grr face" on the soldier and less prominent ears - it's a bit Beetle Bailey as it stands.

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Other Stephanie Morace inspired balloons:

March 17 - Little Body Leprechaun

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

~ Dalai Lama

I've had this post archived and saved for a long while now (Since March 17, 2021 actually).  Stephanie Morace created her "Little Body" design and shared it in the first Qualatex online balloon convention, but since she was considering releasing it as a downloadable, I didn't want to step on her doing that by posting variations.

Here's Little Body Leprechaun, super-duper tight pinch twists giving a bit of a clover look.

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Other balloons like this:

February 25 - wafflefriies

“Life is long and art a toy”

~ Antonio Machado

wafflefriies is a recent DeviantArtist who I imagine was playing around with commissions probably wondering "what does this button do".  Surprise!  Wanna build a purple pig?

But then moments later I received my own, "Suprise!  sure!"

This is probably a perfect design for an oven mitt.  It actually kind of reminds me a bit of a finger puppet toy, or maybe a teether for a baby if it was hard plastic.

February 24 - PixelDutchie

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

~ Carol Burnett

PixelDutchie is a DeviantArt artist from the United States that had a very colorful badge commission and volunteered to see what she could do with our pig as inspiration.

One wonderful thing about DeviantArt is you can sometimes see the artistic evolution of someone in their gallery.  PixelDutchie just really blossomed as an artist, some of the most recent images she has done are fantastic - her most recent is my favorite, though I may be a bit biased. :)

This looks like a teen pig, proud because his spikes are finally coming in, not realizing that this means acne as well...

Februrary 23 - ZacharyVasquez

Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.

~ Molly Crabapple

ZacharyVasquez is a DeviantArtist from the United States that offered to sketch up today's tough guy.

This is the sinister look you see in an anthropomorphized pig down a dark alley and start questioning your life choices and whether or not you will ever eat bacon again.

February 22 - LarkinCrowley

"My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions."

~ Zach Galifianakis

LarkinCrowley is a DeviantArtist from Mexico that offered to make our character in what he referred to as "headshot style".  I love these craaaazy anime eyes, practically hypnotic.  

With the drool though, I'm imagining he's not the smartest pig. Instead of twisting a balloon animal, it's twisting a bunch of sausage links ... and maybe even his friends.   Tell me again about the rabbits George...

February 21 - Lore-of-Lyndz

MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!

~ Lewis Black

Lore-of-Lyndz is a professional DeviantArtist from South Africa who specializes in vector illustrations and bringing characters to life, which he certainly did with this chunky boi!

Please note that it is a bag of carrots he is eating, and not the deep fried flesh of his barnyard buddy.  By the way, has anyone seen Mr. Clucks?

February 20 - papillon-ib

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

~ Christopher Reeve

papillon-ib is a Turkish DeviantArtist who enjoys creating original characters, a perfect person to contact.  

IG:  @papillon.ib 

Bobby was just your normal everyday average teenager when he discovered the toy pig tucked away on a shelf in the attic.  He barely even felt it when he grabbed and gave the toy a soft squeeze, but his hair became balloons and he was changed forever.  Equipped with the power of latex, he and his trusty sidekick Little P, stand for justice as one of the galaxy's great porcine defenders!

February 19 - CremeS0dAA

Boba bubbles pop,
Soothing tea warms the soul,
Heaven in a cup.

~ AI Generated Haiku

CremeS0dAA is a DeviantArtist from Canada and they offered an interesting if somewhat bizarre YCH commission to be in a boba tea drink.  As fascinated as I was by the prompt, I was doubly blown away by this shiny mascot and what could just as easily be a brand label.

Whoever had disco dancing rainbow purple pig in boba tea on their bingo card can go ahead and cross that off.

February 18 - HikariNOSora

Andy's Mom (chatting offscreen): Andy's going to college. Can you believe it?
Andy: Mom, I'm not leaving 'til Friday.
Andy's Mom: What are you going to do with these old toys?

~ Toy Story 3

HikariNOSora is a DeviantArtist from Indonesia that loves drawing comics and animals, this is her awesome take on our pig hero.  Adorabubble!

"Ok guys!  Our mission is to find and rescue Mr. Tumpkins from the sandbox before the 3rd graders come out the play.  We have three minutes left of recess and most of the sand tools have been checked out already.  What the play here?"

February 17 - lilinx212

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence.
The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”

~ Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

lilinx212 is a DeviantArtist from the United States who provided todays downtrodden bad-boy of a pig.

"They say working the beat in this town is enough to grind anyone down to their hamhocks, but when you're a cop who is also literally a pig, you don't catch any breaks.  This case had been gnawing at me for weeks, and I couldn't shake the feeling that I was missing something important.  Who is the balloon man?"

February 16 - Badger-shade

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

~ Oscar Wilde

Badger-shade is a recent DeviantArtist that offered to make a colored "Lizerb face creature" and had a bunch of cute an simple portfolio samples.

I honestly just thought they were going to color one of the lizerbs and not completely redraw it in a funky new style, with different head angles and expressions and THEN to also send this extra badboy with his six-pack of murderous shark-fin spikes.  Crushing it.

February 15 - CharuNikkoo

A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I

~ Pink Floyd Learning To Fly

CharuNikkoo is a professional DeviantArtist from Malaysia who has taken our pig to new heights, quite literally.   I'm not entirely sure why he left the balloons black and white, it gives a bit of an unfinished look to an awesome drawing of a pig about to plummet to it's death flying.

February 14 - YokoKaneko

Gummy Bear? They've been in my pocket. They're real warm and soft.

~ Ferris Bueller's Day Off

YokoKaneko is a DeviantArtist from Poland who made this in to something that I think we can coin a new term from -- "adorabubble".  I don't even think you would cook it, I think you would pop it into your mouth and it would taste like a gummy bear.

February 13 - GrumpySableye

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.

~ Susan Sontag

GrumpySableye is a Canadian DeviantArtist and an avid user of the site with over 500 deviations in just over a year.  He offered to make a simple head-shot icon.

The samples were on black background so I went ahead and paint bucketed this one up to match.  The purple was too light against the white.

February 12 - Intheez

They warned you, "Stay Away"
We whisper, "Come and play."
Now you're here, then why not stay
At the Darkmoon Faire?

 ~Madness at the Darkmoon Fair

Intheez is a DeviantArtist from Italy who designed this next wicked creation.  The hoodie with ears and the spiked shoulderpads were a really smart way to capture the essential elements -- all in all it presents the chilling image of a side alley in the undead carnival.   

February 11 - ChocaCrow

“A monster lies in wait in me,
A stew of wounds and misery,
But fiercer still in life and limb,
The me that lies in wait in him.”

~ Clive Barker

ChocaCrow is a very active DeviantArtist and hobbyist from the United States that offered to use her style and our purple pig.

This one to me has that feeling of a monster school, and this is one of the toughies there, crackin' her knuckles about to put the beat down on some lower classmate to teach a lesson to all her peers.