January 31 - byJazmin

"Beauty will save the world."

~ Dosteovsky

ByJazmin is a fairly new DeviantArtist from Chile who had a beautiful glowing image of a character from Stephen Universe in her portfolio.  I'll be bummed if I ever find out Lapis is some kind of evil Cersei witch queen in the Stephen Universe ... universe.

She understood the soul of this project and delivered a magnificent representation in her how distinct style.   I love everything about it.

This is party night at 8pm when your favorite song just came on the radio. Also, party night at 2am when ... hic is ther .. hey lesh dance.

January 30 - JoItiks

"Don't Wish. Don't Start.
Wishing only wounds the heart."

~ Idena Menzel I'm Not That Girl

JoItiks is a DeviantArtist with a YCH offering of your character in a custom transparent bubble.

This would be like an Animal Farm fever dream of the Wizard of Oz, where Glenda the Good Hog is coming down to wave a magic wand to transfer the slippers to Dorothy's feet and really start the whole mess.  Why wouldn't she just give them back to the sister?  Or at least let the munchkin police book them as evidence until you can eliminate foul play on the house dropping.

January 29 - trash-empress

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

~ Alice - Alice in Wonderland

trash-empress (blog link) is a very long time DeviantArtist from the United States who offered to use our pig as inspiration in an abstract painting and I believe was inspired a bit by the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland if I judge the eyes correctly.

If one pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small (and the one that mother gives you doesn't do anything at all).  The pill size would have to be proportional.   Otherwise a tiny pig would have to eat the gigantic sized pill, or a humongous pig would have to eat the tiny spec that was the pill that made you small.   So by that fact alone, it should be obvious.

More likely there were 4 pills.  A tiny small to medium and a large to medium as insurance against whoever sprung the Russian roulette of a choice.   Hold on, was that the hidden lesson - if Alice had chosen correctly (the one Mother gave her) none of this "bad trip" would have happened?  Something to ponder the next time I'm high ...

January 28 - EvilMCQueen356

“Oh, he’s just a little bit shy, and he hates ya for killing his flowers.”

~ Mater, Cars

EvilMCQueen356, a DeviantArtist from Mexico - loves cars.  He had a idea of what to do with our pig and really ran with the idea at about 80 mph (but 10mpg).

So when you say "derrr -- is that a Ford?" to a car guy, when this *ahem* is so clearly and obviously a Dodge.  I felt like I did in 8th grade gym class with oversized gym shorts on.

After all, Dodge has a Ram and Viper -- why not a Dodge Purple Pig?

January 27 - Shadowstorm133

"My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!"

— (Smaug) J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Shadowstorm133 is a DeviantArtist from the United States that specializes in creating dragons, and was nice enough to use our pig as inspiration for their next creation.

This great beast had slumbered for years amidst the nest of scraps and nozzles in a cave at the top of Mount Tripp until it was disturbed one day by a small halfling by the name of Cremeens.

January 25 - IzzyFredpony

“People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.”

~ Luciano Pavarotti, Pavarotti My Own Story

IzzyFredpony is a DeviantArtist from the United States that really loves to draw - using commissions as a source for personal inspiration.  This is their creation of a "WOW!" page for our pig. 

This is the panel in the comic where the fourth wall is broken and the pig transcends, we zoom in on his eye, then his pupil, and he's cruising down a desert highway in a convertible with Hunter Thompson played by Matthew McConaughey, singing along with Depeche Mode "Personal Jesus" on the tape deck.   Allll right all right all right.

January 24 - Bibbin

A picture is a poem without words.

~ Horace

Bibbin is a DeviantArtist from Australia that had one of my favorite type of art commissions "Surprise me!" 🔥

This six legged, slavering, viciously spiked razor boar is territorial, but despite the apparent fierce demeanor quite docile unless threatened.  The serrated spikes on it's back are prized by the Anpak tribes, considered sacred to the people and used in many spiritual ceremonies.  It is a rite of passage into manhood for a young warrior to prove either his mettle in battle or his harmony with nature to fetch one of the spears.

January 22 - Mercurysfox

“Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he...I swear he takes a positive delight in it."

~ Frank Herbert Dune

Mercurysfox is a DeviantArtist from Sweden who dressed up our pig today.

This big fellows skin is grotesque in all the right ways, like the insect creature from Men In Black, you can practically feel it hanging loosely on him.  He's tied the balloons to himself, not in any absurd attempt at floating - but like Baron Harkonnen, just to offset his enormous girth to move around.