This Artist Creates Adorably Weird Figurines Out Of Clay

With a degree in graphic design, McKenny tucked her artistic offshoots away. But after some gentle prodding from a friend, “The urge to sculpt kept coming in little bursts until I broke down and bought some clay and have been messing around with it ever since,” she writes in an email.

“I didn't know that anyone would actually want to trade cash monies for my sculptures," she says, "but it tickled me that they did!”

Having completed a whale shark for a National Geographic researcher, one of McKenny’s next commissions is a space-themed creation for a NASA researcher.

To make them, first she builds an armature out of tin foil and wire, giving each petite creation a sturdy skeleton that's also light and prevents the creature from cracking when it's cured in the oven. Gloss or painted details are added depending on the piece.

After McKenny posted the snails, Bento Box Entertainment — the studio behind Bob's — reposted it from their accounts and requested a set.

Describing her brain as "twisted and whimsical," McKenny says she can't pinpoint where the idea came from because "those sorts of things just kind of squish around in there all the time."

And that's led to her bringing the Adventure Time cast to three dimensions.

And his piggy compatriot.

Like this gathering of frogmuffins.

It's OK to give inanimate objects belly rubs, right?

Feel free to dissolve from the cuteness.

We won't ask where he got his gold toof from.

They need a lot of water.

Owl be seeing you later!

He's still singeing Kleenexes when he sneezes, but it'll get better.

Or her website, Simon Says Macy.