Well, I couldn't really think of too many pixel inflation ideas to do, but I did have the idea of recreating the Blimp Yoshi render from Super Mario Galaxy 2 in a pixel style, so I went ahead and tried it out. And it didn't turn out that bad to be honest! I'm honestly pretty proud of the shading I did here, as well as making a custom sprite of Yoshi's back saddle, and his tail being kinda big of course. The palette I used for Blimp Yoshi here comes from the Doraemon 4 SNES game, which had some good shades of blue to use for Blimp Yoshi here, since I couldn't think of any other SNES games that used a light blue palette. Mario's arms are also custom here, though I feel like it's the only off looking thing since it looks longer than usual. And besides this inflation piece, perhaps I could try doing the Dash Yoshi and Bulb Yoshi renders in this style? Though for now, I'm at least glad I got this done.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 & Super Mario World are developed & owned by Nintendo.
Super Mario is owned by Nintendo.