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A few months ago my friend Adele from Dellie's Designs created an adorable little desk buddy download for her Patreon, as chronicled in this studio vlog here. It was ridiculously adorable. Then last month she released it new one.  It was also ridiculously adorable. And it was when I saw the second one, that I had an idea.  One of my monsters would look utterly fantastic as a desk buddy.  So I reached out to Adele and asked her permission to copy her idea.  And because she's a lovely, lovely person, she said yes. So I drew Guy. And then I drew Guy's back. And then I played about with him a bit, and did some prototyping, and came up with this. He is, as I predicted, utterly fantastic.  And I decided you should all get to have a Guy on your desk too.  So I made a free printable. You can download a full size image for printing, right here on my store for absolutely nothing. If you make one, please let me know :-)

Have you seen those reels where artists do a simple drawing in white paint pen, then outline it and make it look like a really cool neon effect? Like this one by NashVibes Art   View this post on Instagram A post shared by NashVibes Art (@nashvibes_art) Or this one, by Gaspi Mendoza   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gaspi Mendoza | Artist Oh My God (@artistomgofficial) The process looks fairly simple: white drawing on black paper, outline with a light version of a colour, then again with a darker version of that colour.  So that's what I did.               Except it didn't look quite right.  It's okay I guess, but I wanted to do better.  Maybe the white wasn't thick or consistent enough?  Maybe the blues weren't contrasting enough?  So I got out some more paint pens.                     Even if I accepted the neon bi...

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