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illustration-grainy-gouache

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Draws original cosy animal scenes as hand-authored SVG cards (480x360) in a grainy gouache, risograph-like style. Identifying traits are flat shapes with no outlines on a hot-pink card; soft 3-4 stop gradient shading on every rounded form, darker toward edges and base; a fine dark multiply grain that gathers at each shape's edges; a chalky purple-pink shadow pooled under the group; and big glossy eyes with cream star highlights, framed by grained autumn leaves and sparse cream sparkles. It covers design and coding moments with one cute animal at a laptop, monitor, desk, window, mug or book stack. Use when someone asks for grainy, gouache, riso, risograph, textured, cosy, cozy, autumn, hygge, storybook or children's-book style animal art, or for an empty state, onboarding step, 404 page, blog header, feature spot or marketing card with a warm handmade feel.

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# Illustration: Grainy gouache

A warm editorial style: one cute animal doing a design or coding thing, painted in flat, outline-free shapes that are softly shaded and dusted with fine dark grain, on a saturated hot-pink card with cream sparkles and falling autumn leaves. Use it where a product wants warmth and charm: empty states, onboarding, seasonal blog headers, "we're working on it" pages.

Boundary: for clean flat vector with no texture and no animals, use `illustration-flat`. For a hand-inked critter with hatching and googly eyes on white, use `illustration-ink-sketch`. For people with inked outlines, use `illustration-outlined-cartoon`. This style has no human cards; if a brief needs a person, use one of those instead.

Extracted from a set of 42 original design-and-coding cards in 14 styles; the three cards in examples/ are this style's shipped cards.

## The look in one sentence

Outline-free shapes, each filled with a soft light-to-dark gradient and then speckled with a fine dark grain that thickens toward the shape's edges and into its shadows, sitting on hot pink #FF81BE with a chalky purple pool beneath.

Remove the edge-gathered grain and it becomes plain flat vector; change the pink and it stops belonging to the set.
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