Just a first attempt to come up with a vector-based character for Mama Monkey…. also an exercise in learning Illustrator, as the idea for the graphic came from the following tutorial:
Vectips Create a Cute Panda tutorial
If I use it, I will make it smaller… add a body, and make a corresponding “Greg” character. Probably won’t use the radial background, either, but it looked good in the tutorial so I grabbed it for this as well. Here’s Mama Monkey in her monkey costume:
Eek, just realized how different it looks on a different monitor… going to have to make the “smile lines” less gray… but rather than be a perfectionist at the moment, I’ll get back to it if I decide to use this motif. 
