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title: "Purple Puppies"
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Purple Puppies are a unique kind of puppy characterized by purple fur, a white muzzle, short snout, large head, long ears, and short limbs and tail.
Actually, they are roughly based on a pair of hand puppets given to my sister and a friend's baby a year before I was born on a flight from the US to Singapore.
These hand puppets became my favourite toy as a baby and then when I grew up I adopted them as my personal mascot and drew a bunch of original artwork.

# Photos

![Purple Puppy with me as a baby.](Purplepuppy05.jpg)

# Vector artwork

I drew these with Inkscape.

![Purple Puppy 3/4 view](oblique.svg)

![Tilted Purple Puppy](tilted.svg)

![Purple Puppy laying down for belly rubs](laying.svg)

![Purple Puppy playing ping pong](pingpong.svg)

![Purple Puppy sipping on bubble tea](bubbletea.svg)

![Purple Puppy sailing on a ship](ship.svg)

![Purple Puppy driving a Porsche 356 A Speedster](porsche.svg)

![Sleeping Purple Puppy](sleeping.svg)

![Purple Puppy studying chess endgames](chess.svg)

![Awoo](awoo.svg)

![Sploot](sploot.svg)

![Purple snek](snek.svg)

# 3D model

The 3D model was made in Rhinoceros.

:: STL file pup.stl

![Purple Puppy 3/4 view](pup3d_0.png)

![Purple Puppy 3/4 view with clay model](pup3d_1.png)

![Purple Puppy with tiny clay model](pup3d_2.png)

![Small 3D printed model](https://i.dllu.net/2023-08-12-18-18-51_DSCF1390_3cb3b9d6ddc3c84a4c41560e845ebbbd304849ec_80c7c53f7b020ee9.jpg)

![Slightly bigger 3D printed model](https://i.dllu.net/2023-10-07-11-26-31_DSCF2310_b6c9b957a8c796b3222d2026279072b49e5100b4_9ae0c28a304cab98.jpg)

# Concepts

![Hairy Purple Puppy](hairy.png)

![Some poses](poses.png)

# Paintings

![Artist's impression of a Purple Puppy.](purplepuppy1.jpg)

![Acrylic](DSC07933.jpg)

![Acrylic](painting.jpg)

![iPad digital painting at the Apple store](https://i.dllu.net/2018-04-29-00-19-26_DSC04312_0660f2ffbe1cc99463fe3f338b02253ffc6ee5af_7924e3b93e677bfd.jpg)

# Cake

![Puppy cake](cake.jpg)

# Keyboard

![Puppy keyboard (Vortex Pok3r)](keyboard.jpg)

# Big stuffed animal

I commissioned a big stuffed animal from a website called Budsies.
It cost a lot and the quality is meh (the tail fell off and the shape is generally way flatter/blobbier than I intended).
But still pretty cute overall.

![My large stuffed animal in my San Francisco apartment in 2020](https://i.dllu.net/2020-03-25-19-17-53_DSCF5145_0e5af5df251566a9aa676f1abb5645a536735c6e_ebcccf5ac84af14f.jpg)

![On the couch](https://i.dllu.net/2024-11-30-15-01-16_DSCF3002_a5b6f642368d39736f94baae6a7b45fd7a3db023_1ba8f47e21691b17.jpg)

![With Nono the pomeranian](https://i.dllu.net/2024-09-29-16-55-28_DSCF2254_89155b6806319d008463b398d7d531d851fb8823_94e41a36a7db5226.jpg)