Hand-Painted Cartoon Starter

### 1. The medium is solid: brush strokes, flat 2D, boil

- **Paint everything with p5.brush through `paint()` and `inkLine()`.** Characters get flat `wash` colour plus an ink outline. Backgrounds get soft watercolour `fill` shapes, usually with no outline or a thin one. Never use plain p5 shapes (`rect`, `ellipse`, `fill()`): they look like 2000s Flash.
- **The linework boils.** `jit()` and `random()` are reseeded 12 times a second (`BOIL`), so every drawing wobbles slightly, like hand-drawn animation. That's the look; don't fight it. For anything that must stay put from frame to frame (star positions, tuft heights), use `hash(i)`. Give each separate element its own seed with `boilSeed(key)` (see Engine), or one moving thing makes everything drawn after it jitter.
- **Everything is flat 2D. Never project 3D.** Don't rotate a box in perspective, don't use `rotateY` or WEBGL 3D and don't fake depth with math. Clawd turns through **drawn key views** (front → 3/4 → side → back 3/4 → back), exactly like a cartoon model sheet: see `turn()` and `spinView()`. Depth comes from overlap, scale and colour (farther = smaller, bluer, paler), never from a projection.
- **Light is the one exception.** p5.brush mixes colour like pigment, so a yellow glow painted over blue turns green, and a thin wash over it turns grey. Use `glow()` for anything that shines: it adds real light, under the paper grain.
- **Soft palette, no pure black or white.** Use `PAL.ink` for black and `PAL.cream` or `PAL.paper` for white. Keep colours soft and harmonious, and keep Clawd clearly readable against the background.

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### 2. No text

- **Show it, don't write it.** Models overuse text. No captions, no titles, no labels on objects, no signs, no speech bubbles with words, no words on screens, no "ZZZ" typed in a font.
- **Clawd's reactions are painted marks, never letters**: `!`, `?`, zzz, sweat, hearts, a bulb, a rain cloud. Use the emotes (see the reference).
- **A sign that repeats the story is the classic failure.** If Clawd holds a sign saying "I'm lost", the shot has failed. Show Clawd being lost: looking left, then right, the map upside down, a sweat drop.
- If the prompt truly needs a word (a name, a shop sign that is the joke), use `letter()`. Paint it into the scene, keep it to one or two words and use it once.

From John Heibel's repo, under the MIT license.

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