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This is a capuchin monkey - a white-faced capuchin monkey, to be specific. I tried to find out what the "generic monkey" you see in all of the cartoons is, but I have yet to find any specific species that actually matches up with that one. The closest I can come up with is the spider monkey. But I think capuchins are cuter, so when I want to draw a random monkey, I gravitate towards capuchins instead.

One more thing that's interesting about capuchins - a study done at Yale a few years ago demonstrated that they (unlike many members of another certain simian species - you know who you are ) don't assume that a more expensive item is necessarily of a higher quality. (Source: scitechdaily.com/unlike-people… .)

Drawn with a pencil and paper, brightness and contrast adjusted with GIMP.

Description
This is a capuchin monkey - a white-faced capuchin monkey, to be specific. I tried to find out what the "generic monkey" you see in all of the cartoons is, but I have yet to find any specific species that actually matches up with that one. The closest I can come up with is the spider monkey. But I think capuchins are cuter, so when I want to draw a random monkey, I gravitate towards capuchins instead.

One more thing that's interesting about capuchins - a study done at Yale a few years ago demonstrated that they (unlike many members of another certain simian species - you know who you are ) don't assume that a more expensive item is necessarily of a higher quality. (Source: scitechdaily.com/unlike-people… .)

Drawn with a pencil and paper, brightness and contrast adjusted with GIMP.