Planet of the Abes

Did you know they still sell music? In STORES too! Its true. In fact, today is National Record Store Day. STL’s Vintage Vinyl put together a record to promote it called “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” with original music by the store’s employees and friends, and they asked local artists to make some original covers for the LPs. Here’s my contribution…

Since it’s probably too difficult to read here, I’ll just say it tells the story of a guy quitting his job, getting drunk, getting into more and more trouble till he’s broke and hospitalized, and has to go back to his job. Oh, life.

They’re doing some in-store promotions and stuff today so swing by if you get a chance.

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I spent about an hour driving on Big Bend yesterday so I started on this tacky landscape and got about this far before Stephanie took over…

See if you can spot the difference!

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Stephanie got me Corel Painter a while back, but I just finally got a laptop that can handle it without pausing 20 seconds between every brushstroke. It's pretty fun, but there are a LOT of options for media/brushes. Too many. They should make graphics software like video games and make you unlock everything one at a time. No gradients till you beat the Pen Tool level! Also, when you think you've finished it, you should have to play the whole thing again, but upside-down! That one's free Adobe.

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