This was the choice. Tropical hoppy thing, music based name, gorgeous can (got cool texture and spot UV stuff going on). He’d be into it.

Bonus blurry picture of dad with mic and keys being very sensible in a Tams & Coope gig (just before a paper-tearing solo)

Still miss you, Dad. Gonna go look for a nice beer to raise to you in a bit. Wish you could be here to hear it, but keeping singing anyway.

I took it home with me after he’d gone, made a new mic bobble to replace the one that had gone missing over the years, and now it live in my office, along with my own mic and keyboard.

because why keep silly merch of a fandom you don’t even know?

But at the end I spotted it was on the bookshelves in his room. He’d kept it over 20 years.

I don’t think he knew what it was (I barely did) but a keys playing AND singing dragon made me think of him too much not to get it for him. As the years passed and I grew up, I always assumed he had gotten rid of it…

Them!! Also this pose is so nice!

It was so cute, it makes me very happy :)

I didn’t have as set an avatar at the time, so real me XD

It feels like mostly a play to undercut Adobe to be honest. An absolutely knives out manoeuvre.

The Arbrevyn stuff has been the first album I’ve laid out in a fully Affinity+Procreate workflow and it’s been really nice. Please don’t mess up a good thing Canva

They did at least explicitly say they don’t train on your work, and you can hide the AI stuff but yeahhhh, saddening

Sometimes the universe hands you an opportunity to make something happen and you gotta take it