This is the official album artwork for my song Hooked on Faux-nics as part of the 2023 Music Secret Santa event.

I really don't know what I wanted to do here, but I wanted something fun, and my brain gravitated towards monkeys. I got to experiment with paint.NET's "grid warp" plugin a bit, which was cool.

The drumset consists of a basic set of drums with several monkeys overlaid on them:

• Drums Tools Percussion by AlLes
• Gorilla Silverback Ape by Sponchia
• Monkey Eyes Animal by a_m_o_u_t_o_n
• Gorilla Monkey Ape by imranhussain1343431
• Animal Ape Gorilla by Pexels
• Monkey Orangutan Animal by 263582
• Monkeys Baby Monkey Barbary by Alexas_Fotos
• Ape Äffchen Cute by Alexas_FotosBarbary Macaque Threatend Species by Alexas_Fotos

The background is a composite of a water surface with a seaside rock formation:

• Water Swimming Pool Wave by CharlesRondeau
• Fountain Swimming Pool Rocks by Hans

The man is just some guy I found. Fashion Man Model Crossed by Virat_Maurya. I originally wanted someone in the cross-sticks "drummer pose" but I found this man and it looked way funnier so I went with him. And definitely not because I'm in a time crunch and cannot afford to commission artwork right now.

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