And here is the final cover painting! After the final watercolurs were applied, as seen in the last post, I decided to paint over the drawing in the sky with gouache. My initial plan was to just add some highlights with gouache but I ended up over-painting a lot of it and I think for the better. The gouache phase of a painting is always amazing to me; the way all of the sudden these colours are popping and everything becomes so vibrant. It's an amazing medium. I prefer it over oil and acrylic, really.Top Shelf is already using it for promotion and I've already seen the comic mentioned in the same paragraph as Alan Moore, which is a real thrill.
Thanks so much for following along. More soon on the Adventures of the Flying Boat.
