Painting the Cover for The Alchemist of Aurillia Vol 1.

We've done the sketch, now it's time to paint!

Hey there cool kid,

Last time we talked about how I did about 80 million sketches for the cover of The Alchemist of Aurillia Volume 1 to get it just right. The effort paid off because we were left with a solid concept that we made into some nice blue lines, printed onto watercolor paper, and then inked over to give us our linework.

The Many Sketches of This Blasted Cover

Normally, I use alcohol based Copic markers to make my colored illustrations, but I have been branching out to work with other mediums. Initially I thought I might take up oil painting, but I’ve been having so much ding dang fun with watercolors! I decided I wanted to do a watercolor painting for the cover of this book so that I could practice my skills and make something really special.

So lets see how we got there!