I have a toxic trait: If you ask me about my favourite cover, it’s my most recent cover.
But really!! I swear, this is it.
For a variety of reasons, but if I had to pick one, it would be that I put brush to paint to canvas for this one. Maybe it's the Turpentine fumes, but oil painting makes me feel some kinda way.
This cover is a mix of pencil + oil paint + watercolour + gold foil + procreate. I tried to capture progress along the way but I usually struggle with that. Both because it's a bit embarrassing for my artistic ego, but also because once I‘m in a flow state I could be getting a call from the lead singer of the Christian emo band I grew up with totally obsessed with, and I wouldn’t pick up (I'm just kidding Matthew Theissen, I'd drop everything I was doing).
This is a reminder of how my perfect long-legged brilliant best friend's creative vision brings out the best in me.