Melissa Scheu's Uploads

watercolor sketch across two 3 x 5 pages

Mixed media collage in progress.

Painting practice, playing with building and limiting my color palette. It's hard to do anything right now other than play with gouache.

Watercolor and gouache painting - practicing watercolor washes in the sketchbook

Practicing incorporating old scanned line art and digital painting!

Digital painting, inspired by last days of summer feelings.

Drawing Prompt Submission

Graphite drawing inspired by a photo of a shop in Venice, but with my own cats.

Drawing Prompt Submission

Another gouache painting with warm colors and an autumn theme

gouache painting of spring bulbs using spring colors and a limited palette. Gouache is so fun!

Digital drawing of the mythical elemental. Sketch in progress.

Digital drawing of the mythical elemental

A little grid of gouache paintings. I'm going to make these into stickers!

A little exercise in my sketchbook to create a non-narrative comic. Just graphite, digitally colored.

An illustration for a Grimm's Fairy Tale in a Moleskine notebook. This one is for a kind of obscure story called The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse. Just graphite.

Mockup for a personal project close to my heart - tarot cards.

Drawing Prompt Submission

Graphite drawing in a Moleskine notebook - illustration for Grimm's fairy tale. I'm posting both the raw graphite version and the one I painted in Photoshop b/c I never know which I end up liking better!

marker and colored pencil from the sketchbook

Mixed media drawing. The sky can spread oppressively across a flat landscape like the meadows of the midwestern United States. In this drawing I wanted to evoke that sense as a backdrop for a trio of Weirds, soothsayers of folklore.