Melissa Scheu's Uploads

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

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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.

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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.

WIP in the sketchbook. Colored pencil, feeling like Springtime

Mixed media (pretty much every type of pen/marker I have is in these somewhere). Recovering from surgery last month, slowly learning to sit upright again, thinking about flowers. :)

Watercolor practice inspired by a Jan Mankes painting and recent weather.

Illustration of street performers based on antique photo (https://phono-optica.tumblr.com/post/90103610273)

Missing people watching in public, and the smells and sounds of a coffeehouse. Pencil drawing with some digital painting.

Illustration from the sketchbook in gouache, based on a color palette.

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