Melissa Scheu's Uploads

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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Just a sketch in progress from the sketchbook.

mixed media - marker finished in Photoshop

A personal mindfulness reminder in old timey cartoon style.

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A little painting exercise in Photoshop inspired by Gustav Klimt and the month of November.

Unfinished drawing inspired by Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology.

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Digital painting

Mixed media drawing in my sketchbook

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WIP, illustration of Norse goddess of the underworld, Hel. For fun and for spooooky Halloween.

Graphite and marker. Trading card size, fish in Regency era costume.

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A cafe that makes only baked goods with berries, staffed only by bears. Mostly marker, with felt tip pen and a little finishing in Photoshop.

Fun with gouache! While I was painting this, I learned that "scumble"/"scumbling" are words used to describe the action of dry brush painting, so my detective's name is Scumbles.