Hello, my name is Melissa Scheu,
and I'm a doodle addict. Michigan

A freelance artist living and working in Michigan. My blog @ inkpaperstring.com follows everything I'm doing in my studio, updated twice weekly.

I specialize in doodling, drawing, illustration, painting.

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Mixed media collage in progress.

pen and ink. For an eventual coloring book?

graphite WIP, illustration of a mythological prophetic bird-woman from Slavic folklore.

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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. :)

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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!

Practicing incorporating old scanned line art and digital painting!

Started as a doodle while I was listening to a podcast on the history of gin! Just graphite.

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watercolor sketch across two 3 x 5 pages

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Digital painting

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

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

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.

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

Another gouache painting with warm colors and an autumn theme

Digital painting, inspired by last days of summer feelings.

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