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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Graphite drawing with color in Photoshop.

Drawing Prompt Submission

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

Color study with marker and colored pencil

Sketchbook page inspired by a Midsummer Night's Dream, with Titania and the unnamed Boy. Markers n' pens.

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.

marker and colored pencil from the sketchbook

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

Digital drawing of the mythical elemental

super old doodle, colored for fun!

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

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Digital drawing of the mythical elemental. Sketch in progress.

Drawing Prompt Submission

Illustration for a coloring book I'm working on.

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Lineart for my cheeseburger coloring book in the works

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

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.

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

Unfinished drawing inspired by Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology.

Drawing Prompt Submission

acrylic practice on canvas paper.

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