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

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Mixed media drawing in my sketchbook

pen and ink. For an eventual coloring book?

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

graphite, character from an imaginary folktale.

mixed media - marker finished in Photoshop

Graphite and some markers.

A personal mindfulness reminder in old timey cartoon style.

Drawing Prompt Submission

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Drawing Prompt Submission

Mixed media drawing of a genius loci - the protective spirit of a place. Part of an upcoming series for prints, cards, and stuff!

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

Drawing Prompt Submission

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

WIP in the sketchbook. Colored pencil, feeling like Springtime

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.

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

Unfinished drawing inspired by Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology.

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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!

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