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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Melissa Scheu's Uploads

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.

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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!

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

Drawing Prompt Submission

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

Mixed media collage in progress.

Digital drawing of the mythical elemental

Drawing Prompt Submission

Started as the weekly prompt, but I kinda wandered off track. So instead of drawing yin and yang in opposing colors like I sat down to do, the B-Team happened in secondary colors!

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.

Marker, gel pen and digital. Just my own character!

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

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

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. :)