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 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!

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.

Drawing Prompt Submission

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

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.

Mixed media collage in progress.

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!

Unfinished drawing inspired by Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology.

Digital drawing of the mythical elemental

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.

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

Drawing Prompt Submission

Drawing Prompt Submission

Just a sketch in progress from the sketchbook.

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

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

Graphite drawing inspired by a photo of a shop in Venice, but with my own cats.

Digital painting, inspired by last days of summer feelings.

Drawing Prompt Submission

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.

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