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.

Unfinished drawing inspired by Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology.

Digital drawing of the mythical elemental

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.

Mixed media collage in progress.

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

Drawing Prompt Submission

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

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

Drawing Prompt Submission

Just a sketch in progress from the sketchbook.

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

Drawing Prompt Submission

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.

Digital painting, inspired by last days of summer feelings.

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

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