Honey Badger Coming Your Way

After a months break I finally opened my sketchbook again. The result, … a bunch of honey badgers. If you have been following me for a while you might remember my previous honey badger phase. I think it is time to activate it again!

2407 Be like Honey badger sketches _ Melanie Franz
2407 Be like Honey badger sketches _ Melanie Franz
2407 Be like Honey badger sketches _ Melanie Franz

Back from a break

Had a creative break last month and I am now ready to start again full force!

The only “art” I created were these unicorn invitations in collaboration with my friend’s 5 year old daughter.

Unicorn invitation _ Melanie Franz

Dancing into the weekend

Here they all are, the blue-footed boobies, dancing their mating dance. I will also upload them to my Etsy shop as downloadable prints next week if you would like to put them on your wall.

Blue Feet

Alright, I finally get a chance to use this beautiful blue ink. It took a while but I am finally adding the blue feet to the blue-footed Boobies!

Party Bunny

Saw this photo of this cute rabbit and really wanted to draw him. Then I felt like adding a party hat…

Hat or no hat, that is the question? What do you think?

A3 Poster Party Animal Bunny Rabbit ink drawing party hat_Melanie Franz

Fun with Dogs

Have been messing around with the finished dog drawings to turn them into posters for my Etsy shop…. One idea was to dress them up… or to put funny hats on them… For now I only have them as curious animal prints.

What do you think?

Finished Book Page

Here we go. It still needs some retouching and editing but this is the raw version for now. And of course the text is missing.

What do you think? Comments and criticism more than welcome.

I will let it rest for now and tackle some of the other book pages I am still unhappy about. Or I procrastinate and draw some more random animals for my Etsy shop... tempting! I am adding new designs daily. Go and check them out 😉

Drawing in progress…

Here is the full page. Not quite satisfied with their faces in the bottom part. But will finish and then possibly do again.

Happy 1st of May!

Madame Woof Woof_ink drawing dog Labrador illustration process _ Melanie Franz

Back to Work

I finally got over my creative block, related to my book project, AND I fixed page 2 which had been bugging me for the last 3 months! So far I am quite happy with the result.

Here is a sneak peak of the work in progress.

Blue feet still missing

Finished inking this little fella. Still need to add the blue fee, to make the blue-footed booby complete.

ink drawing blue footed booby _ Melanie Franz

Current status of my desk as bonus.

ink drawing desk status _ Melanie Franz

Apparently Blue-footed Boobies are a thing

and quite popular. I only discovered these funny looking birds last week. As I am still procrastinating from other things, I felt like drawing a second one of these funny creatures.

2404 blue footed booby ink drawing _ Melanie Franz

Life is Better Upside Down

It’s been only two weeks since the last aerial hoop class, but I already miss hanging upside down in the air! Need to make sure I get to the studio on Friday.

Until then I am having fun with more poster designs for my Etsy shop.

Who else likes hanging upside down in the air?

Hello there! Part 2

Nice to have a break from drawing dogs and teddy bears and try new animals. After my lama sketches the other day, here a finished lama drawing.

Sunny greetings from the rock!

2404 Lama ink animal drawing _ Melanie Franz

Hello there!

On my Pinterest search for inspiration and odd animals I came across this fella. A Blue-footed booby! Blue feet will follow!

So I am still procrastinating, avoiding my book project, by drawing other animals.. It could be worse I guess.

Off to the pool! Have a great weekend!

Don’t overthink it.

Poster design and motto of today. After I had a good two weeks run working on my book project I think I hit one of those micro pits of despair again. It kind of feels like I am out of drawing energy. So I have been doing something else until I get my mojo back.

Was playing around with a few new poster designs for my Etsy shop. They will be up by the end of the week. And I have been drawing more lamas… Maybe I’ll add them too.

2404 Dont overthink it_Shoebills stork ink drawing poster design_ Melanie Franz

Something different

Suddenly felt the urge to draw lamas. Inspired by my daughters sweater. I thought their funny faces might make for a fun poster design.

Which one is your favourite?