Looking for another last minute Christmas present?
I finished project #2. My first own little story about the adventures of Francis Fox. Join him on his quest to take the perfect picture.
The book is available here as paperback or eBook.
Happy 4th Advent!
So I thought after the capybara colouring book was so well received, that I would put some of my old and brand new Mr Fox drawings together in a colouring book.
I have been playing around with cover designs on Affinity publisher, but with way too many colour and font choices, picking one is difficult. So I narrowed it down to these 4. Which one is your favourite? Take part in the poll below.
Thank you 🙂
Another character sketch. Would you ever consider a spider as a pet? Me certainly not!
I really like sketching these wild dogs. I am also experimenting with different outlines and pencils. So far I like the result. Only the paper quality was not the best. Will change that for the next drawing.
A friend gave me the book Solo the Story of an African Wild Dog by Hugo Van Lawick.
I knew nothing about wild dogs beforehand. Absolutely loved the story which is a description of a pack of wild dogs and in particular the story of Solo, one of the cubs.
I only learned that the story of Solo is somewhat famous after reading the book. I certainly had fun sketching this little dog.
After I felt like I was doing so well with my posting habits throughout October I fell into somewhat of a slump the last week. I have been focusing on drawing and several online are courses that I am taking at the moment instead.
I finished all of the Inktober prompts, however, I am not really happy how the last 3 turned out as I rushed them, so I haven’t posted them yet.
Here are all the other ones that I am quite happy with. I ended up with 33 drawings even with the last 3 missing as I did more than one drawing on some of the days.
Do you have a favourite?
Monday once again. Random post update. Time to activate your inner honey badger.
This guy is also part of the Honey Badger Collection on Society 6.
Continuation of introducing the Adventures of the Little Fly.
Something was different in the garden of the little fly. The flowers seemed to let their heads hang and also the bees flew slower than usual.
I have been drawing a lot and because of that completely neglected all of my social media. I really need to find a balance.
I am currently in the process of creating a proper portfolio for children’s book illustrations, and I have been working on a few new drawings and techniques with watercolour, ink and pencils.
I am also in the process to finish my first own book, with the main character being the one and only, Mr Fox! More about that soon.
Meanwhile Mr Fox assists Mr Mouse to dig a hole in the forest… He hopes to find a hidden treasure somewhere.
I am also looking for first names for Mr Fox and Mr Mouse. Any suggestions are more than welcome!
Have a great week!
Mr Fox in colour. Currently having the pleasure to be staying with an artist who gave me free hand to roam through her art supplies.
I started to sketch and tried different mediums which I haven’t used before, which is fantastic.
One result of these explorations is this little colourful version of Mr Fox, drawn with Caran d’ache oil crayons.
I can totally see myself illustrating an entire children’s book with these crayons. Love how vibrant they are.
Art supply shops are like candy shops. You go in to buy the one thing you want and walk out with a bag of goodies instead. I treated myself to a fountain pen and new nibs for drawing. Plus a ton of different papers and pencils.
First fountain pen trial.
Tried something else for today´s warm up sketch. Inspired by the photo of Elliot Erwitt, Provence, 1955.
Have a great weekend!
Here is finally one for the cat lovers as promised.
I think for my proper first cat drawing it did turn out quite ok. What do you think?
I started work on two new books. One will be my own, with the main character being the one and only, little Mr Fox. The other one is still in the planing stage. But I am excited nevertheless.
Seems for a fun warm up sketch I have settled for another fun French Bulldog once again. Also good to practice my pencil drawing skills.
So set your focus and don´t loose it.
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet. No more cats and dogs, nevertheless I drew a dog.
Let´s say he is sunbathing and enjoying the warmth.
Should I draw a cat tomorrow?
Same weather different day….
This is certainly the mood of the day.
Maybe I should start drawing cats too. At the end of the day I will always remain a dog person though.
Inspiration of funny dogs comes from Pinterest.
That expression came to mind when I looked out the window this morning. So naturally I felt like drawing a funny dog as the sketch of the day. Trying to get back into the habit of sketching daily.
I also felt curious of where the expression comes from and turns out it is not quite clear.
Reference image of this funny dog is from Pinterest.
I added a bit of colour to this honey badger. I am currently having fun learning Photoshop, designer programs and the like. Gotta earn that barbecue tonight by getting some work done.
Have a great weekend!
You can find this guy also in my Society 6 shop.
Another week over…
When you think you know what is best but then you have problems to follow your own smartass advice…
Good to have a reminder.
You can also find this little guy in my Society 6 shop.
Melanie Franz 