And last but not least, the third image in this little series. Here are one and two.
Category: Art
What are you doing? II
Here is part two of my little children story in 3 acts. Part one you can find here.
Forest Party
Another older illustration of mine from winter 2021. I think it was right after I bought another bunch of my Caran d´ache Luminance pencils and one of the first attempts to use them.
The illustration is watercolour, ink and coloured pencils on cold press paper.
A forest party of my favourite animal characters.
Take Your Pet to School Day VII
Tried another perspective and experimented with coloured pencils just for fun.
Character Design V
Tried something slightly different with this guy. Instead of the usual ink I used a coloured pencil for the outline.
What do you think?
Character design
Time to revive my blog!
While I am working on something new, I am updating my portfolio with some older illustrations that I did a bit more than a year ago. Now properly scanned in. The idea was to practice character design. For this I chose the title Take Your Pet to School Day.
New Year, New Adventures
It has been a while since I have been active here. Time to get back to drawing.
I was somewhat in a creative low and this was my first attempt of the year to get started again. Did this for a draw this in your style challenge by Poopikat #poopidtiys2023
I am really happy how it turned out and it was also the perfect opportunity to try out my new scanner!
Inktober – Day 27 – Interlude
Trying a different kind of spread layout…
Welcome to day 27 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
Following the fairy to the end of the dark street, she stops in front of a gully cover. Waving her wand she removes the lid and starts going down.
Grog was anything but delighted about their underground journey, while Sasha felt quite at home in the cave like environment.
“Where does the tunnel lead to?” she asks.
“Have some patience, will you?” the fairy says. “None paying clients are always the worst” she mumbles to herself.
Inktober – Day 25 & 26 – Tempting & Ego
I was a bit at a loss of what to draw for these prompts, so decided to combine them both in the story…
Welcome to day 25 & 26 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
“So if you are a fairy, can you make my wing grow back?”
“Ah, I am afraid that is beyond my abilities. However, there might be other solutions. Let me make you a suggestion, I can grant you one wish or I can help you find what you lost,” the fairy says.
“Only one wish? And I cannot wish for a second wing?” Grog asks.
“That´s correct” the fairy replies.
“What kind of fairy are you if you cannot fulfill a wish? I thought that is the purpose of fairies?” grumbles Grog.
“Well, I am what I am. So take it or leave it,” the fairy snaps back at Grog and starts turning away from him.
“Make up your mind,” Sasha hisses at Grog. “The night is almost over and we are still no closer in finding your wing!”
After another moment of thought and seeing his reflection in a puddle of water, Grog forgets about his ego and starts jumping after the fairy who is slowly flying down the street. “ Alright, alright! Keep your wish, but I want your help, if you say you can help” he barks at her.
The fairy turns around and smiles at them. “Alright, follow me.”
Inktober – Day 11 – Eagle
Welcome to day 11 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
Grog quickly jumped out of reach of the crab´s claws.
Still being puzzled by the content of the nest, Grog and Sasha did not pay any attention to their surroundings.
Suddenly they heard a screech behind them. Is this the owner of the nest returning? Either way, they did not want to find out and made a run for it!
Inktober – Day 10 – Crabby
Welcome to day 10 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
Grog swiftly climbed up to the nest. Although he was not able to fly anymore, he still is an excellent climber.
However, the nest held a surprise that he did not expect at all!
Inktober – Day 8 – Match
…still attempting a very slow catch up on my Inktober drawings…
Welcome to day 8 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
Together they start exploring the streets of the city.
Walking past a window, Grog sees his reflection. For a moment it looks like his wings are a perfect match again.
Inktober – Day 7 – Trip
Welcome to day 7 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
Eventually Grog comes to the conclusion that his wing was not in the attic.
“Maybe it simply fell down the roof?” Sasha said.
Together they decide to leave the building and explore its surroundings.
Inktober – Day 6 – Bouquet
Welcome to day 6 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
Grog and Sasha, who has nothing better to do, decide to keep looking together.
Meanwhile the flames surround a dry bouquet. Their dancing startles a group of moths that had been sleeping in it. While the moths take flight, Grog looks at them and their flapping wings with envy.
Inktober – Day 5 – Flame
Welcome to day 5 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
“Maybe they know where my wing is?!” Grog yells, pointing at little white lights that seem to be dancing.
“What is a wing?” the dancing flames reply. “We are having a party. Come and join us!”
But neither Grog nor Sasha were in the mood to join in the wild dancing.
Inktober – Day 4 – Scallop
Welcome to day 4 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
“Let me put on my glasses”, Sasha the bat, said.
“You wear glasses??” Grog replies, wondering.
“Nobody is perfect!” Sasha sneers at him.
Meanwhile Grog climbs up another pile of boxes to look at what is inside. The top box tips and its content comes crashing down. Grog finds himself buried in a mountain of scallops.
Inktober – Day 3 – Bat
Welcome to day 3 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
The closet was empty, except for a large bat staring right at him with big eyes.
It took Grog a moment to get over his surprise.
“Have you seen my wing?” he asks.
“Do I look like I see something?” the bat sneers back.
Inktober – Day 2 – Scurry
Last year during Inktober I put the focus on character design and had fun creating little children´s illustration. This year (after a way to long break from drawing and feeling out of practice) I decided to put the focus on storytelling.
Follow me for whatever story this year´s Inktober prompt list will lead to. Every day´s prompt will be a new page of the story.
Day 1 – meet Grog, the gargoyle. Now you might have notice something different about him.
Day 2 – still a work in progress. Will finish it tonight.
One morning Grog woke up, discovering that one of his wings was missing.
Grog jumped off his usual outdoor wall spot. Maybe someone had put his wing in the attic? He scurried around, looking here and there. But his wing was nowhere to be found.
Getting more worried, he spots a big closet at the other end of the attic. Maybe his wing is in there? Slightly out of breath, he opens the door.
He jumps! That was not what he expected to find!
… to be continued on day 3.
Lunch Buffet
Summer was so busy with work and other things, that I have been neglecting the blog and my art for the last couple of months!
This definitely needs to change! First step was taken last weekend when I finally managed to clean up my drawing desk. I now have no excuses not to start drawing next weekend.
I am also planning to do Inktober again, so I will hopefully start positing some warm-up sketches next week, just to get back into a drawing routine.
Meanwhile I started colouring in scenes from my own capybara drawing book.
Take Your Pet to School Day II
Some of the initial sketches of the class room.
Have a great weekend! I will be out enjoying the sun.
Melanie Franz 