When everything is up in the air…

Or something like that. It is Inktober and I haven’t found the time yet to get it started. Maybe I’ll try and play catch up at the weekend.

Are you doing Inktober?

Aerial Fox _Inktober _ Melanie Franz

Life is better upside down

It’s been a month since I was on a hoop. I was forced to take a break due to a pulled arm muscle. Patience is not one of my strengths, but I am trying to be smart this time and not make it worse. So I have been doing the next best thing, drawing Mr Fox the aerialist. It has been a while since he has made an appearance.

Wanna hang with me?

Here is the almost finished opossum. I haven´t been hanging upside down for almost a month now due to an elbow injury , but I might attempt going back to aerial hoop this week to start with some easy training again.

Anyone else here who likes to hang upside down?

What animal would you like to see next?

Getting side tracked once again

Opossum you said…?

Consider it a warm up drawing for getting back into my book project…

More positivity please

Or is that a sarcastic Oui Oui? For me to know and you to find out 🙂

Anyway, just uploaded the print to my Etsy.

Have a great day!

A4 Black and white poster Blue footed booby ink drawing Oui Oui_ Melanie Franz

What are you doing?

Yes, what am I doing? For being a professional project manager, my art projects are currently all over the place in different stages of progress….
Instead of focusing on finishing my book, I get distracted by animal drawings and designs for Etsy….

I heard there was cake

Have been drawing a bit this week. But the weather was also horrible and I felt like being cozy under the blanket when I had the time. So I just played around with new designs for my Etsy shop.

The result…. a bunch of greeting and birthday cards.

Or maybe I just really wanted to have cake….

Happy weekend!

Honey Badger Coming Your Way II

After doing the sketches the other day, I felt like drawing some of those badgers in big. Still work in progress.
I also updated the honey badger posters in my Etsy shop if you would like a badger on your wall 🙂

2407 Honey Badger Sketch _ Melanie Franz
2407 Honey Badger drawing _ Melanie Franz

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!

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 😉