And last but not least, the third image in this little series. Here are one and two.
Tag: children's illustration
What are you doing? II
Here is part two of my little children story in 3 acts. Part one you can find here.
What are you doing?
Another older watercolour illustration.
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 V
Changed perspective for this one.
Take Your Pet to School Day IV
More watercolour and ink.
Have a great week!
Take Your Pet to School Day II
Another classroom another scene.
What kind of pets did you have when you grew up?
Take Your Pet to School Day I
This was my first attempt at a full scene in watercolour and ink, where I put the characters of the previous posts into action.
I am very happy how it turned out. Any comments and criticisms are welcome 🙂
Did you ever take your pet to school?
Character Design VI
Another character sketch. This time with pencil outline, just to try something different.
I don´t like how the dog turned out, but I actually like the softer pencil outline of the girl. What do you think? Do you prefer this over ink?
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 IV
Another kid with her pet. Is it just me or do her eyebrows make her look like she is planning to cook the pig…. ? 😀
Watercolour and ink.
Character Design III
Another character design practice for Take Your Pet to School Day.
Watercolour on paper.
Character Design II
Part of my character design practice from last year for Take Your Pet to School Day.
Do you have a pet?
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 24 – Fairy
Still playing catch up with the inktober drawings. Was a bit stuck with the story and still not quite sure where it will go. Any inspiration is welcome. Have a great week everyone!
Welcome to day 24 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
They start walking down the street. Everything is dark and they are not quite sure what direction to take.
Suddenly Sasha spots a tiny light at the end of an alley. Curious, they walk towards it.
“Who are you?” Grog asks.
“I am a fairy” the winged creature says.
“You don´t look like a fairy” Grog says.
“Oh well, nobody is perfect,” the fairy replies. “And who are you, if I may ask?”
Grog and Sasha introduce themselves.
“A bat with glasses and a one winged gargoyle! Seems like you are not perfect either” the fairy responds and smiles broadly.
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.
Day 4 – Patriot
Do not mess with Mr Bunny. He will defend his castle!
Prompt for day 4 of World Watercolor Month.
World Watercolor Month – Day 1 – Train
Happy weekend everyone! I am definitely late to the party. June came and left and I barely noticed that July had started. As I have been in a creative/ non drawing hole lately I thought I take up the challenge and jump in on World Watercolour Month. It might be a good way to develop a illustration routine again beside work.
I´ll follow the prompt list and focus on lose spontaneous watercolour illustrations to get back into a creative spirit. The goal is to try something new and maybe I will discover a new style along the way.
Who else is participating?
Take your Pet to School Day XI
Here is the entire school class. I really had fun coming up with different characters.
Melanie Franz 