Capybaras are excellent swimmers and some species like to use them as a free taxi service too.
Illustration from my latest Capybaras and Friends Colouring Book.
Tag: Drawing
Pack Your Cart
Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Or you are like me and you keep it to a minimum and focus more on good company and food?
Anyway, I just updated my “shop” drawing, combining my latest characters.
And if you are actually still looking for last minute presents then take a look at my latest book releases
Picture Perfect – A Mr Fox Story
Capybaras and Friends – Colouring Book
The Adventures of Mr Fox – Colouring Book
Picture Perfect
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!
Capybara Madness
My latest Capybara Colouring book is online!
If you are looking for a last minute Christmas present, you can get it here.
A colouring book for young and old with 15 unique and fun drawings, featuring capybaras and their friends.
Throughout the book you will also learn more about these adorable rodents, as each image is accompanied by fun facts.
Colour them in and bring them to life!
The drawings are one sided full page images in order to avoid bleed through of other images. Take out the page after you are done and frame the image. I would love to see your finished pages!
Capybaras everywhere
I seems like I will be able two more of my open projects just in time for Christmas!
# 1 is a short story about Mr Fox. I am just in the last review stage.
# 2 is another Capybara colouring book! Yes! I am still in love with these poker face rodents and have so much fun drawing them. That’s why I put together another colouring book (as I am still working on my writing skills) with 15 brand new drawings! The drawings are of course again accompanied by old and new fun facts about capybaras. (Here is the first book if you haven’t heard about it yet.)
So if you are still missing a last minute Christmas present or cannot get enough of Capybaras (just like me), then this may be for you.
Here is a sneak peek. It will be available online by the end of the week.
Mr Selfie Fox
Another sneak-peak of my upcoming Mr Fox book…
Wondering what he is up to? Stay tuned.
Going on More Fox Adventures
For those of you who are not fed up yet with Mr Francis Fox and Konstantin Mouse (yes, those are the names I seem to have settled for, what do you think?), here is a little teaser of my first own Mr Fox story!
I have been working on this book for a while now, struggling especially with the fact that I am not a writer. So it will be more of a picture story for young children than a literary masterpiece….
Have a great weekend!
Nap Time
Today is just one of those days were I would like to sleep all day….
This older drawing is part of my Capybara Coloring Book.
Never Lose your Sense of Wonder
Old drawing from the very beginnings of Mr Fox, but I still very much like it.
This is also part of the Mr Fox Colouring Book.
Eat Cake
Because life is too short! Somehow I have a craving…
This illustration is also part of The Adventures of Mr Fox – Coloring Book.
More about the book you can find here.
Hanging in the Air
I have been hanging in the air literally the last couple of weeks during hoop training but also emotionally I have been in bit of a slump. Tackling all the open projects I am having, is definitely helping.
That’s why I put this little guy also into the Mr Fox Colouring Book. It is not a colouring page per se, but you are more than welcome to add a colourful background. Let your imagination go wild.
“When once you have TASTED FLIGHT,
you will forever WALK THE EARTH
with your EYES turned SKYWARD.
For THERE you have been,
and THERE you will ALWAYS long to return.”
Mr Fox in a Box
Thank you again for all the feedback regarding the cover. And I am very happy to announce that The Adventures of Mr Fox – Colouring Book, is now officially available here. More about the content of the book you can find here.
I had fun putting this little project together with old and new drawings and maybe some of the Mr Fox fans out there will enjoy it too. It is not your typical colouring book, but it also invites you to add backgrounds and add to the drawings on your own. Just like the Capybara Colouring book.
The drawings are accompanied by inspirational quotes that I personally like.
Have a great Sunday and 2. Advent!
We have a proper storm out there. I keep on adding ideas to my to-do and drawing list. So this is a good day to continue and finish with some of the other open projects I have. 🙂
Mr Fox Colouring Book Cover Design
Thank you everyone for the great feedback regarding the cover design!
I took all comments into consideration an tweaked the cover a bit more. The orange header was definitely a winner and I tried to keep it at least somewhat similar in style to the Capybara Colouring book.
So this is the current and perhaps final version of the front and back cover.
What do you think?
I need your help
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 🙂
Take your Pet to School Day IV
A ferret! I think they are so cute. Somehow I feel that both of these guys could cause some trouble…. wanted to unwanted.
Take your Pet to School Day III
Another character sketch. Would you ever consider a spider as a pet? Me certainly not!
Take your Pet to School Day II
Another character design.
Any name suggestions for the characters are more than welcome.
Have a lovely weekend!
Take your Pet to School Day
I have been taking several illustrator courses in the last weeks. One of them about character design. So for a change I have been focusing on more human characters instead of animal ones. And eventually I settled on a character design I liked. Any feedback is more than welcome.
I still wanted to draw animals, so I picked the topic, take your pet to school day.
African Wild Dogs II
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.
African Wild Dog
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.
Melanie Franz 