What’s next?

I have been in a drawing mood lately and thought it is about time to add some new prints to my Etsy shop.

But what should I add?

Let me know in the poll below.

Inktober 2025 Melanie Franz

Here is a best off (at least my favourites) of Inktober so far. There are a few more to come.

Honey Badger coming your way

I am all into drawing honey badgers again. If you can be anything, be a honey badger!

Printable card available on Etsy.

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

A little bit of everything…

This week I feel like I have been all over the place. New uploads to my Etsy shop, book illustrations, people drawing…. And nothing really got finished… Oh well..

2403 ink drawing street at night _Melanie Franz
Current page I am working on. A work in progress…

At least I haven’t spilled any ink today…

What’s next?

Honey Badger Coffee ETSY 5x7 printable Greeting card _Melanie Franz

Playing around with design

I decided to set up an Etsy shop for printable wall art and cards and have been having fun the past week in coming up with designs. I think it is also a way of procrastination from the task at hand, which is getting my illustrations done for my latest book project. I still haven´t managed to posted about it…. Maybe tomorrow.

Anyhow, I have been having fun learning more about photoshop and designer and mock ups, so it is not all wasted time. Apparently Valentine’s day is just around the corner and I thought I experiment with that. Here is one for the honey badger in your life! What do you think?

You find the download in my shop here.

Return of the Honey Badger

It’s been a while since I drew a honey badger. After what feels like days of sleep deprivation, I feel like drinking coffee is not enough anymore… Give me that bucket!

Time to be a Honey Badger again

I found this one when going through last years images. Another honey badger poster I created for my Society 6 Shop. Will add it online asap as I very much like it.

What do you think?

I also framed some of my honey badgers and I absolutely love them!

1 honey badger snake shit _ Melanie Franz

Art vs Artist III

Once I got into doing these image collections, I couldn’t stop. So here is another retrospect of drawings of last year. I had pretty much forgotten about the honey badger series I did!

They are also still available in my Society 6 shop in case you are looking or an original present.

And the fox drawings are part of my Mr Fox Colouring Book.

Art vs Artist 2021_Melanie Franz

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

2112 shopping cart honey badger_ Melanie Franz

First coffee. Scheme later. Part II.

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.

Be Cool Like a Honey Bagder II

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.

Follow Your Own Advise

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.

Honey Badger don´t take shit

Have a good weekend everyone!

If you fancy getting your own supportive honey badger, check out my Society 6 shop.

3-honey-badger-standing_Melanie Franz

Honey Badger don’t care about Lemons

Be like honey badger!

If you fancy getting your own supportive honey badger, check out my Society 6 shop.

I’ll be adding more honey badgers at the end of the week to the collection.

Coffee first. Scheme later.

Honey badger also need their coffee. Who else is a coffee person here?

Black or milk?

As the boyfriend would say, give me coffee as dark as my magic (or my soul) … Depends on the day.

For more honey badgers, visit my shop.

5-honey-badger-coffee Melanie Franz

Honey Badger Got the Moves!

Get ready for honey badger week!

I´ve been having this idea for a while and I finally put it into being. I have been working on a couple of honey badger designs.

I uploaded the first ones here onto my Society 6 page. Feedback is more than welcome!

If you don´t know about honey badgers, then this is the video for you. They are simply badass!

Have a great week!

Be a Honey Badger

Came back from holiday, full of energy and eager to work.

I got started by finishing the honey badgers I drew a couple of months ago. A few of them are still unfinished, but get ready for a week of honey badgers.

If you could be anything you want, be a honey badger! They are the most resilient tough bad-ass animals out there!

Another week over. This year just seems to fly by.

Happy weekend!

Time to freshen up

After roughly 10 years I thought it is also about time to change the header image of my website. Played around with different versions, this is what I settled on for now.

Any comments and feedback are more than welcome.