Book Project – Work in Progress IV

On March 25, 2024 By MelIn Art, Artwork 2024, books2 Comments

Here is a close up, sneak peak, of another page I just finished. The original sketch for this page was completely different, I had the book dummy and layout, did the drawing and rendering and half way through I gave up, twice actually, as I simply couldn’t make the drawing work. So I then completely change the whole page around from a close up to a high angle perspective… Not 100% sure yet whether I like it or not… I might redo it again.

2403 city lights at night people walking and cat running ink illustration book project _Melanie Franz

I guess these are the micro despairs along the way, crawling slowly uphill from the pit of despair (see picture below.)

Book Project – Work in Progress III

On March 24, 2024 By MelIn Art, Artwork 2024, booksLeave a comment

Another page sketch ready to be inked today. Although I still need to tweak a few bits and pieces.

2403 Book project dog Labrador children's book pencil sketch work in progress _Melanie Franz

Watching your back

On January 28, 2024 By MelIn Art, Illustration, inktoberLeave a comment

That’s me, waddling out into the snow today. We are back to winter wonderland after 2 days of snowfall and no one who cleaned the roads…

Happy Sunday everyone!

New Capybaras coming your way!

On January 21, 2024 By MelIn Art, Artwork 2024, Illustration2 Comments

My notebook of ideas is filling up. Since the beginning of the year I had a million creative ideas in addition to the ones that have been piling up for years. The only issue is lack of time. So I have been utilizing every free minute this past week to work on the current project but also start new ones… I really need to get better at focusing.

Anyway, I just wanted to do a warm up sketch today before getting started on my book illustrations, but then ended up doing capybaras, as I missed their entertaining pokerfaces. Here is a behind the scenes.

What situation would you like to see the capybara in?

Meet the Artist

On April 11, 2023 By MelIn Art, Artworks 2023, IllustrationLeave a comment

Adding a new piece to my portfolio. Almost happy how it turned out. This is the third version. Ink, watercolour and coloured pencils on mixed media paper.