Don’t Rush me…

On August 13, 2024August 12, 2024 By MelIn Artwork 2024, books, character design, Illustration5 Comments

Or maybe please dooooo….

I am still on hold with my book project. Instead of finishing it I started working on the next story in this collection and hired an editor. So with the second story starting to get more shape, I think it is time to finish the last missing illustrations of the first story. If you have no idea what I am talking about… well, meet Madame Woof Woof. The main character for my upcoming children’s book.

Illustrations are 80 % done, after that it will be picture editing and type setting which is a whole new skill as well that I am trying to get better at… I will certainly not get bored. Stay tuned! 🙂

Book Project – Work in Progress V

On March 26, 2024March 25, 2024 By MelIn Art, Artwork 2024, books1 Comment

Hoot hoot! 🙂 Quite happy how this owl turned out.

For this page I thought I will try to put the whole image together digitally after drawing all the individual parts. I couldn’t make the page work with the first rendering, plus I had spilled some ink, so I decided to try it this way instead of starting with the full page all over again. One of the biggest challenges when drawing traditionally it the lack of the CTRL + Z shortcut….

Do I have fun drawing traditionally? Definitely. Would it be easier to do it all digitally? Most likely.

Do you prefer digital or traditional drawing?

Let’s see what will happen.

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.)

A little bit of everything…

On March 16, 2024March 16, 2024 By MelIn Art, Artwork 2024Leave a comment

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

Work in progress

On February 27, 2024 By MelIn Artwork 2024, books1 Comment

So I spent the last month working on my book. It took me a while to actually figure out the final style that I wanted to go for. Now I kind of figured that out.

Next I am still in the process of tweaking some of the compositions. I liked the initial sketches and all but now that I am doing the fully rendered pages, I feel that some of them fall flat.

The story is about Madame Woof Woof, a black Labrador, and all the different reasons of why she barks at night.