A Menagerie of Mugshot Sketches

A quick, sketchy update for you. Above are the rough sketch versions for all 7 headshots for Renee, cobbled together in a rough approximation of what their final layout will be once cleaned up and colored. Having a great deal of fun with these guys, as I always do with Ren's wonderful characters. The characters are (Top L-R) Vothan, Zahnen, Paz (Middle) Charity, (Bottom) Marquard, Brunner and Cameron.

-Mel

Proof of Life

Flats! I've had approximately nilch for time to work on anything outside of what's been an awesome, challenging, all around brilliant job recently - so this image hasn't received so much as a glance in a few months, since flat colors were completed. I'm still positively itching to get some paint work in edgewise on it (and personal projects as a whole) so.... hopefully soon. For now, here's the flats.

Also part of my Need-To-Somehow-Manifest-More-Hours-In-A-Day list are a series of great images I have lined up to create for my good buddy (And ridiculously talented artist/writer) Renee. Thought I'd post a couple of rough sketches for that lot as well.

Glad to get a few updates in edgewise!
As always, thanks for viewing.
-Mel

Javadoodle!

So in efforts to eek my work into yet another websphere, I just opened up a shiny new Tumblr blog dedicated to daily postings of completed pieces of mine from over the past couple of years - likely 2008 or so to present. It's called Javadoodle! And you can find it right here.

This will be particularly handy as I can queue several posts ahead to pop up each day, so regardless of being to-the-hilt busy recently, there will be continual updates. While that blog will be polished, complete-image based, my blog here will continue to be host to the latest images I create and the process work behind them all. So never fear - this blog will always be my firstborn (I'm such a terrible blog-mom, choosing favorites.)

Thanks for the looksee, all!

-Mel

Foxy Jake is Foxy

Any sleep for the night be damned - here's a twofor! Jake's commission, completed, and with that, my commission list (Apart from two projects for some awesome mates of mine - Images for Ren and a tattoo for Pat) is now squared away. Commissions will be closed until further notice, as my current studio gig has me fully committed otherwise (And having a blast, I must add.) As always, a tremendous THANK YOU to my commissioners both for their support and patience when pro work swoops in and scoops me away out of nowhere. You guys are amazing ♥

And now... to "Work-work."

Today is going to be very interesting, indeed.

Coffee. Now. Get.

-Mel

Cat Sass for Poeso

Finally managed to wrangle a little squeaker's worth of time to wrap up Darne's commission. On to Completing Jake's! Hope everyone is doing well. Thanks for viewing!

-Mel