Welcome
Welcome to my sketch blog, for those of you who might be confused, yes, this used to be my online gallery. I decided to host my portfolio on a cleaner, more professional website (to which you can find the link bellow) and use my wordpress blog to show you guys my sketches, studies, work in progress and some of the tools and resources I use (and even share them with you all!).
For my online portfolio:
http://www.melaniemichel.com/
Character thumbs: The shepherd
Two post in one week!? I feel like I’m spamming you all xD I did a few quick variations for the shepherd character I’m going to use for my illustration. I’m going to go with thumbnail #2 (from my previous post) and character #2.
Thumbnails
I hadn’t planned on sharing these since they’re very loose, but I haven’t posted in a while so here’s what I’m up to! I decided to drop my old background because it was to lifeless and start over with something new. Loosely based on what I got from a theme generator, ”Lonely Shepherd in ghost town”. He’s going to be investigating a deserted town covered by weird vegetation. I’m not sure about giving him a few sheep or leaving him alone, he could be trying to find his herd or something, what do you guys think?
Happy new year!
Starting the year off with a quick pinup! Happy new year everyone! Hope you all enjoyed yourselves over the holidays and still managed to get a bit of rest 
The hideout: WIP02
Found some time to paint a bit this week. I really like trying out different atmospheres so it’ll be rain for this piece. 
Starting on a new piece! Background this time!
I’m back to doing backgrounds, it’s going to be set in a gothic-inspired setting. On top, quick sketchup layout, under is the blocking of the scene as it stands now, it still feels to empty so I’ll be putting stuff in the sort of court yard in front of the tunnel and putting some furniture and stuff in the tunnel itself. I’ll post the final blocked sketch before getting into the detail work
Miriam
This is pretty much almost done, I’m just missing a couple of textures and a bit of refining in some areas. I’ll be posting the final version as a character sheet in my portfolio later this week.
Miriam 03
The lines are gone, there’s still some accessories missing and not everything is finished being painted, but I’m nearly at detail& final texture phase.
Miriam step 2: sketch and some quick colors
Just quickly blocked in some colours and a bit of volume. I’ll finish this tomorrow if I have some spare time to draw.
Migration
Just finished the background piece I showed last week. The whole thing took a week total or less, but I didn’t get much time to work on it. I decided to add some creatures to add some life into it.
Miriam: thumbnails
Miriam is part of an ongoing personal project.
