Author Archives: Mellanie C

Branching Out

I’ve plunged headlong into ATC trading.  I think I’m not far from being addicted.  I’m been haunting Artist Trading Card forums, meeting people, signing up for swaps–Whew!– and now I’m a bit bleary eyed.   I’ve been trading cards as fast as I can make them. This owl is on its way to its new homeContinue reading “Branching Out”

Arte y Pico Award from Paul’s Funky Stuff

It’s always wonderful to get recognition from fellow bloggers. A few weeks ago I got this award from Paul at Paul’s Funky Stuff. Paul is a swell guy who runs a very entertaining blog. He features odd pictures, videos, and stories on a variety of topics that would never occur to you. You should checkContinue reading “Arte y Pico Award from Paul’s Funky Stuff”

Portrait Swap With Enerene74

I was looking through some Flickr contact pages the other day and I came across this drawing of me. Enerene74 used to do a lot of sketches of fellow artists on Flickr. I enjoyed them a lot. Unfortunately he has been busy and not sketching much. I was delighted to see that he made timeContinue reading “Portrait Swap With Enerene74”

Travel to 7 Continents Meme

I was tagged for this meme by Doudy at Doudy Sketch Watercolor. Doudy is a great guy and his enthusiasm about watercolors is contagious. I even bought myself some watercolors yesterday after years of saying that I would never try it. Love ya, Doudy! This looks like a fun meme and I tag anyone whoContinue reading “Travel to 7 Continents Meme”

Don’t Know What You’re Doing? Do It Anyway!

graphite and drawing inks Yesterday I sat down to draw and I got out these bottles of ink I had been ignoring ever since I had brought them home. I have been using Copic brush markers for months doing simulated washes on my art cards and drawings. I liked using these markers because I feltContinue reading “Don’t Know What You’re Doing? Do It Anyway!”

EDM 23 – Draw Your Feet

After weeks of drawing tiny faces on tiny cards it felt good to get loose and do some simple sketching. I was shocked at how well these feet sketches turned out. If I had carefully tried to draw these they wouldn’t have come close to looking this good. I have been neglecting my sketching lately.Continue reading “EDM 23 – Draw Your Feet”

Portrait Swap with Ujwala

I just completed my first portrait swap. Aside from a little nail biting it went great. My swap was with Ujwala from draw the line. We thought it would be fun to combine a portrait swap for the Portrait Party blog with an ATC exchange. Here is my entry. It took a lot of sketchingContinue reading “Portrait Swap with Ujwala”

Trading My Cards

Hi there everyone. Last week I started trading my art cards. It’s a blast. I’ve traded almost every card I’ve made. I made a few today. Here are two I made using my new comic book style: I’ve already traded the one on the right. Minutes after I posted it, I had someone offer aContinue reading “Trading My Cards”

On Loosening Up

According to the Flickr “interestingness” scale, this is the fifth most interesting picture in my photostream. I realized I haven’t posted it here. I did this way back in December 2007. I really like this quick pencil sketch. I remember how much I enjoyed doing it. Looking back at this made me realize that IContinue reading “On Loosening Up”