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“It has been a pleasure to work with Melissa on the illustration of our children’s picture book. She is a dedicated, creative, and collaborative team member. Melissa has a wonderful ability to openly accept feedback while also expressing her artistic vision. I am immensely appreciative of her hard work and commitment to our joint goal! ”
— ASHLEY ABELES, Author of Kindness Detective

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View fullsize Playing with acrylic markers, making dumbo octopus that’s a drop cap D for a class I’m taking. These markers are bomb.
View fullsize Thanks to @justinhackworth for my new headshots! It was so nice to meet you:) I haven’t shown my face much on this account and I learned @altsummit that it’s important to show the personal side of my business! So here I am:)
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View fullsize Every single day is women’s day:) women, you know who you are, you’re doing it right. Keep doing the small things everyday.
View fullsize Drop cap Pizza Pie. 2024 I’m gonna do more fun things with words and hand lettering. This is an illustration I did a few months back while taking a skillshare class. I posted this a few days ago on stories and realized tonight I spelled chihuah
View fullsize I am toad-ily into alcohol markers. Coloring inktober illustrations is fun. #alcoholmarkers #markers #inktober2023
View fullsize Day 13: Rise Hands are my nemesis. This looked different in my head. #inktober #inkober2023 @inktober
View fullsize Day 11: Fortune This lady is stuck in a dimension that only the fortune teller can see. #inktober #inktober2023
View fullsize Day 10: bounce Nothing too crazy here. It’s my hair. #inktober #inktober2023
View fullsize Day 11: Wander In February I visited a lifelong friend in Hawaii, where she’s lived for the past 20+ years. We got up everyday and went on an adventure. I’ve loved wandering through life with you @moonbeam_808 #inktober #inktober2023 @
View fullsize Day 7: Drip I’ve always loved vampires. #inktober_drip #inktober2023 #inktober @inktober
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View fullsize Day 6: Golden My golden child. She loves being weird just like her momma, I had her pose so I could play with shape and form. #inktober #inktober2023 @inktober
View fullsize Day 5: maps I have been all over the map lately. When I’m not busy I get less done. So right now I am in the making myself busy stage. So all over the freaking map. #inktober #inkober2023 @inktober2023 @inktober
View fullsize Day 4: Dodge. 2 years ago, circa July 2021, we up and moved from Brooklyn NY to Kansas City. We’d visited the city once and were honestly so over the pandemic that a house with a yard and an easier lifestyle was what we craved. We left our fa
View fullsize Day 3: path. My creative path has taken some weird directions over the last 5 years of freelance. Trying to get it back on track:) #inktober2023 #inktober @inktober_2023
View fullsize Day 2: spider, momma spider in my case. I’ve been seeing a lot of momma spiders around our little lake, I don’t enjoy them. #inktober #inktober2023 @inktober_2023
View fullsize I’ve always watched inktober go by and wished I had just picked up the pen and drew. Today I started. 1. Used Adobe capture to put it on white background, 2-3. Timelapse’s of the words and drawing, 4. When I completely regretted color
View fullsize I turned 40 this year and went to Sedona with some girlfriends to celebrate. While I was there I did some drawing at the pool on my iPad. I love seeing illustrations grow and procreate has the timelapse feature which makes me so happy. Goals at 40 is

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Animal sounds

Patterns

DINOSAURs

DOgs

Family

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