Category: Revising Old Work

Illustrations, Revising Old Work, storytelling art, thoughts behind the work

Night Visitor pencil drawing

Michele B. Naquaiya

Here is another pencil drawing from my portfolio that I did a little digital editing on today to add some highlights and deepen some tones.  No one has ever seen this artwork as it was buried in some old files I found.

I am posting this and I am wondering if it might be good art for a book cover.  So, in a day or two I will be fabricating a book title and I will search for a font that will fit the art.  The drawing will have to be simplified I think for a commercial book cover.  I love working in pencil because it is so honest.  I want to do more.
Here is the artwork on products in my online store:

nitevisitor-bw

fonts, Illustrations, Revising Old Work, thoughts behind the work

more works in progress

Michele B. Naquaiya

blueyeSwindow-wip

I am drawn to fonts like a moth to a flame.  I found this little sketch in my portfolio and am reworking it digitally.  I’m not done because I can’t yet figure out how to draw her hair and clothing.  I am playing with brushes and new fonts.  I wonder when I finish what this will actually look like.  Where will it live?  In what format will it settle into?  Would anybody buy such an idea?  I think there is a place, so I will continue to draw and play.  I think there is some illusive thing here.  If I keep digging, I will find it.

animals, dogs, horses, cats, Illustrations, Revising Old Work

Appaloosa in Training

Michele B. Naquaiya

young trainer.web

This is a young girl I knew in California as a very talented and hard working young trainer.  I did this watercolor of her with an underpainting in soft pink tones.  She is resurrected here.  Enjoy.

Follow my journey, see my products

 

animals, fantasy illustration, Holidays, Illustrations, kids, Revising Old Work

Dear Santa, a letter from a snow-globe

Michele B. Naquaiya

I designed this image a few years ago and I revised it a little lately, only changing the font.  I want to start building a small collection of my favorite designs I’ve done for the holidays.  I don’t really remember how I did this but looking at it today, it’s pretty cool.  Since I was without a computer for a few years, lots of strange things happened and pieces of my life went up in smoke.   I’m making a collection on this blog of rescued work because these drawings involved were substantial and I believe they are worth saving.

I think it makes a good Christmas card but I also like it on a kids’ t-shirt. check it out.

This is the first time in years that I’ve had more than a minute to catch up and breathe. I can now enjoy my art and I don’t have to put up a fight to allow it to just …be.  I don’t know where all this will lead, but it is helping me adjust to my new life here in Mexico.snowglobe-dearsanta-web

 

alphabet, fantasy illustration, kids, Revising Old Work, simple photoshop, Uncategorized

a b c alphabet letters

Michele B. Naquaiya

a-b-c.jpg.th

These three little letters were an idea I had a long time ago and I did not forget about them.  I love drawing and sketching little critters and I hope I can get a complete alphabet one day of little marching letters.  When I drew them the sketch had little white feet of some kind and I carried it through here in the photoshop drawing.

alpha-a-b-scrap-th

The red and green above are the original ideas which I managed to save from oblivion.
I love the little legs and I think if I can be consistent throughout the alphabet on treatment of this kind of nice flowing design, white feet, treatment on their heads and eyes especially and the thick and thin variety in the black lines, I hope I may actually have something here.  I did do an alphabet a long time ago and here is one letter done in scratchboard and gold.  I can’t find it right now but it will show up.  It was pretty awesome.

Of course, I know I’m going about this in the wrong way because these should be done in vector in AI and to do them as bitmap in photoshop is pretty labor intensive.  But….I wanted to get the idea down why I still remember it.   Also I have lots of brushing up to do in Illustrator and photoshop is right now easier for me.