The strange thing about digital, since it’s open to endless fiddling, is that you never know when something is finished. You see, I already see things I want to darken, or colours I might change. We’ll see!
May 24, 2013
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Katsuhiro Ôtomo
By Jack in black and white, pencil, sketches
One of my heroes, but I despair of ever being able to work as hard as he.
May 23, 2013
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Watercolour Sunset Kitty
By Jack in cats, color, paintings, watercolor, watercolour
Or sunrise…. However you want to look at it.
Sold! Thank you.
May 23, 2013
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Vector Kitty Kat
By Jack in cats, color, digital, Nora the cat
I drew a digital kitty (not unlike my Nora) in Flash, then fixed it a bit in Illustrator. Those are tricky programs, sometimes!
But what’s neat about vector drawings, is that they can expand to fill the side of a building, without losing resolution and getting all “steppy.”
May 22, 2013
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Squirrels and Gardens
By Jack in ballpoint pen, brush pen, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Painting away while my friend gardens.
With varying degrees of success. Here’s a pencil sketch I outlined and then coloured. She really doesn’t have a paint can in her garden, but I’ve been messing with paint cans in the shed attached to the back of my apartment, so paint has been on my mind.
Some ink drawings of the garden’s arch-enemy: The Squirrel.
May 19, 2013
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Alchemist
By Jack in black and white, pencil, sketches
Did this drawing a while ago. Don’t think I ever blogged it. I like it. Now I might make a painting from it.
May 11, 2013
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La Virée des Ateliers, 2013, Part Two
By Jack in ruttan's placeThe second part of my visit to La Virée des Ateliers, this time centered on the Grover Building. I will fill in links and details, if you want to click on a picture. But that will have to wait, as I am off to dinner.
May 10, 2013
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La Virée des Ateliers, 2013, Part One
By Jack in ruttan's placeI visited this event, which is an open house for some artists and designers’ studios on a street near me.
Only managed to see part of it, at Le Chat des Artistes, on rue Parthanais. “Museum fatigue” set in because I hadn’t planned to go, only happened on the event. There was so much left to see. Will try to go to the rest tomorrow, so there will be a part II to this post. Some descriptions of the photos are available if you click on them, I hope.
May 10, 2013
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Grumpy Folk
By Jack in sketches, watercolor, watercolour
These two characters look grumpy. The one below is positively scowling. I used to complain about other artists, especially those for children’s books, being too smiley-smiley. But maybe I should cheer up a little!
This one’s not so bad. It’s an imaginary friend, like “My Neighbour Totoro.”
May 8, 2013
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Dramatic Women
By Jack in watercolor, watercolour, women
Thinking more in terms of stories, or at least trying to go that way. The first one started out as something Roman, but then looked more like someone at the beach. Hence the confusion in background and foreground items. It was also way too small to be detailed (coming from my small book), so I suppose I can call it a study, or thumbnail, if I ever want to do something like that again.
Boobs grew a bit. They are hard to draw in perspective.
Here is a madwoman (or at least someone who is very distraught), wandering the Moors.
Don’t worry. She’s okay in the end. Her servant comes out and recovers her, and she gets into group therapy, finding fulfillment writing for a small literary journal.
May 7, 2013
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The Small Book
By Jack in sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
Here are a bunch of little things from my small hardback book, which nonetheless has good paper for watercolouring. Nothing terribly special, but I liked doing them.
This guy was already drawn, but I added colour.
A Princess.
Some Pre-Raphaelite dame.
May 6, 2013
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Scooter Kid
By Jack in color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Lots of these in the street outside.
May 6, 2013
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Everybody Should be Drawing
By Jack in collaboration, pencil
A person I’m working with on a project, inspired I think, by my efforts, made these drawings. Nothing has to be perfect — it’s the doing that’s important. Each drawing is a journey, and a lesson. One can work on improvement or mastery of a certain technique or subject, or else simply enjoy the interaction with the medium. These no such thing, then, as a failed drawing. Each new one makes you stronger.
Sketches of Yours Truly by the same artist.
I particularly like how she drew the hair.
May 5, 2013
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More Monsters
By Jack in color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Been painting a lot of these. Probably should be doing more of the pretty street scenes instead, but what can you do?
I was thinking of “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” when I started this, but it looks more like “Baby Godzilla.”
I drew her hand wrong, but it works in this case, because the doctor probably made a mistake.
