The one on the left is actually a lady. But I think I gave her too much jaw. May fix that, because it is digital, after all.
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June 29, 2018
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Knausgaarding
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, Book Reviews, pencil, Portraits, sketchesFinishing up the fifth volume so far of Mr. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s series “My Struggle.” My mind is a little blown, but his story stimulates me not to give up on my own journey. My pal is waiting for the final volume, coming out in September, but I will have to wait until she’s finished […]
June 14, 2018
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The Savage Yard!
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, comics, digitalA comic by me, Jack Ruttan. Computer colours, this time. Seems like digital is much slower, and much more reliant on know-how than watercolours are, which are sort of in my bones. Still working on the work flow! Of course, what a person thinks about this who grew up with digital and has trouble with […]
June 7, 2018
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A Comic. By Me.
By Jack Ruttan in color, comics, digital, watercolorLife has been tough, lately, and I’ve not been doing some things I should have been doing. I don’t know if comics is one of them, but lots of illustrators are doing them. And if I call myself a writer/slash illustrator, then that’s a natural. But it’s not very renumerative. I started drawing digitally, got […]
April 28, 2018
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Digital and Traditional Sketchbook Pages
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketchesI messed with both digital and traditional (as it’s called) sketchbook pages today. The traditional pages, compiled into books, are more organised. The digital ones are everywhere, squirreled into cryptic files, over two computers. There’s a tiny bit of digital here, anyhow!
April 28, 2018
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Pages from One of My Sketchbooks.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, color, Coloured Pencils, Gouache, sketches, watercolourThere’s a lot that I draw that I don’t put up. Trying to remedy that a bit. It’s not all brilliance, but here it is. Pencil, coloured pencil, Gouache. I think that’s covered it, technique-wise.
April 26, 2018
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Another Mopey-Looking Guy….
By Jack Ruttan in digital, men….drawn while I was watching something else. Seems to be where my mind goes to when you set it into “neutral.” I wonder why?
April 26, 2018
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Karloff-ish.
By Jack Ruttan in digitalListening to this very good podcast about Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, I drew my idea of Boris Karloff on my computer. I should really use references, so this guy is just Karloff-like. (darn it! Lots of pictures on the podcast site!) You know, one of my Great-Aunts was married to Karloff for a while, […]
April 16, 2018
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Aloysuis and his Room
By Jack Ruttan in Blender 3DHere’s the final version of my “Green Monster” diorama. I find this quite charming. A lot of work went into getting the graphics and the lighting right. While I’m still a beginner in Blender 3D, I learned a lot here. “Aloysuis” is pronounced “Allo-wishus” if anyone doesn’t know.
April 12, 2018
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Monster 3
By Jack Ruttan in Blender 3DI placed a rusty steam pipe into my Blender monster scene, but didn’t have the energy to add a spiffy valve to it, or a lot of joints with bolts on them. Still, I’m pleased with my mastery of the “spin” tool. One more thing learned! #b3d