People in the real world fly by, and it’s hard to catch them. So one uses imagination, and skills gained by practice to capture them. Then there’s drawing from a photograph, which is basically analyzing shapes, and not that creative for me. Still, it produces a convincing result, and I learn something in the […]
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September 18, 2017
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Digitally Blonde
By Jack Ruttan in digitalDespite difficulties with hardware, I’m very happy with how the digital work seems to be progressing. Colours are a hard thing to get around, mainly because the palette here is potentially infinite. I’m also getting better at fixing things up, because the line of the stylus rarely goes where you want it to, so you […]
August 28, 2017
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Digital Dame
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, womenDigital painting, on the bigger computer again. Trying to do what’s called “glazing,” using my “natural brushes.”
August 1, 2017
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By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, heads, horses, men, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
This is sort of a test, in that I’m trying to post something via photos I took with the iPad. Sadly, there are a few things I haven’t figured out, but this is good enough for the time being.
July 30, 2017
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Mount Royal Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, paintings, parks, sketches, watercolor, watercolourYesterday, I went to a friend’s place just over Mount Royal, Not far from the Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery gates. And it was such a nice day I sketched this elaborate monument just inside the gates. Got to the other side of the “mountain.” That’s the part I call the “front” because it faces what used to […]
July 29, 2017
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Morning Squirrel
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourAngry chitterer.
July 5, 2017
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150 Words or Less
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, writingFor the Canada sesquicentennial celebration, the Atwater Library here in Montreal sponsored a contest where people could write in little stories or memories in about 150 words. I entered three. Didn’t win anything (my pal Joanne Carnegie got a nifty framed certificate as a runner-up), but I enjoyed the challenge of trying to write to […]
June 26, 2017
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Painted Squares
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourTaped off a few big rectangles in the sketch book, and painted them with watercolours. Will try to vary the palettes a little more next time.
June 18, 2017
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Quick Cyclops
By Jack Ruttan in color, digitalDarn. So much more to share. I used to post everything I drew/created! Oh well, here’s this guy.
May 11, 2017
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3D Tabby
By Jack Ruttan in Blender 3D, cats3D tabbers and mouse. I have to work on whiskers, I’m afraid, Next comes hair, which will be spooky. This is the rug I have in my hallway.
May 2, 2017
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Page of Draw-rings
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, pencil, sketchesI used to post here once a day. Now I’m guilty of drawing many drawings, even ones I think of as good ones, and not putting them up. Forgive me!
April 26, 2017
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Headstone
By Jack Ruttan in Blender 3DApologies to good cats everywhere. I was mainly trying to get the desert floor to look right, with the help of something called a “bump map.”
April 24, 2017
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3D Space Rendezvous
By Jack Ruttan in Blender 3DI’ve learned a bit about “UV unwrapping,” which is the art of making shapes one can decorate with graphics, and “paste” around your 3D model. Next today is to learn about “bump mapping,” which will let me put space-shippy details on the models. Maybe also “particle fields,” which will let me create stars, perhaps a […]