Archive for the ‘dogs’ Category
Heroes and Ordinary People
By Jack in Animals, colour, dogs, men, pencil, watercolour, womenIn the brush drawing, I’m imagining Wonder Woman’s frumpier, older cousin. I always think that these glamourous types have relatives who are less impressive, and jealous of them. This is Cyrano de Bergerac. In one of his works, he built himself a pair of wings, and flew to the moon. Gotta love that Cyrano! Then, [...]
Dudes
By Jack in dogs, men, sketches, watercolourRecently painted a lot of dudes, or guys, or what have you. Faces seem to work better if I leave more white in them, but as usual, it’s all experimentation. The more I work on things, the better stuff gets. But if I go away from it, I seem to lose the touch, and have [...]
Tags: men, watercolour
Yellow Dog
By Jack in Animals, dogs, sketches, watercolourPainted a lot of things. Haven’t posted many yet. Maybe I’ll try something new and post only GOOD drawings. That would be a switch.
Tags: dog, watercolour
Cats and Dogs
By Jack in Animals, cats, colour, dogs, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolourDog and Woman, and Sad Daisy Mae
By Jack in Animals, colour, dogs, Pen & Ink, watercolour, womenNew Pug Dog
By Jack in Animals, colour, dogs, paintings, sketches, watercolourReading, and inspired by the comic Beasts of Burden, by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. Working on some animal stories, I promise! Okay, you’ve heard that before. Drawing pug dogs is fun. Not sure about the dogs themselves. One once got loose in this apartment when I left the door open. Discombobulated the cats. I [...]
Pushing Ahead
By Jack in Animals, cats, colour, dogs, men, sketches, watercolour, womenAfter not posting much, for a while, I’ve been doing a flurry of painting. Seems I need to go through a number of indifferent things to “ramp up” to something better. Anyhow, I’m happier with what’s going on here. Painting lots of cats for this cat strip I’m trying to finish. Wish it felt easier, [...]
Alsatian
By Jack in Animals, Brush Pen, colour, dogs, men, Montreal, Pen & Ink, watercolour, womenThe drawings look more realistic when copied from photographs. My problem is, it’s boring to draw from photographs. I’m painting shapes rather than trying to think around an object. Oh, I just remembered. Drew some sketches on the metro the other day. These to me are the best faces. I don’t know they have a [...]
Animal Gladiators
By Jack in Animals, comics, dogs, Montreal Comic Jam, watercolourThis is a comic I drew in about 10 minutes at the last Comic Jam. Then it took me about 4 days to decide what colours to put in. Enjoy!
Still More Zombies…
By Jack in Animals, cats, dogs, sketches, watercolour, Zombies…And evil cats! Devil Dog… Here’s smiling business guy: Anyhow, I’m offering you, in internet land, to have your own portrait, facebook photo, or twitter avatar, turned into your favourite monster, for hallowe’en, or indeed any time of year. Building the page right now where this would be possible. In the meantime, visit this page [...]
Wrapping Up the Sketchbook
By Jack in Animals, Brush Pen, colour, dogs, men, sketches, watercolour, womenOne of my sketchbooks is almost full. So, I went through it, painted new pictures, and coloured old ones. That means a real grab-bag of images. Which are attractive? Which “work?” It’s interesting to figure out. The things I like the most are the ones that help tell a story. That means comic “strips,” (none [...]
Monochrome, but Bi-Planes and Tri-Planes.
By Jack in Animals, Brush Pen, colour, dogs, men, planes, sketches, watercolour, women… but first, a Moonbeam McSwine type. Most of the sketchbook drawings come about as a “hey, a dog would look nice over there,” or a lot of things on a page. Rarely any planning. Actually, I have to work on that. Setting myself a subject ahead of time, and accomplishing it.
Retro Lines
By Jack in Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, dogs, sketches, womenI’m way more comfortable drawing in a spidery scratchy way than I am making the slick lines that seem popular in animation and graphic art these days. Still, fun to try. Doing some construction is also helping me with the heads and bodies. Part of the trouble with being self-taught as an artist, is that [...]
