These are simple, but done with different techniques and programs. Up above is purely digital, drawn and painted in Photoshop. The guy below was drawn in Adobe Illustrator according to a pencil sketch, then coloured in Photoshop. I’m happy with the ink lines I’m able to create, and they’re fast to do, too. This strange [...]
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February 4, 2012
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Pile of Paintings
By Jack in colour, digital, men, paintings, sketches, vectors, wash, watercolour, women
January 17, 2012
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Digital and Ballpoint Pen Critters (and folk)
By Jack in Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, horses, paintings, sketches, womenStill playing with the digital painting. I think I get so carried away with the technical challenge I sometimes forget to make an interesting picture. Hence this horse, not doing much of anything. George Stubbs I am not! Actually, without the “ink” lines, this looks a lot like one of those paint by numbers kits. [...]
January 13, 2012
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Edith Scissorpaws
By Jack in Animals, black and white, cats, digital, Nora the cat, sketchesYoung Nora was being obstreperous, as is easy to see from this photo, and she got my little finger this morning as I was trying to take something breakable away from her. So I’ve given her a new identity, as below: So there.
December 6, 2011
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Female Faces…
By Jack in black and white, pencil, sketches, womenCharlize Theron, from the cover of a movie mag. I’ve been neglecting my blogging. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been drawing. Working on female faces here, trying to catch what’s special in a face that makes it a particular person. Easier to draw a generic face. But when you can’t get out to sketch real [...]
November 24, 2011
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Women’s heads and profiles
By Jack in ballpoint pen, black and white, pencil, sketches, womenDrawing things from DVDs. Freezing it this time, rather than just going on impressions as the movie plays. A lot of work filling things in with pencil! This and the below are based on Sharon Stone from the beginning of Total Recall. And some random, imaginary profiles with my fine-line roller pen: Good night, all!
November 22, 2011
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Out of My Head….
By Jack in Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, horses, men, sketches, womenThat’s where these drawings are from. When winter sets in it’s less practicable to draw things out on the street. So I sit around looking at books, watching DVDs, also drawing anything that tickles my fancy. Hate drawing directly from photographs, but those give you different ideas, and also keeps one closer to reality. So [...]
November 21, 2011
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A Kelpie, a Vampire; other things.
By Jack in Animals, black and white, Brush Pen, horses, men, sketches, womenI drew these in black and white, because I’m practicing computer colouring. Seems like a lot of work!
November 18, 2011
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Comic Colour and Nasty Horsemen
By Jack in Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, colour, digital, horses, men, sketchesI’ve finally learned a comic colouring technique that’s relatively fast, and that I’m happy with. Check this series of youtube videos from the Overground Comic Company, if you want to find out more. Meanwhile, I’ve been drawing a stack of things. Here are a couple of angry guys on horses a la Frank Frazetta for [...]
November 15, 2011
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Roller Pen Drawings
By Jack in ballpoint pen, black and white, Pen & Ink, sketches, womenCould call these “Pen and Ink,” but that seems too grand. The titles become dull also, because of the idea of putting something plainly descriptive in so search engines can find them.
November 4, 2011
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Watercolourous-ness
By Jack in Animals, cats, colour, sketches, wash, watercolour, women
November 3, 2011
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Pencil Portraits
By Jack in black and white, men, pencil, sketchesMahler I’m working on my portraiture chops, by drawing some faces out of an old “New York Times Book Review.” Tough to be technically good, and still contain a hint of personality. But that’s why we practice with these kinds of things, isn’t it? Young Orson Welles Hal Holbrook
October 26, 2011
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Drawings of Thugs and Women
By Jack in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, pencil, sketches, watercolour, womenSorry, they’re not together. Some other time! The guy here is my trying to recapture impressions of this character I saw on the street, who could have been a thug ordered by Central Casting. Don’t think I caught the exact look of malice on his face which unsettled me, though! Women in pencil, and colour:
October 22, 2011
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A Utopian Moment
By Jack in black and white, colour, men, Pen & Ink, sketches, watercolour, womenSomebody asked me where the name “Utopia Moment” came from. It’s something I made up, when I was in a Brian Eno type of mood (he likes to give enigmatic titles to his pieces). I think it refers to the instant when everything feels perfect; but it’s so fleeting it’s hard to grab onto and [...]
October 4, 2011
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New Comic – “The Golden Calf”
By Jack in black and white, Brush Pen, comicsI don’t really know where this comic came from, because it grew out of the first panel, and I took it from there without knowing about characters, or a joke, only that I had to do a six panel story. Guess I was influenced by reading about R. Crumb’s “The Book of Genesis,” because I’m [...]
