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October 15, 2023 0

Professor Smellie

By in sketches

Digital Drawring. I’m better at the Clip Studio Paint now. And it seems to do all the things my old pirated Photoshop used to. This guy looks a little like Patrick Stewart.

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October 14, 2023 0

Tree and Cat

By in sketches

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October 11, 2023 0

Back Porch Cat

By in sketches

August 13, 2023 0

Jack R.’s Patreon

By in sketches

I haven’t been able to put this on the sidebar of my site. But I’ve created a Patreon Page. People can visit it, see cool stuff maybe you can’t see here, and make contributions and such-like. It’s what artists are doing these days. You can also write me and ask for a commission. A watercolour […]

August 11, 2023 0

Skinny Nameless Punk

By in sketches

My comic strip I created with Richard Gagnon has flown the coop for the moment. I think I need to update my “comicpress” theme, and am afraid they want money from now on. Still, I’m working on it, and in the meanwhile, I did a little drawing of him to practice my digital drawing skills.

August 6, 2023 1

UFOs

By in Blender 3D

Of course, they have some new kind of name, which I forget at the moment. (“Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”!) These were made in Blender, which I am still fooling with, but seems to change a lot, so it’s hard to keep up with the new interfaces and all. I like the finish on the one in […]

August 5, 2023 0

Yelling People!

By in color, Coloured Pencils, heads, pencil, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

I have to update my blog, template and all, to add new, modern things. I hope not a ton of pop-ups, etcetera. Still, this is a recent sketchbook page I actually worked on today! I’m setting up a Patreon link, and also have a cool illustration thing I’m going to share soon! Please stay tuned!

July 19, 2023 0

Newish Pages

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, color, horses, men, pencil, sketches

Newish sketchbook pages. You know, I used to put up a drawing every day, and felt unhappy if I didn’t. But these days, while I’m still drawing a lot, I’m not blogging as much. Social Media is strange. I loved Twitter, but they seem to be doing as much as they can to ruin it. […]

June 29, 2023 0

Old Me

By in Gouache, heads, men, self-promotion, sketches

Old old self-portrait. Mid 2000’s, I think.

June 21, 2023 0

QE Health

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, sketches

  Sketches from the waiting room of the Queen Elizabeth Health Centre in Montreal. I was there to accompany a friend. No one seems to mind me doing this. Cat and maus are imaginary….

June 16, 2023 0

Gene Luen Yang

By in black and white, cats, collaboration, comics, sketches

Back in the early 2000s, I got to do a workshop at Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Book Festival with the great Gene Luen Yang. A movie adaptation of his graphic novel American Born Chinese is currently coming out. The book the movie is based on is an amazing exploration of being young and having a Chinese […]

May 10, 2023 0

Guest Cat and Random Bird

By in cats, color, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Things seen outside my friend’s back door window. Painted in watercolour in my cheap Dollarama sketchbook.

March 20, 2023 0

Random Sketchbook Page

By in heads, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Like, from about 2018 or 19? I used to put these up when I did them. But got out of the habit, what with Facebook and all taking over from personal blogs…..

March 8, 2023 0

Bad Paper Squirrel

By in sketches, watercolour

Now this critter was painted on incredibly lightweight paper (one of those make your own greeting card packs). She cockled up very badly, but I was able to flatten her. Reminds me of a story about a job I worked at, colouring cels for an animated TV show that never made it to air….