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Silhouette Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, digitalThis is a digital drawing where I started with a silhouette painted with a large brush, and then filled in highlights and details with smaller brushes.
Star Trek Guy
By Jack Ruttan in digitalThis Star trek dude has no reason to be smug. He’s wearing a red shirt.
Faces from Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and elsewhere
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenDid these over the summer, but somehow forgot to put them up. They are mainly from Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, when I was sitting in the open air market doing portraits. They’re brush pen and watercolours, mostly.
Professional Artist
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI drew this after watching a few Youtube videos about the “Andrew Loomis” method of drawing faces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BevsH0jOMA This method was actually a revelation to me when I first discovered it years ago, because I’d inherited a few Loomis books from an artist uncle. But am rarely able to get it to work. Just winging […]
Sketchbook Pages
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, sketchesHere are a bunch of images from my sketchbook recently. In gouache, coloured (and not) pencil.
Tonkinese
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, watercolourThis little picture is in honour of my friend’s cat, now sadly departed.
Paintings of Guys
By Jack Ruttan in digital, sketchesGoing to try to do slightly more exciting things than these. But the computer painting is working not so badly.
Computer Sketch
By Jack Ruttan in digitalThis is a drawing I was messing with while hanging out at a friend’s, waiting for some work to be completed. I’ve been doing other drawings, both on the computer, and on paper, but have been lax posting them as of late.
Measuring Clouds
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI coloured an old drawing I did for a science article in the “McGill Reporter.” It’s called “Measuring Clouds.”
Morning Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in cats, pencil, sketchesMaybe for one of the last times on the balcony, I’m afraid. Inside hazards include overly attentive cats who want to be front and centre on the lap. Still, these are various people I saw walking past, and an impression of Nora the cat “playing the cello.”
Pencil Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, pencilThe building is from a book called “Forgotten Architecture” and is a brewery in Baltimore, Maryland. Would be interesting to see if it is still standing. Not a lot of fun to draw, however. Still, I want to do more architecture and machines. Even though I drew it in brown pencil, it scanned dark, so […]
Further sketches from the last while
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolourA page of pencil sketches. Something Harry Potter-y, and more people, drawn with watercolour pencils both activated and not.