After a meeting at a law office, I was given a lot of scratch pads made of scrap paper. These are great to scribble idly on while having a conversation. A different part of my brain is engaged doing the drawing, so generally I can still follow and take part in the conversation. This isn’t […]
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March 26, 2014
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March 2014 Monthly Montreal Comic Jam
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, collaboration, color, Coloured Pencils, montreal, Rick Gagnon, sketchesIt’s been a while since I’ve shown my face at one of these. Also, the last post on this topic got wiped out in my server crash. Since it paid tribute to a late friend, I’m going to have to put it back together again. Still, even though I had to be reminded and coaxed, […]
March 23, 2014
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Another Candidate
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, heads, montreal, pencil, sketches, womenOf course, I couldn’t resist drawing the opponent of the Candidate below. Beauty is as beauty does, or so they say!
March 23, 2014
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Candidate
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, pencil, sketches, womenPolitics aside, for some reason I had to draw the local Liberal Party Candidate. (I feel like my face drawing is progressing) I’m actually most likely voting Green, or for the lady with the moustache.
March 14, 2014
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Cosplayer
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, heads, womenI love drawing different types of people. So boring always the same colour of skin. Doing these things fast and furiously seems to help. I may actually fix them later.
March 14, 2014
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Tyrian from Game of Thrones
By Jack Ruttan in digital, headsI just did this and have no idea whether it’s good or not. Fun to do. I may get sour on it later.
March 14, 2014
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Sketchy-Sketchy
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, pencil, sketches, watercolorI’m always drawing. It’s my nature. Haven’t been posting much of what I’ve been drawing, but thought I’d change that. An imaginary guy in blue. Below, a phone doodle drawn on scrap paper, and other characters and sketches.
February 26, 2014
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Bluebeard and Friends
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, pen and ink, watercolourInspired by this engraving by Gustave Doré, I did this picture: Bonus young Anita Ekberg:
February 26, 2014
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Morning Pages
By Jack Ruttan in pen and ink, pencil, sketches, watercolourI didn’t draw all of these today. Just was tardy in uploading them. Here are a few of my pals from the Montreal Monthly Comic Jam. Actually, this is last month’s meeting. There was another last night, but I didn’t have the energy to go. Here I was in a bit of a pissy mood, […]
February 22, 2014
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RIP Judy Mappin
By Jack Ruttan in montreal. She was really one of Canadian literature’s heroes. I think bookstores (along with book festivals) are a kind of conduit through which authors and readers can keep in touch with each other. Social media, too, but the events allow for face to face contact. When I was a newcomer to Montreal, I felt like […]
February 21, 2014
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Drawings of Me, from Thailand
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, collaboration, ruttan's placeThese fell out of an old book. They’re from the time in Thailand in 2008 when I went over to help organize an art exhibition of Montreal Comic artists. I think I’d put them away because I felt it would be narcissistic to put them up. Well, no more, really. If I’m drawing people, it’s […]
February 19, 2014
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Decontamination by Jack Ruttan
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, ruttan's place, writingPardon me, this is a little more restoration. This time of a post that apparently dropped off after my server disaster of a couple of months ago. People I’ve met might be interested in it, so I’m putting it up again. It’s a contest entry of mine, which won “entry of the day” for CBC […]
February 19, 2014
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Car-Free Day, 2009
By Jack Ruttan in collaboration, comics, montreal, ruttan's placeBrowsing around, trying to resurrect some Jack links, I found this story I hadn’t seen before. I had spent a day in the street with some other cartoonists during “Car-Free Day” in Montreal, drawing comic strips on easels. Car Free day meant that they basically shut down the city core to cars. This isn’t done […]
February 18, 2014
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The Ascension Trilogy Book One — Sins of the Father
By Jack Ruttan in collaboration, digital, ruttan's place, writingI enjoyed doing this book cover for Thelonious Legend, a new author. It’s a young adult story, but really looks to me like one of these cool “underground” or Beat books from the early 1960s. Sounds like a cool story. He’s putting it out himself in various formats. Visit the links below to see: http://www.amazon.com/Thelonious-Legend/e/B00II6GJZS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1392693408&sr=8-1 […]