I sort of really hate copying other people’s illustrations, but I learned a lot about hair here. She’s on the cover of this book about digital painting, which actually doesn’t tell you a lot about how to do digital painting (but does give you some tips and techniques if you already know what you’re doing. […]
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April 12, 2013
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Uncommon People
By Jack Ruttan in color, watercolorThis is an ogre and his best friend, whom I painted last night, while listening to a digital painting tutorial which basically told me how hard it is to get a job digital painting.
April 11, 2013
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A Need to Relax
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, digital, paintings, womenIt’s actually been a trying time lately. But I’m happy with where these are going. Strange that the cross-hatching looks good, but I rarely use it on watercolours. Feel like it’s cheating, in the same way as a lot of these computer tools I’m using. I think this stems back to when my late mom […]
April 11, 2013
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Black Cat!
By Jack Ruttan in cats, watercolourI’m doing at least a painting a day at the moment. And in standard sizes. Besides this, a lot of images were orphaned when the blog broke down. Think I will put them into a slideshow, just so’s you can see them. Or, a really large post.
April 7, 2013
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Alien Character
By Jack Ruttan in color, watercolourJust a little painting I did today.
April 7, 2013
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Unbroken Blog
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourSome things happened to the blog a couple of weeks ago. It’s back, however. A lot of things are missing, because the blog only reaches to when I did my last backup. I may just put up all the stuff that happens to be missing in one long post. In the meantime, here are a […]
January 14, 2013
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Off the Record
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, ruttan's placeWhile meeting a contact at the Cagibi coffee house in Mile End, Montreal, I drew this gentleman. He was sitting across from me at his own table, giving furtive looks in my direction and at others around him. He wasn’t actually a customer, just seeking a warm place to eat his sandwich. Later on, my […]
January 11, 2013
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This is the Future
By Jack Ruttan in digital, sketchesA drawing achieved with Google Sketchup. Creating such things and then drawing over them solves a lot of perspective and shadowing problems!
January 7, 2013
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Digital Dallyance
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, men, paintings, sketches, womenI’m happier now with how the digital painting has been going. As I’ve been writing there are a lot of controls and switches to master, plus the stylus has a different feeling than a pencil, and is less precise (at least in my hands). But practice is helping, plus the memory of colour mixing for […]
January 4, 2013
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Relative Fandoms
By Jack Ruttan in comics, digital, sketchesMy first Venn Diagram, inspired by a comment from a friend of mine in Facebook. People are already complaining about this over at Facebook, but maybe I can beat The Oatmeal.
December 31, 2012
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New Year’s Kitty
By Jack Ruttan in cats, paintings, watercolourHappy New Year’s!
December 29, 2012
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Random Painting
By Jack Ruttan in color, machines, men, paintings, watercolour, womenLooking through a closet, I found a block of watercolour paper with a few sheets on it. Painted this, while watching a documentary on the late Gerry Anderson — whose shows and spaceships were all over my childhood. The paper was very strange and spongey — hard to get detail onto it. Also, one’s paintings, […]
December 19, 2012
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Christmas Card
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, digitalSent out all my Christmas cards today. Here’s the design I used. Merry Christmas, everyone!
December 18, 2012
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Digital Painting is Tough
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, heads, paintings, sketches, womenI don’t know if it’s wise to put one’s trials up, but this is a blog about process, and I try to put up most of what I draw. Actually, I know I’ve been rather sporadic lately, and will try to remedy that. Still, digital painting in Photoshop is a fascinating process, even though the […]