I love (and fear) monsters, so draw them a lot. The above (“Jasconius the Friendly Whale”) has little to do with Saint Brendan, except it’s something I drew remembering a National Geographic Society map of his voyages. The real story is different. More ball-point pen-drawn monsters below, and a guy. Stories are long-winded, so I’ll […]
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July 10, 2012
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Flowers and Trees
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, paintings, sketches, watercolourFor a job that’s taking longer than it should (these are the lazy days of summer, after all), I’ve been painting flowers. It’s outside my comfort zone, but that’s why I take these tasks on, to learn new things. The clematis above aren’t perfect (mainly a matter of colour), but I’m working on it today. […]
July 8, 2012
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More Watercolour Things
By Jack Ruttan in cats, dinosaurs, men, Nora the cat, watercolour, women
July 6, 2012
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Pen Mischief
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, womenI’ve been drawing and painting a lot, but not blogging much. Will try to remedy that today. So here are some pen drawings with the amazing erasable gel pen in different colours. La la. Need to practice my landscapes. Well, that’s what this is for! Everyone should draw, everyday. But I don’t want to sound […]
June 14, 2012
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Another New Sketchbook
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, dogs, men, sketches, womenThat’s about the size of it. This one is cheaper, and fits not too badly into the scanner. I’ve been away drawing things, so I thought I may as well put up everything I’ve been doing until now in one blow. These were drawn with a pilot frixion gel pen, which has the virtue of […]
June 8, 2012
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I’m Not Dead!
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, men, pencil, womenJust away from the scanner for a bit. Please don’t send search parties after me. You can see me lurking in Verdun!
May 29, 2012
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Women, Faces, and Horses
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, horses, men, pencil, watercolour, womenI like drawing wreckage, also pretty women. They don’t really go together, except perhaps in a fashion mag.
May 23, 2012
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More Faces
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, cats, men, pen and ink, sketches, womenMore faces, like it said up top, but this time I’m inking them with the brush pen, so they’re not as scratchy. Not sure which I prefer. Above are Liv Tyler from The Lord of the Rings, two faces from the DVD cover for “Sky Captain,” and the sinister Conrad Black, recently released from prison […]
May 20, 2012
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Faces
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, sketches, womenStuff I drew the other day. Still drawing … you can’t stop me!
May 16, 2012
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People and Feet
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, montreal, pen and ink, sketches, womenDrawing this morning on the balcony, before the rains came. People walking by, mainly moms and dads back from delivering kids to the nearby day care. Bonus: a sensitive portrait of my foot.
May 15, 2012
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Back of the Book
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, machines, pen and ink, pencil, sketchesThe coarse cardboard at the back of the sketchbook is nice for drawing with certain types of tools. Here I used colour pencils, and also colour ballpoint pens. Then, a more normal drawing (in execution at least) from the middle of the book, based on one of Big Daddy Roth’s dragster-driving monsters. I used to […]
May 10, 2012
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Brown Studies
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, dinosaurs, machines, men, sketches, womenBought some fun new pens (called “Pilot FriXion Ball” gel pens, in brown, .5 mm and .7mm respectively, plus a new sketchbook, because those were on sale at the art store). So I decided to sketch with them using brown pencils to embellish, as necessary. “Brown Studies” is not what the name really means, which […]
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