Not sure what to say about this, except it was a bit of work. I described this strip to a twitter friend, now I’ve forgotten her name. Will try to look back and find her.
Tags: comics, watercolour
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February 14, 2012
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Lazy Blog Post
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, womenI’m behind on things, also wasting time on facebook. Still drawing, but not blogging as much as I might. Well, here are some things. First of all, I’m messing around with the “Gaussian Blur” and figuring out what it takes to paint things over a loose pencil drawing in photoshop: It’s from a tacky source […]
February 10, 2012
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Dropped Dip Pen
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, watercolourThis always happens when I drop one of those dip pens. It sticks into the floor like a dagger in an Indiana Jones movie. Bye bye nice nib!
Tags: cartoons, Nora the cat, ruttan's place, watercolour
February 8, 2012
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Spoons
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's placeMy friend once used a spoon at my place, and remarked about it. She told me they were better quality than I imagined, and could look much nicer. I hadn’t thought much about them. They were grimy old spoons that I’d been using for ages, which I had taken with me to Montreal from my […]
Tags: ruttan's place
February 8, 2012
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Electronic Rights (E-rights) Class Action Activity
By Jack Ruttan in UncategorizedAuthor Mary Soderstrom gives a concise explanation of the ERDC’s (Electronic-Rights Defence Committee) class action on behalf of Canadian freelancers. [link] We’ve been working on this for almost 14 years now. But things are happening. Keep track of the ERDC’s web site to follow the legal fun.
Tags: Activism, current events, ERDC
February 6, 2012
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Cat Poop Collector
By Jack Ruttan in UncategorizedI attempt to explain the cat poop collector, a device which has puzzled me this week. No, you don’t get to know what’s wrong with my cat. It’s disgusting, but not fatal, and I hope will be cleared up with a couple of pills, soon. UPDATE: The cat poop collector failed completely. I brought it […]
Tags: current events, Nora the cat
February 6, 2012
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Watercolour Baby and Other Things.
By Jack Ruttan in men, paintings, sketches, watercolourActually painted a portrait of somebody’s baby the other week. Looked nothing like this one, who was just practice for baby paintings. Can’t show the portrait, because it hasn’t been given to the recipient yet. Then there’s this freaky smiling guy, again rendered in good old-fashioned watercolour.
Tags: men, paintings, sketches, watercolour
February 4, 2012
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Pile of Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in men, paintings, sketches, watercolour, womenThese are simple, but done with different techniques and programs. Up above is purely digital, drawn and painted in Photoshop. The guy below was drawn in Adobe Illustrator according to a pencil sketch, then coloured in Photoshop. I’m happy with the ink lines I’m able to create, and they’re fast to do, too. This strange […]
Tags: colour, digital, men, paintings, sketches, vectors, wash, watercolour, women
January 26, 2012
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Passel of Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, womenI sketch a lot more than I put up here. Thought it was time for some of those. Mainly out of my head, while watching DVDs, or live, in some cases. Those always make the best poses.
Tags: ballpoint pen, men, Pen & Ink, sketches, women
January 23, 2012
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Man and Monster,coloured
By Jack Ruttan in UncategorizedI’m still adventuring in colouring sketches, and hence, cartoons. Difficult to figure out what’s too much, because I like the original drawing, done in roller pen in the sketchbook, just fine. But these flat colours with subtle gradations are all right. I also have to work on my colour sense, to let things blend into […]
Tags: ballpoint pen, colour, digital, digital
January 19, 2012
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All-digital Airplane
By Jack Ruttan in paintingsThis took me a bit of time, but taught me a lot about digital painting, and making clean lines in illustrator and photoshop. It started life as one of my silly little sketches, so it’s not a real kind of airplane. I’m experimenting with different lines to see which ones are the prettiest and fastest […]
January 17, 2012
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Wacom Intuous 4 – the scratchable pen tablet
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's placeElectronics – do they make your life easier, or simply more costly and complex? I’ve blogged about my exploding toothbrush, now it’s the saga of the scratchable tablet. All six of you regular blog visitors may have noted I’ve got a new, expensive toy — a Wacom Intuous 4 tablet, which has replaced my Wacom […]
Tags: Activism, digital, ruttan's place