Just a red ochre pencil. Various objects and figures.
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February 1, 2011
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Robert Smith draws Yours Truly
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesHad coffee the other day with Robert Smith, a writer and translator. He drew this great portrait of me!
Tags: sketches
January 31, 2011
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More Doodling…
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, watercolour, women…in colour, this time.
Tags: colour, men, sketches, watercolour, women
January 29, 2011
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Cowboys
By Jack Ruttan in horses, men, sketches, womenCowboys, in ball-point pen, and roller pen.
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, horses, men, sketches, women
January 28, 2011
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Fillin’ in pages
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, womenThis is my black and white book, which doesn’t take colour all that well (except when it’s all I’ve got!). Still, it’s fun to draw in black and white with the brush pen, and various roller pens. Not as elite as the dip pen, however. But still pleasant to scratch back and forth, making those […]
Tags: ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, men, sketches, women
January 26, 2011
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January Montreal Comic Jam
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesSomething a little different. JM Ken Niimura shows off his sketchbook (actually, divided among 5 artists) at last night’s Montreal Comic Jam. Rick Gagnon is there in the background. You can follow along, and discover these artists’ websites. Thanks to JM they are (in order): Enrique Lorenzo: http://enriquelorenzo.blogspot.com/ JM Ken Niimura:http://niimurablog.blogspot.com/ Alfonso Salazar: http://alfonso-salazar.blogspot.com/ Christian […]
Tags: Montreal Comic Jam, sketches
January 24, 2011
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Office Worker
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolour, womenSaw this pose on a poster for a play the other day, and drew my memory of it.
Tags: Burlesque, sketches, wash, watercolour, women
January 18, 2011
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Women in Bathing Suits, etc.
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolour, womenI’ve not been drawing tons. Trying to settle back into things, and relax. Cartoonists on Twitter are helping me do this, mainly through examples of their work. The figure in blue is mainly copied from a Love and Rockets comic panel. I think i like getting more into cartoony oddness, but enjoy trying to make […]
Tags: colour, sketches, watercolour, women
January 16, 2011
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The Apparition of These Faces in the Crowd…
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, women…Petals on a wet, black bough. Face sketches I’ve been doing, on the Metro, and at parties. Sometimes from TV!
Tags: ballpoint pen, black and white, men, pencil, sketches, women
January 13, 2011
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More Gag Panels
By Jack Ruttan in UncategorizedI think there are more, but I can’t find them. Should have pretended I was reprinting them from some long-dead Men’s or Family magazine. And this popped up on Twitter just as I was writing this post, and I can’t resist: http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2011/01/saturday-evening-post-scrapbook-part-24.html
Tags: black and white, cartoons, collaboration, Richard Gagnon
January 12, 2011
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Gag Cartoons 1
By Jack Ruttan in UncategorizedI wrote and drew a few gag cartoons, which my pal Rick Gagnon inked in his usual impeccable way. We submitted them to Reader’s Digest, who wasn’t bowled over, so they found a home in Rick’s zine, and now are here on the web. Jeff Leblanc did the masthead. Hey, I was aiming for humour […]
Tags: cartoons, collaboration, Jeff Leblanc, Richard Gagnon
January 10, 2011
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Metro Colour
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, watercolour, womenStill really haven’t gotten the blog back on its wheels since the holiday break. I have a host of excuses! Mainly busy with work and stuff. But there are some interesting things coming up! That’s if I’m not distracted by twitter, or doing meaningless graphics in illustrator. Happy to be making at least a little […]
Tags: colour, men, sketches, watercolour, women
January 5, 2011
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Coffee
By Jack Ruttan in UncategorizedToday’s strip is called “Coffee.” I think it was inspired by this machine at the Ontario Science Centre, that said the word “coffee,” and you could alter the inflection by turning a knob so that it sounded like a question. I wonder if that machine is still around? This was originally published in my friend […]
Tags: comics, Richard Gagnon
January 5, 2011
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Cats and the Creative Process
By Jack Ruttan in catsHere’s another of those old strips of mine. Worked on at the comic jam, mainly by Rick Gagnon, over my scribbly pencils. Hence the odd faces here and there. Still funny, though. I’m running out of these, but have a few more tricks up my sleeve before I’ll have to start drawing stuff again.
Tags: Animals, cats, collaboration, comics, Montreal Comic Jam, Richard Gagnon