Pencil drawings, coloured and otherwise. The title of the post is the title of one of those great old Andy Loomis art technique books. But one I don’t have.
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August 28, 2010
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August Montreal Comic Jam
By Jack Ruttan in horses, sketches, watercolourAfter missing a couple of nights, I finally made it to the monthly Montreal Comic Jam. Took pictures, but now I’m lazy, and put them into a slide show. You can actually click on photos as they pass by above to read info about who’s in them, etc. Enthused about watercolour, I brought my set […]
Tags: Animals, black and white, collaboration, colour, comics, horses, Jeff Leblanc, Marr, Montreal Comic Jam, Richard Gagnon, sketches, watercolour
August 26, 2010
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Keep Kicking that Can Around
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourWas pretty down today, but doing this cheered me up. Just left blank bubbles and squares, then filled them in with whatever. Mainly according to songs I was listening to on the shuffle.
Tags: cartoons, colour, comics, sketches, watercolour
August 26, 2010
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Retirement
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketchesThis is something what I’m going to look like when I’m ready to cash in my life insurance. I understand that when one turns 80, the amount you can take out goes down, for some reason I can’t fathom. That’s probably a different cat than present, unless Mr. Boggedy has some strange abilities I’m not […]
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, men, sketches
August 25, 2010
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p.s.
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, ruttan's placeThe Park party is happening Saturday, Sept. 11. The website for it is here – http://parcmedericmartin.wordpress.com/
Tags: montreal, ruttan's place
August 25, 2010
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Not the Usual Face Painter
By Jack Ruttan in UncategorizedYou don’t want me for your childrens’ face painter. There’s a community thing happening in a week or two at Parc Mederic Martin, a neglected little park a block or two east of here. It’s based on a sort of Parisian model of the park with the long centre walk, but left to seed. The […]
Tags: cartoons, Richard Gagnon
August 23, 2010
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Busy or Bizzay?
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, watercolourJust another watercolour thing to keep the blog rolling along. At least I did some useful work today! Gotta feed the cats.
Tags: colour, men, sketches, watercolour
August 22, 2010
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Always Brush Your Koi
By Jack Ruttan in menThis is the first drawing I’ve done with my Koi water brush. Explanation here, on my Tumblr blog. The tumblr is more for ramblings of mine that can’t be contained on twitter. This will be my more formal blog, and sketch blog. Trying to separate the two of them. I am large! I can contain […]
Tags: men
August 21, 2010
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Retro Lines
By Jack Ruttan in dogs, sketches, womenI’m way more comfortable drawing in a spidery scratchy way than I am making the slick lines that seem popular in animation and graphic art these days. Still, fun to try. Doing some construction is also helping me with the heads and bodies. Part of the trouble with being self-taught as an artist, is that […]
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, dogs, sketches, women
August 20, 2010
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By Jack Ruttan in sketches, women
Worked hard today. Drew some silly things in the meantime. I’m sorry.
Tags: ballpoint pen, black and white, sketches, women
August 18, 2010
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Worst Case Scenario
By Jack Ruttan in men, watercolourDiscussing hats, and drawing them, on twitter. Dylan Meconis offered a tutorial on her blog on how to draw tricorn hats. I don’t have big problems with those. But I do with fedoras and cowboy hats. So another artist, Brian Moore, offered me this: Worst-case scenario: ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, THE SINGING COWBOY GANGSTER. So, of course […]
Tags: men, watercolour
August 18, 2010
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Hey Wow
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolour, womenWeird painting, as usual. But I learned a lot from doing this!
Tags: colour, sketches, watercolour, women
August 16, 2010
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Random Page of Stuff
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, womenI’ve used that title before. This is just a page of drawings. Some of them, mainly that dancing girl, relate to work things. Yay for roller pens!
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, cats, men, sketches, women
August 14, 2010
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Men
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketchesThis is a pencil drawing in my big book. I was too lazy scan it, and stitch it together, so I snapped it instead. Now I feel to lazy to write anything about it. It’s kind of self-explanatory. All my drawings of women at the moment are going to my burlesque project. But I felt […]