Tough doing plain backgrounds…
Tags: colour, horses, watercolour
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March 15, 2009
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A Really Terrible Party…
By Jack Ruttan in watercolourOr maybe a fun one, if you’re into it.
Tags: colour, watercolour
March 14, 2009
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Beers and Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesMore drawing from the other night, meeting with friends at the Cock N’ Bull bar. Rick Gagnon was there. Marr was there, too, but he didn’t stay long enough to draw anything. Still, Rick was able to ink things like this drawing above of mine of one of the servers. Below is my drawing, embellished […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches
March 12, 2009
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Rabbit Rider
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourThis warrior character fears his masculinity is being compromised by his having to ride a giant quarter-rabbit. But the villagers will probably be as terrified as ever. He should have and painted frightening runes on the sides of his mount, and tied victims’ skulls to the saddle, in order to increase the menacing effect.
Tags: colour, sketches, watercolour
March 11, 2009
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Creative License
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesHere’s something fun. This caricature I did of former Prime Minister, the late John Diefenbaker, is going into an upcoming political documentary. Rather than just downloading it and using it, they were nice enough to ask, and we negotiated a fee. That’s classy, and it’s nice to think of something of yours sticking around, maybe […]
Tags: black and white, Film & TV, sketches
March 10, 2009
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Getting Out
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourAbove, some fantasy with the Queen of the Fridge. Below, one of the first of the season’s real-life sketches.
Tags: colour, sketches, watercolour
March 9, 2009
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Guitar Heroine
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourAnd some mono-chromatic characters:
Tags: black and white, colour, pencil, sketches, wash, watercolour
March 8, 2009
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Westmount Greenhouse
By Jack Ruttan in montrealChange of pace: Took a tour yesterday of Westmount and Notre Dame de Grace (NDG) in Montreal with a friend. Part of it was a walk in the greenhouse attached to the Westmount library. Took pictures, and my friend was gracious enough to identify all the plants in the pictures. You can see the entire […]
March 7, 2009
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Friday Fun
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesLoads of graphical play last night with friends at the Cock N’ Bull Bar. Rick and Marr were also doing crosswords, but those are much less interesting to look at. Above is my interpretation of some pool-playing characters, with a few lines and patches of black added by Rick. Below is Rick’s more graphical version […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches
March 6, 2009
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Dragon Broad
By Jack Ruttan in watercolourThis was a lot of work. Still, if I want one of these pictures to look less silly, I’d have to carefully plan it: do thumbnail drawings for composition, value studies so I could develop a proper colour palette, and then draw my figures from copy. This would involve multiple studies so the proportions and […]
Tags: colour, watercolour
March 5, 2009
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Another Knight
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesLooking at my darned “Lord of the Rings” DVDs again. I find the documentaries and the sketch galleries more interesting than the films! Afraid things are going to look a little warlike here for the next while, because of some projects I’m working on. I don’t love war, but like drawing the accoutrements.
Tags: sketches
March 5, 2009
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Military Footing
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourThe guy above looks pretty formidable. Might be doing some military-themed things in the next while. But most of what there is to do at the moment, is wait for some things to come through. Below, some more characters, including, up top, the late Montreal artist Betty Goodwin.
Tags: colour, planes, sketches, watercolour
March 4, 2009
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Solaris Couple
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourThese are a pair of characters from the beginning of Tarkovsky’s Solaris, which I am watching in the Criterion edition, graciously leant to me by my sketching friend Rick. I think they’re his production manager and co-writer, which he put into his film because they were lucky for him, and also close at hand. The […]
Tags: colour, film and TV, sketches, watercolour
March 3, 2009
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Lara
By Jack Ruttan in watercolourCopied off the back of a comic book. A lot of work. Why do I bother?
Tags: comics, watercolour