So it goes….
Archive for the ‘ballpoint pen’ Category
June 21, 2025
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Another Nonce Cat Drawing
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, color, paintings, self-promotion, sketches, watercolour
June 13, 2025
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Station Peeeeeel…………
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, children, color, men, montreal, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
June 9, 2025
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Thinking of Miyazaki….
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, digital, heads, men, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourI was watching the Miyazaki movie THE BOY AND THE HERON recently, and it inspired me to draw this guy. The scary old man hiding inside the heron disguise. I’ll get away from drawing guys in yellow shirts soon, but this is what’s been coming up lately. So there you go….
April 12, 2025
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Pig and Man
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, brush pen, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, men, pen and ink, sketchesColoured pencil, ball point pen, and Pentel Brush Pen.
April 11, 2025
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Carre St. Louis
By Jack Ruttan in Art Criticism, ballpoint pen, black and white, montreal, parks, sketchesDidn’t have my paints with me, but this is a sketch of Carre St. Louis, looking towards the (dry) fountain, from the St. Denis side. Could be worse!
March 25, 2025
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Train Doodles and More
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, color, Coloured Pencils, digital, Gouache, heads, paintings, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, Uncategorized, watercolor, watercolour, womenIt’s a new sketchbook! These things are expensive. I’m thinking I should be like Chester Brown, and not worry about my legacy. Because I’ll be gone, and then people can fight over the old books, if they want to….
March 10, 2025
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Chrystia
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, digital, Gouache, heads, paintings, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenInstead of doing important drawings for which there is a firm deadline, I watched politics on my big TV instead. Lots of long speeches. I liked Chrystia Freeland’s face, so I drew that in my Dollarama sketchbook, with my amazing Winsor and Newton Series 150 Chinese brush. I don’t know if it’s actually a Chinese […]
March 1, 2025
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Hairy Guy in Green
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, heads, pen and ink, self-promotion, sketchesDrawn last year, at least according to the number beside the signature. I’ll try to get into comics more, eventually! Got some interesting old family stuff, as well. So I can post a bit of that, too.
February 24, 2025
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Garlic People
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, old comics, pen and ink, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, womenHere are some garlic people for Patti, my former showrunner turned chef, and a little R. Crumb-like drawing.
February 11, 2025
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Boop!
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, old comics, paintings, pen and ink, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
January 26, 2025
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Space Lady
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, sketches, watercolor, womenThis is a drawing out of an old sketchbook. I’m getting back into comics and things, I promise…..
May 12, 2024
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Green Hair
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
April 26, 2024
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April Blog
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, montreal, paintings, pencil, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolourHere we are, in my old-fashioned editor, putting up pictures from my sketchbook into my old-fashioned blog. I used to know how to write CSS, and make pretty styles for text and paragraphs. Not to mention the tags for these illustrations. Haven’t done much of that for a long while! I listened to a […]