The coarse cardboard at the back of the sketchbook is nice for drawing with certain types of tools. Here I used colour pencils, and also colour ballpoint pens. Then, a more normal drawing (in execution at least) from the middle of the book, based on one of Big Daddy Roth’s dragster-driving monsters. I used to […]
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May 15, 2012
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Back of the Book
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, machines, pen and ink, pencil, sketches
May 8, 2012
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Maurice Sendak
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, sketchesHere’s my impression of the late Maurice Sendak, from a documentary I’m watching about him on youtube at the moment. UPDATE: Link is down, too bad. Here’re some salient things from it, on another blog: [link].
Tags: ballpoint pen, sketches
May 4, 2012
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Sketch-pourri
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, men, pen and ink, pencil, sketches, womenDarn. That implies “rotten” in French. I was trying to evoke “pot-pourri” as in variety, a kind of goulash of drawings. Anyhow, above is a haughty dame perfectly dressed in a retro outfit. I was happy to see her the other day. The view from the balcony is getting interesting again. Well, not today, because […]
Tags: ballpoint pen, pencil, sketches
May 3, 2012
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The Punk Lives
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, comics, digital, Skinny Nameless PunkI’ve learned a lot of crazy inking tools in Adobe Illustrator, and with this study, am happy I’m going to be able to continue my comic, The Skinny Nameless Punk. This is with the blessing of my sometime collaborator/inker Rick Gagnon, with whom I originated the character. Now the thing is to draw a bunch […]
April 25, 2012
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DC Books Launch at Blue Metropolis
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, montreal, pen and ink, sketches, womenWent to a launch, which was really a reading, of books by some friends of mine. I like to sketch during these things, but this time I found that drawing the people sitting around listening was more interesting than drawing the readers. Once, long ago, I had decided to draw every author whose reading I […]
April 25, 2012
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Small Cat and Food Dish
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, pen and ink, sketches
April 20, 2012
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Street Painting, Sketches, Portraits
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, digital, dinosaurs, men, pen and ink, sketches, watercolour, womenA little of everything here. A watercolour painting up above. Coloured pic of Jean Paul Belmondo from the movie Stavisky below. Sketches, one perhaps not so wisely coloured. I’m interested in what dinosaurs looked like, because I have the lumbering old-style beasts still stuck in my head. This Tyrannosaurus has a few feathers, which surprises […]
Tags: digital, dinosaurs, sketches, watercolour
April 12, 2012
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I’m Still Figuring this Digital Thing Out!
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, digital, men, paintings, pencil, sketches, womenIt will be nice when I can reliably produce images i’m happy with. Anyhow, it’s fun to play with, if a little time-consuming. I’m not a portrait type (that’s why I’m working on these!), but the machine has tools (particularly Photoshop’s “Liquefy”) which allows you to make little adjustments to a picture which would otherwise […]
Tags: digital
April 4, 2012
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Cat Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, color, pen and ink, pencil, sketchesI’m afraid I’m going for the simple SEO on the title here. If you’re not aware, that means “Search Engine Optimisation,” and is where people put words in that they think will be used in Google-type searches, to win more views for their article. Still, cats are pretty popular on the internet (as if you […]