A couple of quick digital paintings I did on my little computer (an Asus EEE subnotebook) while chatting with a friend. This is good, because it means I’m generally getting more relaxed with it! Still so much to learn. Check this page, for instance. I should post most of my useful digital painting training links, […]
Archive for the ‘cats’ Category
March 29, 2012
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Sherwin Tjia Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, ruttan's placeAs the artist promised, Sherwin Tjia has sent me this sketch of a cat. The postman folded it, of course, but I am flattening it out.
February 29, 2012
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Various Watercolour Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, watercolour, womenYe Huntyng Catt Keanu (Feel the Heat?) A California Woman Little Watercolour People
February 28, 2012
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Scoundrels and Shady Dealings
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, watercolour, women
February 24, 2012
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Some More Painting
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, womenThe digital thing is frustrating, because of all the switches you have to throw (if you start working on the wrong layer, then you’re lost). Also, I keep losing brushes I like. In Photoshop, those are collections of settings and sometimes an image. This can all be solved, but it’s a learning curve for me. […]
February 22, 2012
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More Cats, and Star Trek People
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, womenMy sketches have become a little more, um, “sketchy” since I’ve been on this digital art kick. Still drawing, however, and the books are filling up with pencil drawings, actually drawing in all kinds of media, since it really doesn’t matter if I can mess with the lines and colours. So, I’ve been enjoying my […]
January 17, 2012
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Digital and Ballpoint Pen Critters (and folk)
By Jack Ruttan in cats, horses, paintings, sketches, womenStill playing with the digital painting. I think I get so carried away with the technical challenge I sometimes forget to make an interesting picture. Hence this horse, not doing much of anything. George Stubbs I am not! Actually, without the “ink” lines, this looks a lot like one of those paint by numbers kits. […]
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, horses, paintings, sketches, women
January 13, 2012
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Edith Scissorpaws
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketchesYoung Nora was being obstreperous, as is easy to see from this photo, and she got my little finger this morning as I was trying to take something breakable away from her. So I’ve given her a new identity, as below: So there.
Tags: Animals, black and white, cats, digital, Nora the cat, sketches
December 14, 2011
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F-F-f-faces!
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, watercolour, womenStill painting random faces, from DVDs, and my squirming imagination. Kind of enjoying it at the moment. Some bonus kitty-cats as well.
Tags: Animals, cats, men, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour, women