Gotta get to sleep! Here’s a picture of a green couple that I liked.
Tags: Animals, cats, colour, men, sketches, watercolour, women
Archive for the ‘cats’ Category
February 21, 2011
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Light Box Mark II
By Jack Ruttan in cats, ruttan's place, sketchesAs related in an earlier post on my tumblr blog, this year I built a light box, to trace drawings for watercolours. It was made out of a cardboard box my scanner came in, a couple of dollar store LED light bars, and a square of frosted glass I’d found in an alley. It was […]
Tags: Brush Pen, cartoons, cats, colour, ruttan's place, sketches
February 20, 2011
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Sunday Things
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, womenI’m not relating to Sundays much. Thought I’d get some time off, but I’ve got to prepare for a meeting and some work. Still, I found time to sketch these things. Small cat, and some dame. I don’t call them watercolours because they involve the brush pen, and aren’t pure. I like modelling things in […]
Tags: Animals, Brush Pen, cats, colour, Nora the cat, sketches, wash, women
January 5, 2011
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Cats and the Creative Process
By Jack Ruttan in catsHere’s another of those old strips of mine. Worked on at the comic jam, mainly by Rick Gagnon, over my scribbly pencils. Hence the odd faces here and there. Still funny, though. I’m running out of these, but have a few more tricks up my sleeve before I’ll have to start drawing stuff again.
Tags: Animals, cats, collaboration, comics, Montreal Comic Jam, Richard Gagnon
December 15, 2010
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Christmas Card 2010
By Jack Ruttan in catsGot this printed up and sent out, so I feel like I can “share” it now. Noting that other illustrators are doing more than one design. But aside from maybe painting a quick neighbourhood snowscape that’s it for me. Took me a while, because the challenge I set for myself was to learn more about […]
November 17, 2010
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The Usual Obsessive Stuff
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, watercolour, womenThe usual guys blankly staring, cats, and below, cute chicks. Just because I go out to events doesn’t mean I’m not a strange recluse. It just means there are a lot of events happening. But the video stuff is fun. Takes a long time to upload. My next challenge there is finding music I can […]
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, Burlesque, cats, colour, men, Nora the cat, sketches, wash, watercolour, women
November 9, 2010
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Back to Jack
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, paintings, sketches, watercolour, womenFinished with the labour-intensive event chronicling for now, and back to boring little drawings. They don’t attract as many hits! Still, I’m very happy to have started using the Sony Vegas editing program, and mastered at least a few of the basics. (can’t imagine wanting to use many of those tacky special effects and wipes, […]
Tags: Animals, cats, colour, men, paintings, sketches, watercolour, women
October 17, 2010
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Still More Zombies…
By Jack Ruttan in cats, dogs, sketches, watercolour…And evil cats! Devil Dog… Here’s smiling business guy: Anyhow, I’m offering you, in internet land, to have your own portrait, facebook photo, or twitter avatar, turned into your favourite monster, for hallowe’en, or indeed any time of year. Building the page right now where this would be possible. In the meantime, visit this page […]
September 8, 2010
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Exercise
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, watercolourThis looks a little different form my usual thing, because I was doing an exercise from a watercolour book. That means copying another artist’s strokes as closely as possible. I learn stuff from this, but hate doing it. Took some snaps below, so you can see the book, and the reference. I’m also bored by […]
Tags: Animals, cats, colour, 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 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 13, 2010
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Pencils
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, womenBought these pencils at a new art store I saw, that had opened up on Laurier Street near Papineau. There used to be a framing shop which had a smattering of art supplies. Now, I guess they thought they’d move out and expand the art supplies. This is welcome, because there’s a dearth of independent […]
Tags: Animals, black and white, cats, men, pencil, sketches, women
August 3, 2010
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New Art, and Tumblr
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, watercolour, womenI’ve discovered tumblr, which at the moment is where I’m putting a lot of ranting and rambling I’d like to get out of my system. This is good, because it makes me feel more productive in general. No reason I can’t do that here, however. But we’ll see how it goes. I like keeping things […]
Tags: Animals, black and white, Brush Pen, cats, colour, men, sketches, watercolour, women
August 1, 2010
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Finicky Darn Watercolours
By Jack Ruttan in cats, menGosh, watercolours are so tough! All those many things to control. And things can go wrong so easily. You need skill, and also, I’m finding out, strong confidence to carry it off. Good abilities to practice. I’m obviously not the super-smooth kind of artist like Jim Woodring or Vargas, but it’s fun to work on […]