It’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….
Archive for the ‘Coloured Pencils’ Category
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, women
March 23, 2025
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Sunday Cat
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, cats, color, Coloured Pencils, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, pencil, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolourInaugurating a new sketchbook!
February 27, 2025
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Ugly Yoda
By Jack Ruttan in Coloured Pencils, heads, pen and ink, pencil, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketchesThis is just another page from my Dollarama Sketchbook. I used to have a deal where I would post whatever I drew that day, whether it was nice or not, but I’m trying to get back into nicer paintings. So watch this space. (I’ve got a lot of updating to do on my website […]
February 20, 2025
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Sketchbooks and word balloons
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, comics, digital, heads, men, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolourNot totally sure about the angry guy face, but that’s what’s happening at the moment in my sketchbooks. The person in the snow suit was real. No penguin, though. That was in honour of Matthew Brown, who sent me a hard copy of his book this week. Penguin Detective — The Case of No Case.
February 15, 2025
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February Front Window
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, pencil, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolourWatercolour 5″x7″ Nicer paper this time….
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 […]
August 5, 2023
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Yelling People!
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, heads, pencil, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenI have to update my blog, template and all, to add new, modern things. I hope not a ton of pop-ups, etcetera. Still, this is a recent sketchbook page I actually worked on today! I’m setting up a Patreon link, and also have a cool illustration thing I’m going to share soon! Please stay tuned!
December 6, 2021
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More sketchbookery
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, Coloured Pencils, pencil, sketches, watercolor, womenPictures done from reference are more “realistic,” but not as much fun to draw as more cartoony things. I sort of adore the way ballpoint pens “blob.” Other artists wipe the point, I think, in between doing cross-hatching lines.
February 25, 2021
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Feeling Neglected
By Jack Ruttan in Coloured Pencils, pencil, sketchesMy blog and I have been through some times. But since the advent of Facebook and Instagram and all of those corporate web things, the blog has been sort of neglected as of late. I used to post here daily, putting up whatever I had drawn that day, good bad, or indifferent. I still draw […]
January 21, 2020
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New Coloured Pencils
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, men, pencil, Portraits, ruttan's place, sketches, womenA generous friend sent me a set of 168 wooden coloured pencils. (Is it “coloured” or “colour”? The last one sounds slightly illiterate.) I’ve taken them out of their packaging, where they were inaccessible, and put them into yogurt containers, where I can reach them and see what I’m drawing with. Some of the pencils […]
December 13, 2019
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Various Pages
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, machines, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolourIt’s hard thinking of witty titles for these things. I’m putting up more pages. Not the stuff I did the other night when I couldn’t sleep. That was weird and also messy.
December 5, 2019
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Blatant Sketchbookery
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Coloured Pencils, Gouache, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourFor some reason I’m back into the blog. I don’t think anyone goes here, and the “Blogoshphere” has become a little like one of those abandoned theme parks adventurers like to seek out. Anyhow, I’m baaaaaakk. Not posting as much as I used to, just cool stuff out of the sketchbooks, which are taking too […]