Archive for the ‘digital’ Category

March 10, 2025 0

Chrystia

By in ballpoint pen, color, digital, Gouache, heads, paintings, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

Instead 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 […]

February 28, 2025 0

Clip Studio Trees

By in color, digital, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, Uncategorized

Here’s a painting I made in Clip Studio Paint, with my $80 Huion Tablet, which I bought years ago. I’m just trying stuff out. I like the “Add Texture” feature of the program, which makes it look like you’ve used real paper.

February 20, 2025 0

Sketchbooks and word balloons

By in color, Coloured Pencils, comics, digital, heads, men, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Not 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.

March 8, 2023 0

Whoever this guy is…..

By in color, digital, Portraits, sketches

September 4, 2022 0

Puck the Dog!

By in digital, dogs

    Here’s a little picture of a dog I did for a birthday card. I was a little influenced by this artist I know on Twitter. Sometimes it’s hard drawing dogs, and making the eyes not creepy. Adding a little white often helps, but some people just do “people eyes.” Or dots, as in […]

June 19, 2022 0

Childhood Dog

By in digital, dogs, paintings

Drawn in Clip Studio Paint on my old Huion Tablet. My childhood dog “Pimmy.”

January 18, 2022 0

MLK

By in digital, heads, Portraits, women

This is a little late for Martin Luther King Day, but I drew him a couple of years ago, for an article for Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre. It’s called It Can Happen Here, and it’s written by Ron Boyer.

October 2, 2020 0

New Profile Pic

By in digital, self-promotion, sketches

I like drawing green monster boys. Did this one as quickly as I could, on the digital.

September 11, 2020 0

Bat Boy

By in digital, paintings, sketches

I’ve not been playing with the blog for a while, and something got broken. I’ve fixed that, and backed everything up, I think, so here’s another post! If this makes it to Instagram, I will be very happy.

February 5, 2020 0

Digital Cattery

By in cats, color, digital, sketches

I’m getting more cosy with the digital tools; painting on the computer. Still, I want to be more disciplined, and paint things that would look good in a portfolio. That means doing things with an eye towards pleasing people, rather than whatever strangeness comes out of my head. It’s difficult to explain. I can draw […]

January 23, 2020 0

Spiky Hair

By in color, digital, men

I’m afraid I’m avoiding watercolours by drawing things such as this. He’s sort of true to this drawing software, which started life out as “Manga Studio.”

December 8, 2019 0

Sober Cat

By in cats, digital, pencil, sketches

April 13, 2019 0

Puddle Brush Cat

By in digital

I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve not been posting here in a long while, and I almost lost the blog to some sort of server issue, so I got the blog back, and I thought I should post something. Here it is.

October 2, 2018 0

Scattered Brush

By in color, digital

Digital painting still isn’t coming easy to me, but I’m happy with the look I can get when I applied “scatter” to my usual drawing brush. I don’t even have to delete the underlying lines. Just paint over them. And this has got a pleasing chalk-like effect to me. So different from my usual watercolour. […]