Some more sketchbook items, digitally enhanced. I like the texture in the one above, which comes from the back of my work chair Nora the cat enjoys savaging. Textures make digital things more interesting. Above was drawn with a ball point pen. Below is from a photo of Yours Truly, with a black pencil. The […]
Archive for the ‘digital’ Category
November 19, 2012
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This is still fun.
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, digital, heads, men, sketches
September 27, 2012
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Etcetera….
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, digital, horses, pencil, womenStill drawing. Feeling a little burnt out, however.
September 22, 2012
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More heads, literary and otherwise.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, digital, heads, pencil, sketchesBeen drawing a lot of heads, mainly in pencil, for digital painting. It’s a process. I don’t feel as if these are terribly ready, but I wanted to share the process.
September 18, 2012
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TETSUO!
By Jack Ruttan in digital, paintingsI’m colouring more little sketches via Photoshop and my Wacom stylus. While it’s still not a gorgeous drawing, I’ve used a number of effects here, and am not flipping through layers accidentally. What’s that mean, the non-Photoshop user asks? It means the process is so involved, you can’t even complain about it to a non-specialist. […]
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 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 18, 2012
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Pretty Pict-chas
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, men, paintings, sketches, watercolour, womenHere are some digital and watercolour pictures (and blends of both) that I’ve been doing today, and over the weekend. So many things to tell about these, and there are still challenges, and important things to learn. But what’s most important is that I’m feeling comfy with the tools, and having fun. Above is using […]
Tags: digital, men, watercolour, women
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 8, 2012
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Disgruntled Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, digital, sketchesDigital drawing of a cat, from the cover of this week’s Montreal Mirror.
April 2, 2012
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Relaxing
By Jack Ruttan in cats, digital, men, paintingsA 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, […]
March 31, 2012
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Zooey D.
By Jack Ruttan in digital, pencil, womenTrying to draw portraits. I’m cozy in pencil (not so cozy drawing likenesses!). I wonder if it’s bastardization to try and colour a drawing this way, but I’m also practicing my digital chops. Not the prettiest image, technically, but it’s part of my artistic self-education, so I’m putting it up here. I wanted to draw […]
March 29, 2012
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Hey Look, It’s Me!
By Jack Ruttan in digital, ruttan's place, sketchesI wasn’t liking how in the other paintings the hair seemed to have little to do with the rest of the face, so here’s a try in the direction of dealing with that. One also has to pay attention to colours. I like the impressionistic thing, and the brush marks. Those are made with very […]