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Archive for the ‘heads’ Category
January 12, 2018
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Morning Faces, and off to the Races!
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, heads, pencil, Portraits
January 10, 2018
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Childhood Friends and a Cryptic Motto
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, heads, Portraits, sketches
December 30, 2017
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Further Faces!
By Jack Ruttan in color, Gouache, heads, paintingsAlways drawing things.
October 7, 2017
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Sketchbook People
By Jack Ruttan in heads, pencil, Portraits, sketchesPeople in the real world fly by, and it’s hard to catch them. So one uses imagination, and skills gained by practice to capture them. Then there’s drawing from a photograph, which is basically analyzing shapes, and not that creative for me. Still, it produces a convincing result, and I learn something in the […]
August 28, 2017
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Digital Dame
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, womenDigital painting, on the bigger computer again. Trying to do what’s called “glazing,” using my “natural brushes.”
August 1, 2017
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By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, heads, horses, men, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
This is sort of a test, in that I’m trying to post something via photos I took with the iPad. Sadly, there are a few things I haven’t figured out, but this is good enough for the time being.
April 20, 2017
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Star Wars-ian Portraits
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, Gouache, heads, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, sketches, womenOf characters whose names all begin with “L,” apparently.
March 2, 2017
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Pencil Portraits
By Jack Ruttan in heads, pencil, Portraits, sketchesI’m actually not fond of drawing from photos, because to me it feels too limiting. However, it’s a good way to improve the practice, and see some new aspects of anatomy, rather than simply drawing things which have worked for me before. Here, I’ve been looking at heads as shapes in space, made up of […]
February 22, 2017
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Small Faces
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, digital, heads, pencil, PortraitsDigital guy based on a scanned-in pencil drawing, and a ballpoint pen Gollum.
February 15, 2017
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Gouache and Red Pencil People
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, Gouache, heads, paintings, pencil, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
December 22, 2016
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Coloured Pencil Things
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, pencil, sketches, women
December 8, 2016
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Star Wars, etc.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenPosting various sketches I’ve been doing. Mainly to do with the new “Star Wars” movie, which I finally saw, and “Emma” by Jane Austen. Star Wars had some pleasant new characters, but it was basically a rehash of the same old plot. I mean where did they find the time and materials to build a […]