Archive for the ‘Portraits’ Category
Digital Character
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketchesComics People
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, heads, men, pencil, PortraitsDrawing some guy faces.
Morning Faces, and off to the Races!
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, heads, pencil, PortraitsEleanor Wachtel and Princess Di. What the hey! I don’t know who the guys are.
Childhood Friends and a Cryptic Motto
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, heads, Portraits, sketchesSketchbook 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 […]
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.
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.
Eden Robinson
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, pencil, Portraits, sketches, womenPencil drawing from a photo in the Globe and Mail, done at a friend’s place.
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 […]
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.