Here 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 […]
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
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, watercolour
March 18, 2024
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Dinos
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolor, watercolourI’m actually glad the more recent reconstructions of Tyrannosaurus Rex aren’t as feathery as they were a few years back, when I drew these things. Mainly I’m posting this because I noticed I hadn’t posted anything this year yet, so I wanted to keep the blog more or less fresh. I am paying for the […]
October 24, 2023
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Ninja Turtle
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesThis is actually just a sketch of a guy in the metro I’ve embellished a little. I don’t get much time to draw in the metro, and I certainly can’t watercolour. But it’s fun to play with things in my book, after the fact.
October 14, 2023
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Tree and Cat
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesTags: cats, colour, sketches, watercolour
August 13, 2023
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Jack R.’s Patreon
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI haven’t been able to put this on the sidebar of my site. But I’ve created a Patreon Page. People can visit it, see cool stuff maybe you can’t see here, and make contributions and such-like. It’s what artists are doing these days. You can also write me and ask for a commission. A watercolour […]
August 11, 2023
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Skinny Nameless Punk
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesMy comic strip I created with Richard Gagnon has flown the coop for the moment. I think I need to update my “comicpress” theme, and am afraid they want money from now on. Still, I’m working on it, and in the meanwhile, I did a little drawing of him to practice my digital drawing skills.
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!
July 19, 2023
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Newish Pages
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, color, horses, men, pencil, sketchesNewish sketchbook pages. You know, I used to put up a drawing every day, and felt unhappy if I didn’t. But these days, while I’m still drawing a lot, I’m not blogging as much. Social Media is strange. I loved Twitter, but they seem to be doing as much as they can to ruin it. […]
June 29, 2023
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Old Me
By Jack Ruttan in Gouache, heads, men, self-promotion, sketchesOld old self-portrait. Mid 2000’s, I think.
June 21, 2023
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QE Health
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, sketchesSketches from the waiting room of the Queen Elizabeth Health Centre in Montreal. I was there to accompany a friend. No one seems to mind me doing this. Cat and maus are imaginary….
June 16, 2023
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Gene Luen Yang
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, collaboration, comics, sketchesBack in the early 2000s, I got to do a workshop at Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Book Festival with the great Gene Luen Yang. A movie adaptation of his graphic novel American Born Chinese is currently coming out. The book the movie is based on is an amazing exploration of being young and having a Chinese […]
May 10, 2023
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Guest Cat and Random Bird
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourThings seen outside my friend’s back door window. Painted in watercolour in my cheap Dollarama sketchbook.