I’m always drawing. It’s my nature. Haven’t been posting much of what I’ve been drawing, but thought I’d change that. An imaginary guy in blue. Below, a phone doodle drawn on scrap paper, and other characters and sketches.
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
March 14, 2014
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Sketchy-Sketchy
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, pencil, sketches, watercolor
February 26, 2014
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Bluebeard and Friends
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, pen and ink, watercolourInspired by this engraving by Gustave Doré, I did this picture: Bonus young Anita Ekberg:
February 26, 2014
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Morning Pages
By Jack Ruttan in pen and ink, pencil, sketches, watercolourI didn’t draw all of these today. Just was tardy in uploading them. Here are a few of my pals from the Montreal Monthly Comic Jam. Actually, this is last month’s meeting. There was another last night, but I didn’t have the energy to go. Here I was in a bit of a pissy mood, […]
February 11, 2014
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Shirley Temple Thoughts, and Watercolour Faces
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolourA little sad about Shirley Temple, whom it seemed was an icon of indomitable “cute” childhood, and also proof that you could be a child star, and then turn out all right. Drew this image not as a portrait, just as an idea, based on her image. Also did some proper faces from magazines, in […]
December 31, 2013
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Still More Computer Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketchesI can hardly call them “sketches” since they don’t fit in a book. I don’t think much about what I’m doing ahead of time. Hence all the grouchy faces. Still, I enjoy the medium. The one big deal is that computer drawings are hardly ever finished. You do something on paper, it’s done. If something’s […]
April 11, 2013
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Black Cat!
By Jack Ruttan in cats, watercolourI’m doing at least a painting a day at the moment. And in standard sizes. Besides this, a lot of images were orphaned when the blog broke down. Think I will put them into a slideshow, just so’s you can see them. Or, a really large post.
April 7, 2013
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Alien Character
By Jack Ruttan in color, watercolourJust a little painting I did today.
April 7, 2013
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Unbroken Blog
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourSome things happened to the blog a couple of weeks ago. It’s back, however. A lot of things are missing, because the blog only reaches to when I did my last backup. I may just put up all the stuff that happens to be missing in one long post. In the meantime, here are a […]
January 11, 2013
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This is the Future
By Jack Ruttan in digital, sketchesA drawing achieved with Google Sketchup. Creating such things and then drawing over them solves a lot of perspective and shadowing problems!
January 7, 2013
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Digital Dallyance
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, men, paintings, sketches, womenI’m happier now with how the digital painting has been going. As I’ve been writing there are a lot of controls and switches to master, plus the stylus has a different feeling than a pencil, and is less precise (at least in my hands). But practice is helping, plus the memory of colour mixing for […]
January 4, 2013
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Relative Fandoms
By Jack Ruttan in comics, digital, sketchesMy first Venn Diagram, inspired by a comment from a friend of mine in Facebook. People are already complaining about this over at Facebook, but maybe I can beat The Oatmeal.
December 31, 2012
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New Year’s Kitty
By Jack Ruttan in cats, paintings, watercolourHappy New Year’s!
December 29, 2012
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Random Painting
By Jack Ruttan in color, machines, men, paintings, watercolour, womenLooking through a closet, I found a block of watercolour paper with a few sheets on it. Painted this, while watching a documentary on the late Gerry Anderson — whose shows and spaceships were all over my childhood. The paper was very strange and spongey — hard to get detail onto it. Also, one’s paintings, […]
December 18, 2012
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Digital Painting is Tough
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, heads, paintings, sketches, womenI don’t know if it’s wise to put one’s trials up, but this is a blog about process, and I try to put up most of what I draw. Actually, I know I’ve been rather sporadic lately, and will try to remedy that. Still, digital painting in Photoshop is a fascinating process, even though the […]