I 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 […]
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
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 […]
December 10, 2012
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Digital Doodling
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, paintings, sketchesI’ve been doing a lot of work with my digital art, in Photoshop, with a stylus. Not as much control over the lines and strokes yet, as with more traditional media. But it’s coming along. Still, I’m shy of putting them up, because not many of them are “ready for Prime time,” at least in […]
December 5, 2012
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Cross-Hatchery
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, color, digital, pen and ink, pencil, womenThese are almost automatic drawings I do, while watching movies on the DVD machine, or petting cats. Cross-hatching is fun for me, but there’s almost no end to it. You simply have to stop, rather than declare something finished. The bonus this time is a little coloured cat picture:
December 5, 2012
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Watercolour Women
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, heads, paintings, pencil, watercolour, womenBeen painting sometimes strange watercolour portraits of women. Going for pretty more than scary, but they’re all interesting, at least. Plus, a bonus pencil drawing of a little boy, from the front cover of VOIR newsweekly:
November 27, 2012
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Steve Luxton at the Atwater Library
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, montreal, pen and ink, ruttan's place, sketches, women, writingYears ago, I had the notion that I would make a drawing of every author or poet I heard read, and make some sort of collection. That pledge went by the boards years ago, but I still enjoy drawing people at readings. Not even necessarily the reader. Also the people listening, if I can sit […]