Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
News Extra
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, montreal, sketchesThis was such a fun freelance gig. I did illustrations and writing for NEWS EXTRA, a newspaper tabloid sold at supermarkets and gas stations. It pretended to come out of Florida, but was actually published from an office in the Notre Dame de Grace neighbourhood of Montreal. Every other week or so I brought in […]
Transformations
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesOut of my files, this is a comic I did way back in 1988, when Robocop was a big deal, and the Transformers Cartoon was airing. I used this as a sample of my work, but don’t think I got it published anywhere, even in a Fanzine, which is kind of stupid. It’s still a […]
Tuscan Red
By Jack Ruttan in Portraits, sketchesA couple more sketchbook pages! Pencil used was my Prismacolour “Tuscan Red.” (I think of Star Wars more than Italy here!) Or it could be brown, come to think of it. I’ve sharpened it so much it’s now a numb in a pencil holder! Esi Edugyan has a cool lecture series at the moment on […]
Helen
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesDigital colour, which I find harder than the traditional deal….
Wattacullas
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesMore or less practicing here, pictures just out of my head. Nice heavy paper with texture. Fabriano 140lb. I need new paints, however. These are pretty tiny, BTW. 8 by 5 inches or so…..
More sketchbookery
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, Coloured Pencils, pencil, sketches, watercolor, womenPictures done from reference are more “realistic,” but not as much fun to draw as more cartoony things. I sort of adore the way ballpoint pens “blob.” Other artists wipe the point, I think, in between doing cross-hatching lines.
Yet Another Sketchbook Post
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI have lots of sketchbooks on the go at any one time. Here’s one that I started in May of this year. These are the first few pages. Sometimes I’m in a bit of a mood when I draw these. But they generally look fun, even if people rarely smile in these drawings. It IS […]
Okay, some more….
By Jack Ruttan in heads, horses, pencil, Portraits, sketchesI decided to scan a few more. This is sort of an old book, from the beginning of the pandemic. These are $4.00 “Dollarama” sketchbooks, which are great, because they are cheap, and the paper likes watercolour. Brush pen, though, sometimes wicks a bit. These things claim, however to be “acid free paper,” which is […]
Hello, Hello?
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI’ve been so terrible at putting things up here. Back in the heyday (around 2012 or so and before,) I was posting every day. Don’t know who was looking. I should try to put up more, dammit!
Feeling Neglected
By Jack Ruttan in Coloured Pencils, pencil, sketchesMy blog and I have been through some times. But since the advent of Facebook and Instagram and all of those corporate web things, the blog has been sort of neglected as of late. I used to post here daily, putting up whatever I had drawn that day, good bad, or indifferent. I still draw […]
Watercolour Boy
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourI saved my blog today. It’s a little bit dated, and I’ve got to go through and prune the links on the left hand side. But I’m still carrying on!
New Profile Pic
By Jack Ruttan in digital, self-promotion, sketchesI like drawing green monster boys. Did this one as quickly as I could, on the digital.