This post is a tough one, but at least I get to post Lucy: I don’t really like these gimmicks, but the person who did it to me has been extra cool, lately, so I couldn’t disappoint. Internet Tag – as follows: One: Link to the person who tagged you. Here. Two: Post the rules. […]
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
January 11, 2009
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Seduction
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesWant to get more into a Pre-Raphaelite, symbolist vibe, sometime.
Tags: black and white, sketches
January 11, 2009
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Car Group
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourThese are just some people who existed in pencil in the sketchbook. I corrected them a little, and then added watercolours. The paper is thin, so it crinkled, but there you go. The little cat is angry when I’m painting, and not paying attention to her, so unfortunately she has to be shut out while […]
Tags: colour, sketches, watercolour
January 10, 2009
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Oops … Just One More
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesJust found this one in my sketchbook, from the same Friday session as the last two posts. Central figure is drawn by Marr. The other characters by me; inks by all three of us, basically.
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches
January 10, 2009
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Friday’s Collaborations Continued
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesThese are lots of fun. They’re snaps from Marr’s sketchbook, from the same Friday night drawing session as the previous post. Above, Rick Gagnon and I inked Marr’s collection of puppet creatures. I’d love to see this in colour. Below, a man drawn by Marr and inked by Rick, in a pose not found in […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches
January 10, 2009
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Another Collaborative Friday
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourWatercolour of a Howard Cosell-kind of guy by me, with blacks by Rick. Well, this is the first of my Friday evenings with friends at the bar drawing a lot of stuff to be recorded on this blog. To follow the history of how “Gagnon Fridays” turned out (the name less accurate now that Marr […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches, watercolour
January 9, 2009
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Victorian Couple
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesOh, to be back in the old days, when men were men and women were modest, and you could be carried off at a moment’s notice by scarlet fever, or any number of ghastly diseases.
Tags: black and white, sketches, wash
January 8, 2009
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Try and Try Again
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourI’m not too happy with this pic, and I’m not going to tell you who I was trying to draw, because it doesn’t look like him. So, it becomes Generic Man with Helicopter. The ‘copter was inspired by some previous drawings you can find on the old blog site. But doing it has taken me […]
Tags: colour, sketches, watercolour
January 7, 2009
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More Horses
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, sketches, watercolourA carriage, this time. I think it was done on the same day as yesterday’s.
Tags: colour, montreal, sketches, watercolour
January 6, 2009
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Circus Horses
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, sketches, watercolourNot much time for sketching today. So, I threw on something pretty from an old book I don’t think has been posted here before. It’s exercises outside of the circus tent, one summer in the Old Port in Montreal.
Tags: colour, montreal, sketches, watercolour
January 5, 2009
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Welcome to the New Place
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketchesWow. That was heavy, because I’ve been doing the blog for four years, and what do I get when I think everything is set up right? The domain name is attached to a spam blog. I wrote a letter to my domain seller’s support, and immediately after, either by design or coincidence, the wordpress blog […]
Tags: black and white, cats, pencil, sketches
January 2, 2009
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Symphonie Fantastique
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesListening to that, this morning, by Hector Berlioz. It has a nice musical guillotining scene. Below, I drew last night, while listening to a story on the radio about a man whose grandma was in the jungle with Che and Castro during the fight for the Cuban revolution. Still haven’t sorted out the blogs, so […]
Tags: black and white, sketches
January 2, 2009
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Battle of the Blogs
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesDurn. My normal blog is working again, though I’d like to explore and learn more about the mechanics behind this one. Still haven’t been able to migrate the four years worth of Utopia Moment posts over to here, even though it’s supposed to be possible. Maybe I’ll just put a note on the old one […]
Tags: black and white, sketches
January 2, 2009
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More New Year
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesTrying to draw these figures with traditional underdrawing, and starting with ‘lines of action’ and all the things drawing manuals tell you to do. The girl looks nice, while the guy looks like the usual type of person I draw. Put in the Carrie-like background to set them off. That’s a lot of little lines!
Tags: black and white, sketches