I’m getting back into the thing of posting what I drew lately, as long as it’s not too dreadful. It’s been hard for me lately, because I’ve been trying new things, and am not totally comfortable with them. Or even convinced that I should be trying them and not doing things more useful. But life […]
Archive for the ‘pen and ink’ Category
September 14, 2012
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More Heads, and Trees
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, color, dogs, heads, men, pen and ink, ruttan's place, sketches, women
May 23, 2012
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More Faces
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, cats, men, pen and ink, sketches, womenMore faces, like it said up top, but this time I’m inking them with the brush pen, so they’re not as scratchy. Not sure which I prefer. Above are Liv Tyler from The Lord of the Rings, two faces from the DVD cover for “Sky Captain,” and the sinister Conrad Black, recently released from prison […]
May 16, 2012
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People and Feet
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, montreal, pen and ink, sketches, womenDrawing this morning on the balcony, before the rains came. People walking by, mainly moms and dads back from delivering kids to the nearby day care. Bonus: a sensitive portrait of my foot.
May 15, 2012
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Back of the Book
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, machines, pen and ink, pencil, sketchesThe coarse cardboard at the back of the sketchbook is nice for drawing with certain types of tools. Here I used colour pencils, and also colour ballpoint pens. Then, a more normal drawing (in execution at least) from the middle of the book, based on one of Big Daddy Roth’s dragster-driving monsters. I used to […]
May 4, 2012
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Sketch-pourri
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, men, pen and ink, pencil, sketches, womenDarn. That implies “rotten” in French. I was trying to evoke “pot-pourri” as in variety, a kind of goulash of drawings. Anyhow, above is a haughty dame perfectly dressed in a retro outfit. I was happy to see her the other day. The view from the balcony is getting interesting again. Well, not today, because […]
Tags: ballpoint pen, pencil, sketches
April 25, 2012
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DC Books Launch at Blue Metropolis
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, montreal, pen and ink, sketches, womenWent to a launch, which was really a reading, of books by some friends of mine. I like to sketch during these things, but this time I found that drawing the people sitting around listening was more interesting than drawing the readers. Once, long ago, I had decided to draw every author whose reading I […]
April 25, 2012
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Small Cat and Food Dish
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, pen and ink, sketches
April 20, 2012
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Street Painting, Sketches, Portraits
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, digital, dinosaurs, men, pen and ink, sketches, watercolour, womenA little of everything here. A watercolour painting up above. Coloured pic of Jean Paul Belmondo from the movie Stavisky below. Sketches, one perhaps not so wisely coloured. I’m interested in what dinosaurs looked like, because I have the lumbering old-style beasts still stuck in my head. This Tyrannosaurus has a few feathers, which surprises […]
Tags: digital, dinosaurs, sketches, watercolour
April 4, 2012
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Cat Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, color, pen and ink, pencil, sketchesI’m afraid I’m going for the simple SEO on the title here. If you’re not aware, that means “Search Engine Optimisation,” and is where people put words in that they think will be used in Google-type searches, to win more views for their article. Still, cats are pretty popular on the internet (as if you […]
March 14, 2012
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Sketch Blogging Again
By Jack Ruttan in digital, paintings, pen and inkThings I’ve doing, and neglecting to put up. Pen and ink while watching a biography of the late Jean Giraud (Moebius). (Now taken down, sorry!) Admire his work greatly, but the whole “genius” tone of the doc was hard to deal with. Still, these people are giants in their field, and it’s not as easy […]
March 1, 2012
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Old Lady and Her Cat
By Jack Ruttan in pen and ink, womenI was going through an avalanche of old stuff today, trying to get organised. Found a lot of old things I at least don’t remember well, so I’m posting them. Well, this pen and ink of an old lady and cat (pretty big in the original, something like 14″x17″. Look cool. I don’t remember putting […]