Trying to draw portraits. I’m cozy in pencil (not so cozy drawing likenesses!). I wonder if it’s bastardization to try and colour a drawing this way, but I’m also practicing my digital chops. Not the prettiest image, technically, but it’s part of my artistic self-education, so I’m putting it up here. I wanted to draw […]
Archive for March, 2012
March 29, 2012
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Sherwin Tjia Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, ruttan's placeAs the artist promised, Sherwin Tjia has sent me this sketch of a cat. The postman folded it, of course, but I am flattening it out.
March 29, 2012
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Hey Look, It’s Me!
By Jack Ruttan in digital, ruttan's place, sketchesI wasn’t liking how in the other paintings the hair seemed to have little to do with the rest of the face, so here’s a try in the direction of dealing with that. One also has to pay attention to colours. I like the impressionistic thing, and the brush marks. Those are made with very […]
March 28, 2012
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An Improbable Prehistoric Scene
By Jack Ruttan in digital, dinosaurs, paintings, women
March 28, 2012
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Still Amblin’ Down the Digital Path….
By Jack Ruttan in digital, paintings, womenI think these are looking better. (and now I’ve updated it to balance the colours a little, according to some things I’ve learned. There are so many tools with Photoshop. Interesting but complex.)
March 26, 2012
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Car, Car C-A-R
By Jack Ruttan in digital, paintingsSomething I used to chant as a little one, for whatever reason. Painted this to go into the background of another picture, but spent so much time on it (learned a lot, however), that I decided to clip it out and blow it up. I seem to be having better luck with inorganic objects than […]
Tags: digital, machines, watercolour
March 23, 2012
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Paper or Pixels?
By Jack Ruttan in digital, men, paintings, watercolour, womenOne thing my recent adventures in digital painting have done, they’ve made my painting in watercolour seem absolutely easy and refreshing by comparision. Still it’s a great challenge, and I’ve learned plenty in the last little while. As I relax and practice, things will get easier, and the people more natural. I’m not a quick […]
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 8, 2012
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Samurai
By Jack Ruttan in digital, men, paintingsMore digital fun. Yay!
Tags: digital, paintings, watercolour
March 8, 2012
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Digital Watercolour
By Jack Ruttan in digital, paintings, watercolourBlotchy, I know, but I’m happy because it’s a sort of successful digital watercolour. Zoe Piel explains the method, and the dozens of switches and settings you have to control. I’m not so good at that, having merely a 20th-century mind. But I managed to upgrade my “Creative Suite” and am learning all the new […]
March 2, 2012
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Depressing Comics
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI was going through old stuff yesterday, looking for something I didn’t find (thought it was in the paper files, but I think rather it’s on the computer). Still, it helps to get to know your files. I still have trouble finding things I’m working on when it goes inside a drawer. Perhaps my drawers […]
Tags: black and white, Brush Pen, comics, Pen & Ink