Posts Tagged ‘pencil’
Sunday’s Drawings: With a Brush and All
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesThe first one worked out pretty well. Kind of Frank Miller-ish, except it’s a non Frank Miller subject. Will work on making blog posts more exciting. But at least they’re quick to do! New Wave kid. The above and top are more or less inspired by the film Control, about the lead singer of Joy […]
Tags: black and white, pencil, sketches
More Men, and on taking criticism.
By Jack Ruttan in dogs, sketchesKind of like what a complete page in my sketchbook sometimes looks like, rather than a nice drawing excerpted and isolated to show you. Again, the usual paints on a thin, sketchbook paper. I’m a little bit torn up this morning, because a pro illustrator (more successful than I, at least) looked over my website […]
Pencil Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesOffered in the spirit of “here’s what I was drawing yesterday,” rather than “these are the greatest drawings of the century.” Pencil’s messy, but you can correct. Above are some faces from a book of old pictures and Elizabethan miniatures. I’m finding I’m happier and draw better faces if I try to consider the face […]
Tags: black and white, pencil, sketches
Guitar Heroine
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourAnd some mono-chromatic characters:
Tags: black and white, colour, pencil, sketches, wash, watercolour
Tuesdays
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourMainly making little drawings, in this small book I found. Because they take less time. Really, I wanted to practice placing values, and, of course, making a nice picture. If I do something I really like, I can make it into a big picture, and I hope, get the values right so you can tell […]
Tags: black and white, colour, pencil, sketches, watercolour
Bert
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesBack to random sketches in my book, and cryptic words, which are merely notes I write to myself for some totally unrelated project. Looks fairly crazy, though, doesn’t it? Some other time I’ll write something rambling, but I have to walk up a hill in freezing weather and wind (but it is sunny out), to […]
Tags: black and white, colour, pencil, sketches
More Friday Fun and Frolic
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesAbove is the brilliant job Rick Gagnon did colouring Marr’s (Michael Arsenault’s) drawing from last week during our usual Friday night meeting at the Cock N’ Bull bar. But this wasn’t quite so usual, because instead of “Gagnon Friday,” this one could be called Gagnon, Marr, Simmons, Leblanc (and Ruttan) Friday. Below, Marr and Gagnon […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, colour, Gagnon Fridays, Jeff Leblanc, Marr, pencil, Richard Gagnon, sketches, wash
I’ve been memed, and lived to tell the tale.
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesThis 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. […]
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