Always drawing things.
December 26, 2017
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Cat Protection
By Jack Ruttan in cats, digitalA plausible cat outfit for the current weather. They seem not to need booties.
December 25, 2017
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Dog-shaped Thing
By Jack Ruttan in digital
I’ve seen some very strange dog-shaped synthetic-sheathed things walking around.
December 24, 2017
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Digital Sketchbook
By Jack Ruttan in digital
I wish I could set up a digital sketchbook, analogous to the paper sketchbooks I have so many of. I guess I can confine all my sketches to a file folder, which I can look at. Happy with how my digital things are looking, finally. I have the feeling I can draw anything I can do in traditional media.
December 22, 2017
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Edmund Bertram
By Jack Ruttan in digital, men
I stole the pattern for the background from my Dover Book of Ornament. Which was fun to do.
December 21, 2017
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Gamer
By Jack Ruttan in Gouache, men, paintings, sketches, watercolour
Red paint and pencil, for some reason. I’ve been watching too many videogame review videos. Trying to figure out what kids like these days.
December 16, 2017
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Unicef Child, Mouse, and Explosion
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolor
Watercolour, in my Dollarama sketchbook.
October 7, 2017
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Sketchbook People
By Jack Ruttan in heads, pencil, Portraits, sketches
People in the real world fly by, and it’s hard to catch them. So one uses imagination, and skills gained by practice to capture them.
Then there’s drawing from a photograph, which is basically analyzing shapes, and not that creative for me. Still, it produces a convincing result, and I learn something in the process.
But I’m lazy, and don’t like studying references. More fond of just drawing, even though it’s mainly for me.
September 18, 2017
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Digitally Blonde
By Jack Ruttan in digital
Despite difficulties with hardware, I’m very happy with how the digital work seems to be progressing. Colours are a hard thing to get around, mainly because the palette here is potentially infinite.
I’m also getting better at fixing things up, because the line of the stylus rarely goes where you want it to, so you have to draw with these broad gestures, even though the working area here is tiny.
Still, it’s fun seeing things look not totally horrible. Will try to put up a few more, if the machinery will let me.
August 28, 2017
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Digital Dame
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, women
Digital painting, on the bigger computer again. Trying to do what’s called “glazing,” using my “natural brushes.”
August 1, 2017
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By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, heads, horses, men, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
This is sort of a test, in that I’m trying to post something via photos I took with the iPad. Sadly, there are a few things I haven’t figured out, but this is good enough for the time being.
July 30, 2017
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Mount Royal Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, paintings, parks, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Yesterday, I went to a friend’s place just over Mount Royal, Not far from the Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery gates. And it was such a nice day I sketched this elaborate monument just inside the gates.
Got to the other side of the “mountain.” That’s the part I call the “front” because it faces what used to be my neighbourhood. Had a good view of the world-famous “Mordecai Richler Gazebo” or bandstand, which had recently been marked by graffiti (non-political, I think). Hence the danger tape and the traffic cones, only barely indicted in the sketch below.
Still, it was very pleasant to sketch things from life. I want to do it some more, and work on my watercolour chops.
