January 10, 2018
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Childhood Friends and a Cryptic Motto
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, heads, Portraits, sketches
January 3, 2018
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Magical Neon
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, pen and ink, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
This is a page I drew this summer with the help of magical neon gel pens I collected at the depanneur over the weeks, at a dollar a pop.
I still haven’t figured out how to incorporate them into serious drawings (if that’s what I do), or know if they are archival quality.
January 2, 2018
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Nora Again
By Jack Ruttan in cats, Gouache, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour
A little gouache painting of Nora. Being quiet for a change.
January 2, 2018
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2018
By Jack Ruttan in digital, sketches
A doodle I made answering @inkyelbows challenge [link here] You can see other responses via the hashtag #2018doodle . Thought I should have it here in my blog. Don’t know why I thought of Star Wars. Guess it’s the recent movie, which I haven’t seen.
December 30, 2017
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Further Faces!
By Jack Ruttan in color, Gouache, heads, paintings
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.