August 10, 2016
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Colour Pictures
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
August 4, 2016
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Goths
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, heads, pen and ink, sketches
Some strange types, on a loose sheet of typing paper. Do they even call it “typing paper,” now? Copy paper, I guess. I still like drawing on it with pens.
July 27, 2016
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Further Sketchbookery.
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, pen and ink, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
I need to find a better title for these sorts of posts, because the headings are getting a little repetitive. Anyhow, I bought a new sketchbook, and here are some things I’ve been drawing in it, recently.
Faces, science-fictiony things like monsters and spaceships. I’ve been working on work a lot, and can’t show those drawings yet, so this is what you get for the time being.
It rained a bit, and I was impressed by this old lady with a bag on her head, peeping out of one of the handle holes.
July 13, 2016
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Two-Two-Two-Oh, rue Parthanais
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, montreal, pencil, sketches
Drat, forgot the little fruit juice bottle full of water, so this is pencil only. This is the artists’ co-op on Parthenais street. Someone trusted me enough to let me watch their bike as I sketched this. Glad they weren’t away for too long.
July 4, 2016
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Digital Watercolours
By Jack Ruttan in digital, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Kyle Webster has an excellent selection of digital brushes that work with Photoshop. Here’s an early effort. It’s a pretty good facsimile of something I could have knocked out in a couple of minutes (minus drying time) in “traditional media,” but it’s nice to have these tools.
June 28, 2016
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Mrs. Birtwhistle & Mr. Boggedy
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, pencil, sketches, women
Bonus blackwinging. Mrs. Birtwhistle and Mr. Boggedy.
June 28, 2016
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Blackwing-ing It.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, pencil, sketches
My friend bought a box of the famous Blackwing Pencils (read about them at this link.) They were deluxe pencils made for animators and artists in the 20th century, and the company went out of business. Now they’re being made again, for the same market that buys Moleskine Notebooks and other pricey stationery items.
I do like good art materials, but can’t always afford high-end items. But as with this beautiful rag paper I inherited, I believe in using things up, rather than putting them on a shelf somewhere.
Still, I’ve had lots of fun with the pencil my friend gave me, as you can see here. It is very pleasant to use. But I’m not sure if it’s worth paying almost $40 for a box of twelve.
UPDATE: My friend who so generously gave me the pencil notes that it’s really only about $30 for a box of 12. That’s around $2.50 per pencil, and not out of line for arty things such as that.
June 28, 2016
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Neil Smith Doodle
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, heads, men, sketches
For someone who draws as many faces as I do, I find it hard to hit a likeness. But I’m happy with this little face of author Neil Smith I doodled in the margin of the Esplanade Editions book catalog.
That glossy paper is very comfortable to draw on with the pentel brush pen. Hope I can do more like these. I’d like a whole collection of authors.
June 25, 2016
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Squirrel
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, sketches, watercolor
Squirrel in my friend’s tree.
June 22, 2016
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Digital Dalliance
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, heads, women
I hope I’m not wasting my time trying to paint digitally. My line, which I think looks nice enough in watercolour or little pen and ink drawings, to me doesn’t look so appealing in digital.
Still, this post gives me hope. It’s from a “famous” digital artist, discussing how her drawing has improved over the past 12 years. I’ve only been doing it for a little while.
June 19, 2016
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“FOOT”
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, pen and ink, sketches
This is a little sketch I drew for my friend, on a scrap of scratch paper. She thought I was trying to spell the word “FOOT” with the background handrails, and the bike wheels. But this is just a coincidence.
June 17, 2016
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Various Sketchbook Pages
By Jack Ruttan in color, heads, horses, men, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
Various items from the sketchbook. I’m trying to work out of my comfort zone. The last two are more like what I usually enjoy doing.
I love horses. Worked at a horse farm for one summer.
Trying here for more “frosty colours, rather than the warm tones I often use. I’ve got better ideas about this now.
June 15, 2016
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Tiny Pict-chas
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, color, dogs, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
More from the sketchbook. “Tiny pict-chas,” as my sis used to refer to them, when she wanted to get my goat.
I enjoy the line made when the black roller pen gets wet, and mixes a little with the colour.
June 9, 2016
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Auntie Griselda and Friends
By Jack Ruttan in heads, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Another sketchbook page.
That’s my Auntie Griselda in the upper left-hand corner. The rest of the people mainly come from magazines, such as “Exclaim,” and those glossy promotional ones you can pick up in cinemas.
I should colour all the drawings, but I guess I’m lazy.