She on the other hand, is wholly digital. Next time, maybe: scenery!
October 6, 2016
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Grumpy Writer
By Jack Ruttan in digital, men, pencil, Portraits, sketches
And a lazy digital treatment. I’m learning more tricks, but am finding I get my best results when starting with a pencil drawing and scanning it in. I can draw with the stylus, but it takes a lot more time. The thing really doesn’t like obeying what your hand wants it to do. Maybe if I’d been born into a world of drawing on computers, instead of pencils and paper….
September 26, 2016
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In the sketchbook.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
My sketchbook is a bit like my written journal. I sit down with it, with no idea of what I’m about to write (or draw). Kind of therapy, I suppose, or like practicing scales if you were playing the piano.
The bottom corner is a gentleman I saw walking by on the street. Above was inspired by the sad story of Annie Pootoogook, an Inuk artist who died last week.
September 9, 2016
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Digital Watercolour
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
This is me, trying out Kyle Webster’s digital watercolour brushes.
September 8, 2016
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Space Flyer
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketches, women
Since the drawings I did for “Rank the Prank” are part of the broadcast, and give away surprises in the show, I’m beavering away at creating similar things which show off how I’ve advanced with the digital painting thing.
This is always hard because I’m never certain about my work. Also, it’s been a bit of a challenge getting back into this, because digital is such a welter of choices. The best thing is to scale back to a couple of tools and techniques that have worked before, and practice those to get them better.
August 15, 2016
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Off-Model George Jetson
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, sketches
Bernie Mireault and his Jetsonian efforts inspired me to make a doodle of George Jetson, unencumbered by reference to the real thing.
August 15, 2016
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Dig Pigs
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, comics, montreal, watercolor, watercolour
This morning I was annoyed at all the construction noise outside, so drawing this felt like a good way to get rid of my frustrations.
The title “Dig Pigs” is from graffiti I saw on one of this city’s ubiquitous “ROAD CLOSED” signs. It made me laugh.
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.