Photography of Ryan Ruffatti

WEEK 2 – REFLECTIONS

On DeviantArt I’ve started contributing to a group called #weeklies. Mainly the idea is that they suggest a topic each week and everyone draws something on the topic and sends it in. It’s a good way to keep drawing and try new things.  The theme for this sketch was “Reflections”.

I went the Simpson’s quote routeand attempted to illustrate the like of “I always knew I’ll kill you in a hall of mirrors” Most of this was done traditionally. I have a couple spots that were blank when I cropped it into my square and I drew them in with the pen on the wacom tablet.

One of the artists I enjoy watching on DA, Mike Mitchell,  has put this graphic out for people to show their support for Conan with. I thought I’d post it out here, cause I feel Conan is getting a raw deal.

You can find more of his art here.

Read Conan’s Statment on the show here.

On to the last weekend of Halloween make up at Josie O’Kain Costume Shop in Joliet, IL. I’m going to be splitting this up into 2 posts as we did a lot of stuff. I won’t be posting a lot of the make up that we did. Partially cause we had some repeat make up jobs from previous weekends. I love when people keep coming back, but I don’t want to show you all the same images over again. We did a lot of make up on kids on Halloween morning, that I’m not going to share either. They looked great, but I don’t feel right posting images of the kids. There were also about 4 or 5 make up jobs that I simply forgot to take a photo of.

I’ll start off with the stuff we did on Friday. First we had a Frankenstein monster using one of the kits from Rubies. It took some work trying to get all the elements to come together for this, and still have a edge from the thick forehead appliance, but otherwise I think it came along pretty well.

Next we had a cyclops. It’s a nice latex application from Don Post. Don Post makes some nice and very creative items, but sometimes there tend to be some slight issues with the design that I’ll mention more of next time. The cyclops was a bit think so it was a little harder to hide the edges with a normal skin tone, but did the best we could on it.He did change into a costume before leaving, but I will say I’m always partial to modern day clothes with demons and monsters. Who says a cyclops can’t be a Cubs fan.

Next we have a repeat customer from last year which give Ellwyn a chance to show off her great skill with the air brush. This year our fairy wanted more of an autumn look and colors to go with her costume. I started of her base, and Ellwyn went to town on the details. The stencils for the leaves were made by the clients significant other. One of the thinks we do miss out on sometimes is that we often don’t get to see people in their complete costume as she is pictured in a dress she wore just to have the make up done in.

I’ll go ahead and jump to Saturday where I got to work on a customer that generally has come in every year for a long time. Every time I get to do something different. This time we just kept it simple with some horns that were blended in with blood as they burst through his skull.

That’s all for today. I’ll have some more images from Halloween next time.

After a 3 year absence I am in the works to bring back a comic I was writing called Shift. Tentatively Rich will be returning with brand new art work. We plan to start continue working on the comic Mid-November. My goal will be relaunching the site with new pages Jan 1, 2010. I will point out this is the plan. Any number of things could happen between now and then, but in the mean time it’s a good opportunity to reread the comic.

It does occur to me that this may not be the best way to reach everyone who was reading the comic, so please feel free to share this post with others and spread to word. I’ll do my best to not disappoint.

On Halloween you got to see one of these images. I held a poll on my DeviantArt page to help decide what I should shoot for the Halloween image. Zombie won the poll hands down, but playboy bunny got a fair amount of votes as well. I thought it would be fun to combine the two.

So we have a before and after images. Enjoy.