HeyJaredBruce’s Substack
I am a freelance illustrator and will use this page to talk about the ins and outs about what I'm doing, thinking and hopefully a little more than what you'll find in my other social media posts.
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Ye Olde Quill Pen Bison Sketch (opens the original)
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Back when I did the goose sketch using a feather that had fallen from a goose (I didn’t just take it from the goose), a follower asked if I would do more. Yeah, I just didn’t know when, but thought that maybe an octopus spewing some ink would be appropriate. I might still do that, but decided to go with this sketch of a bison that I did on a trip to The Wilds in Ohio last week. I liked the simplicity of the sketch, thinking that I had somehow miraculously channeled some Picasso vibes or some shi
Hellespont Rising (opens the original)
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Some of you may have seen most of these pics on my other socials, but I thought to do a somewhat short process post for the encaustic piece that I started a couple of weeks ago in a workshop and just now finished a couple of days ago. So, let’s start with the original concept, in which I did some years ago.<div cl
Sketchbooks, Part Two (opens the original)
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As I said in the previous Sketchbooks post, I tend to get a lot of stickers. And as the years go on, my collection increases. So, I put them on my sketchbooks, in which they kind of take on characteristics all their own. Let’s continue with the larger sketchbooks…Front<sourc
Emerging (opens the original)
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So, I have this sculpture in a show at the Hannan Center in Detroit that will be there until mid September. I did the sculpture some time ago, but don’t tell them that, as that is sometimes frowned upon for gallery shows. The piece fit the theme of Emerge! quite well in both theme and title, so how could I not try? Actually, I don’t think that they were that strict, as no mention of it were in the guidelines. Here is the piece as it appears in the show:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img
Sketchbooks (opens the original)
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So, I thought that I would do something a little different this time around. You see, I have all these stickers that I get from various places, including from my fellow creatives. Where does an old man put all these cool stickers? Well, on his sketchbook. Duh. So, in a way, they become these little piece of art all in and of themselves, and a slice in time, so to speak. I think that they each take on a characteristic of their own. So, here’s some of those stickered up sketchbooks. I’ll start wit
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