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  • Wasps

    Ink on paper. This was an illustration for the Inferno. The souls that were neutral in life don’t even get to go to hell. They have to wait in the anteroom to hell where they are tormented by wasps and maggots.

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  • Cyclops Skull

    Ink, goauche on paper. A cyclops skull of course. You may be saying that it looks like an elephant skull all dressed up as a cyclops skull because, really, real cyclops skulls are hard to come by. But what you don’t know is ol’ Polyphemus’ skull has been in my…

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  • Crawdad Claw

    Ink on paper. This is a claw, or cheliped for those of you in the know, of a crawdad (or crawfish, or even – gasp – crayfish). Crawdads happen to be some of my favorite animals on earth. I used to spend hours hunting them when I was a kid.…

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  • The Books

    Here are the covers of my three new books that you can buy over at http://www.blurb.com/user/bustard

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  • Line Work Thursday

    These are all ink on illustration board. They are, from the top: The mighty Hektor, mortal foe of (the mightier) Achilles, a muskrat skull, and an alligator skull.

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  • BUY SOME BOOKS! Part Deux

    Here are some more teasers. I have gobs and gobs of pictures in these books, so don’t worry that you may see all the images here for free and that if you buy the books they will be full of reruns!

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  • BUY SOME BOOKS!

    Ok. So you’ve fallen in love with my drawing books – I know you have because you’ve all told me you have. (Unless, of course, you’ve ever met me; in which case you’re thinking I’m an egomaniac. Fair enough, but I still think you’d like the books if you ever…

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  • The Rusty Knight

    Ink and Photoshop. I suppose if you want to get picky, this is just a regular knight in rusty armor – the knight himself has no rust as he is made of flesh and blood. Now that we have established that, it’s an illustration for George MacDonald’s “Phantastes”.

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  • Polycarp

    Polycarp. Pencil, watercolor, gold leaf, ink on paper. Polycarp was an early Christian martyr. He famously defied the Romans in their pleas to him to renounce Christ. As a result he was burned alive.

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  • The Fight!

    A Fight between a Human and a non-human Hominid. Photoshop and Illustrator. This is an illustration for The Lost World by Conan-Doyle (like the sharks below). I spent WAY more time on it than I should have! It’s easy to get sucked into invisible details when you can blow the…

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