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Pencil and watercolor on paper. This is an illustration for Animal Farm. I was thinking Ralph Steadman when I made it. I guess I stayed in the lines a bit much for Steadman, but still…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 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.
