updated website

Updated the Bill Buswell site the other day...

Dip pen (Leonardt 700 nib) with Windsor and Newton ink on Saunders Waterford 90lb HP paper. Digital colour.

the reduction shock

When an obscure illustrator has a serious allergic reaction, the world's most famous box-headed adventurer is reduced to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream to find the source of the attack. But problems arise as soon as La Boîte and his friends enter the body and they are soon beset by a particularly virulent strain of the common cold.

Cover design from The Reduction Shock, the latest installment in Buswell's Misadventures of La Boîte.

Dip pen (Leonardt 700 nib) with Windsor and Newton ink on Saunders Waterford 90lb HP paper. Digital colour.

the back of pete floate's head

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink  in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.

sunflower

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink and watercolours, in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.

mutant strawberry

Various fineliners and Winsor & Newton watercolours inA4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.

orchids

Two drawings of an orchid drawn before and after (bottom and top respectively) our holiday in Thailand. The second drawing was much more accomplished than the first and it's not difficult to understand why. Apart from the fact that I did a lot of sketching in the period between drawings, I also bought a new watercolour half-pan (violet, I think) which allowed me to capture the colour of the petals more accurately than I had before. The colours in that first sketch are HORRIBLE – dark, muddy and nothing like those on the flower itself.

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink and watercolours, in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.

souvenirs

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink and watercolours, in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.