Ansel Bard

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comics, art, games and such https://linktr.ee/anselbard Scavenger Suite is in Indiepocalypse #78!! check it out here: https://pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-78

Small purple ground cover flowers, some kind of vinca maybe? Idk seems like something else but I don’t know what
Cassette tape with Scavenger Suite Original Game Soundtrack on it
Hand holding a card with a scene from Scavenger Suite on the front
Shallow river through woods
Poetry zines in progress of being folded and stapled, this one is called “God laughs in my face” and is open to the pages with “Nashville Poem” and “Interstate Poem #2”
Official poster (I did not make) for Sewanee In Print
A bunch of hand drawn dog characters on small cards
A list of achievements in Scavenger Suite: “i’ll fly away” (do some birdwatching), “and on that farm he had a…” (drive the tractor), “it is well” (forget the words)
Pixel art of human and dog in a green pine forest
Human and dog explore a flooded field with an old tractor sitting in it
Title screen with a dog and human traveler in a field with mountains in the background, the words "scavenger suite" in the clouds above
pixel art title screen for Scavenger Suite, featuring a dog and human traveler on a pink field with mountains and clouds on a purple background
A cloudy winter sunset with purple and orange clouds and tree silhouettes
A view of stone cliffs from across a gorge
An area that looked particularly like a rainforest, with a lot of moss (and what I think are rhododendrons, which were all over the place)
A scene made in Bitsy with a human and dog looking at a tractor in a flooded field
A bunch of stuff growing in the woods that is maybe snakeroot
Another view of the lakeside cliff with a few prickly pears enjoying the view from a boulder
A path through some trees
Thur. Oct. 2: Free screening of “No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics” with discussion to follow: Sarratt Cinema, 7:30 pm. Sat. Oct. 4: Nashville Comic Arts Festival: Vanderbilt Central Library, 11 am - 6 pm.
Sturdy copy of RUFUS #1 with an original page in the background
Low poly render of car on a road under an overpass at night
Low poly render of a car with gold paint and black stripe
Render of an apartment with kitchen, stairway and upstairs bedroom
Summer tanager (solid red bird) on stump
Image of Jack Black in Nacho Libre with the line “Precious Father, why have you given me this desire to wrestle and then made me such a stinky warrior?” Except I have replaced “wrestle” with “play solo ttrpgs”
Photo of small watercolor painting in progress, some yellow and blue pansies in a garden bed
top down map view of rural area with a river winding through
Top down map view of rural area
A comic panel of a troublemaking wolf perched on a fridge in the grocery store eating eggs out of the carton by the handful. “GET OUT OF THERE!” someone yells.
Several examples of more detailed/realistic character drawings with full color on a blank or simplified background
4 examples of pet portraits in ink
traveler and dog stand before an old barn in a field
a traveler and dog in a forest of tall trees
Pixel art of a small white dog in an orange field below orange mountains on a purple background. The title in the clouds above reads “scavenger suite”
Collage of black and white drawings: animals, humans, hobbits, etc
Hardcover comic book “We’re All In This Alone & Other Stories by Ansel Bard”
Zines: Escape the Zone, Hot Stuff on Shore Leave, The Dark, The Very Good Dogs of Chernobyl, and Contact
Photo of my desk and chair by the window on a warm winter day. There’s an open sketchbook on the desk.
Watercolor WIP of some houses on a street with power lines
A grid of 40 2x2" watercolor paintings of landscapes referenced from Google Earth street views
Pixel drawing of a car at a gas station pump in the desert at sunset
Comic panel of Fred the bulldog sweeping his grocery store, interrupted by a ringing phone
A photo of a field with the sun shining through fog. There are trees and a barbed wire fence with blackberry stems in the foreground.
YOU SHOULD MAKE A COMIC* (*ZINE) ABOUT THAT: a barely readable zine drawn by me. Have you ever had this conversation? Person A: What do you do for a living? Person B: I’m a screenwriter* (*comic artist, musician, author, etc) Person A: oh! I have this great idea for a movie*… (comic, concept album, book, etc) EVERYONE DOES THIS.
A cover page with “Lonely Wizard” in bubble letters above a cartoon wizard with brown skin and a white beard, wearing a gray robe and hat which is covered in moss and mushrooms. He is holding a staff and a green teapot.
A comic page in black and white featuring a wolf in a hoodie and short pants running away from the viewer down a road lined with streetlights and evergreens. His “AAWWOOOOOO” trails off into the night sky. An enormous moon rises in the background, with huge bubble letters proclaiming “RUFUS!” above it.
Photo of purple thistles with yellow and orange butterflies on a backdrop of trees
Black and white sketch of a cicada clinging to a twig
Four ink drawings of nature scenes in grayscale; mostly trees with some rocks
Photo of the path through the woods with light and shadows