Michael
@buccifolio.bsky.social
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Artist specializing in mythology/folklore he/him
https://linktr.ee/buccifolio
Celebrating the autumnal equinox with a throwback of my illustration of Persephone and Hades in their role as harvest gods.
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Sing, O Muse!
about 2 months ago
Join us⦠Sing, O Muse! Chthonic Visions will be available on the 1st of October. ⦠More updates to come
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Apollo, the bright-voiced lord of song.
about 2 months ago
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Eileithiya the Greek goddess of childbirth. Not much is given to her description or symbolic associations in ancient writing and art, so I leaned into the practice of midwifery to make her design feel more meaningful.
2 months ago
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The Marvel Swimsuit Special is back today after decades! I was super into comics as a kid & for some reason I loved seeing my favorite comic characters lounging in swimsuit versions of their costumes. Here's a piece I did last year of Cyclops & Wolverine that definitely captures that spirit.
3 months ago
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I've got some gay art for Pride coming up soon, but in the meantime, here are some h*rny minotaur drawings.
3 months ago
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Khonsu is an Ancient Egyptian god of the moon. In the Cannibal Hymn, Khonsu disembowels other gods and provides their end-trails to the deceased pharaoh so that he may gain their immortality. He is often depicted as either falcon-headed or a mummified child so I decided to split the difference.
3 months ago
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Art vs Artist 2025
#artvsartist
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3 months ago
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It's
#tolkientuesday
and I come to you with a scene of Elrond and Gandalf examining Glamdring at Rivendell from "The Hobbit"
3 months ago
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A throwback piece. Apollo and Ra have disparate opinions on mortal trends. The internet can be a beautiful place. This was a tweet that was posted and reacted to on tumblr, and then I illustrated it and posted it here.
4 months ago
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Happy Pride! š If you see this, QRP with your queer art. Baby, I've got queer art for every time period (or at the very least, three)
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4 months ago
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I love it when the X-Men are Beach
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4 months ago
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Artemis as undersea huntress. I found an article that spoke of an Arcadian shrine to a fish-tailed Artemis. This claim seemed dubious, but the image of Artemis as an underwater huntress took hold! She wears a fish scale alopekis and has seals as her companions as they are the dogs of the sea.
4 months ago
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Annatar, the fair form taken by Sauron at the time he forged the One Ring. His design draws on a mixture of Minoan and Tudor inspiration.
4 months ago
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Jumping on the bandwagon with this one (I highlighted the characters I was familiar with). I asked my aunt who watches OMITB if I was like Mabel and she said "She's an artist and kind of cranky" so that checks out...
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
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4 months ago
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Elluindir TinderƔmar of Lindon, a Sky-Watcher of the House of the Sea-birds I recently got Free League Publishing's handbook for The Lord of the Rings TTRPG & wow did they do an amazing job adapting Tolkien's work. It inspired me to rework my existing elven character to fit their player types.
5 months ago
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Happy Star Wars Day! I feel like I'm honor bound to remind everyone that I once did some Ancient Mythological takes on beloved Star Wars characters. May The Fourth Be With You!
5 months ago
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Sisters of the sea. A siren plays a jaunty tune for a harpy and a nereid. The ancient Greek ideas of sirens and harpies often get overshadowed, so I wanted to make an illustration distinguishing them from one another.
5 months ago
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How utterly disappointing it is indeed to see an academic work use an AI image on its cover.
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5 months ago
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The Peter Jackson LotR movies was my gateway into Tolkien, and they are still very close to my heart, but very little brings me more joy than making and seeing non-Jackson inspired Tolkien art, especially if there's an ancient world flair to it.
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All three of my Greek Mythology inspired DnD characters: A cleric of Aphrodite, a Warlock with Hekate Brimo as his patron, and a Circle of the Sea Half-Nereid Druid.
6 months ago
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The last (for now?!) of my Greek Mythology inspired DnD Character designs. This is a Circle of the Sea Druid. He is Half-Fey, with his mother being a Nereid and his father a human. He's got some Minoan style vibes and a giant seahorse familiar. Who could ask for more?
6 months ago
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Happy Equinox! Spring has finally sprung and Persephone has reunited with her mother to herald a new season of growth.
6 months ago
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I've been watching
@dimension20.bsky.social
Neverafter, which reimagines popular fairy tales in a horror setting. I made a shortlist of characters I could interpret, but ultimately I went for Hansel, a boy with a haunted past, penchant for magic, and an uncharacteristic aversion to sweets.
6 months ago
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Say what you want, but I've been seeing zero beauty with the Christopher Nolan's Odyssey adaptation set pictures.... What happened to the glamour? It also occurred to me that there's a bunch of people probably don't know what the costumes should look like, so I did some quick studies.
6 months ago
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Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus if they slayed.
7 months ago
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I started Dimension 20: A Court of Fey & Flowers as something to watch while finishing up an illustration, and instead of doing that I came up with my own court and hierarchy of Fey domains.
7 months ago
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In honor of
#PokemonDay
I took a break from a druid I was drawing to do a half-orc circle of spores druid based on Ivysaur. I found out too late that the ghost pipe on his back while parasitic, isnāt a fungus & also doesnāt photo synthesize⦠so it wouldnāt be good for solar beam. Thatās showbiz!
7 months ago
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Continuing with my Ancient Greek DnD aesthetic we have a fiendish Warlock whose patron is Hekate Brimo, the vengeful and terrifying aspect of the goddess Hekate. He also has a snake familiar that yearns for destruction, but that's neither here nor there.
7 months ago
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My cleric of Aphrodite is packed with symbolic details that relate to the origins and worship of his patron goddess. I've detailed them all in in this graphic.
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7 months ago
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Iāve been slowly getting more and more into DnD and once I found out that you could make whatever kind of world you wanted, my brain, as it so often does, went immediately to Greek Mythology. This is my imagining of a human cleric of Aphrodite.
8 months ago
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Perseus
8 months ago
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Ive been gravitating towards Archaic fashion but I can't shake depicting Dionysus as beardless. To compensate I've developed a headcanon that he wears a mask around mortals because he's afraid of revealing his divine form & doesn't want to lose anyone in the same way he lost his mother.
8 months ago
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Michael-coded characters
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8 months ago
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Update to this piece. I have just been informed that it is Odysseus in the kylix striking that saucy little pose which is objectively 1,000 times more hilarious.
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8 months ago
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I saw this sassy little Hermes on a 5th century BCE kylix and had to draw him. The original piece, titled āThe Embassy to Achillesā by the Tarquinia painter, can be found in its entirety can be found in the collection of the Louvre, G264.
#greekmythology
8 months ago
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Persephone and Hades tending to the soil so that the following year's harvest will be bountiful maintaining the natural cycle of death and rebirth. Based off of similar imagery from Ancient Greek pottery.
9 months ago
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Solstice tidings to everyone from me and this handsome goat I drew a few years back!
9 months ago
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It's Krampusnacht, so here's a little throwback to a Krampus drawing I did a couple of years ago.
10 months ago
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I can't wait to get into
@drawfeeshow.com
's new season of Drawtectives. But until I'm able to watch it, here's some art I made of the crew.
10 months ago
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My Tuppi gets his own shelf next to a painting of Baba Yaga giving the middle finger. I'm don't know if I have quite as clear a thematic vibe, but I like the enemies-to-lovers tension their juxtaposition brings to the space.
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10 months ago
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Dropping subtle hints that I recently finished "Hera" by Jennifer Saint.
10 months ago
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A cleric of Aphrodite. A
#dnd
character set in a world inspired by the mythology of Ancient Greece. I'll be redrawing him in a bit, but here's his initial design along with some notes detailing the symbolism of his costume.
10 months ago
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I don't use my tarot cards often for myself, but Hekate's Night is as good an excuse as any to break out the deck and have a reading.
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10 months ago
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Show me your comics taste in 4 different comics.
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10 months ago
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One such important date on the calendar is tonight! Hekate's Night! Two of my most recent depictions of Hekate depict he various roles in Mythology. From the helper of Demeter in the Homeric Hymns to the terrifying apparition in the Argonautica.
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10 months ago
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A character design for Medusa, based partially on the running gorgon motif from 6th century BCE pottery and partially on half-orcs from DnD.
#greekmythology
10 months ago
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Sing, O Muse! is back back back again for a second volume, and this time it's spooOoOOOooOky. Give the account a follow and stay tuned for updates and artist reveals. If you loved our first volume, the second will knock your socks off!
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10 months ago
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An Olympian Family Tree. I wanted to make a color and style guide for myself that I could reference whenever I drew an Olympian, and in true me fashion... it got completely out of hand.
#classics
#greekmythology
11 months ago
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Thanks to
@greekmythcomix.bsky.social
for including me in her roster of talented myth artists! You'll definitely want to keep an eye on this starter pack as more names get added to it! There's lots of wonderful and talented artists to be found!
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11 months ago
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