Surf Dog's Blog the Art of Shawn Boyles

Just a quick sketch from my sketchbook. I really liked this one. I never did get around to finishing up the tattoos. I put them on the fa...

During the course of production on Band of Bugs I drew a lot of specific bugs but I also drew a ton of random beetles. Whenever I just want...

This is the finished sketch for a piece of art that I am doing. Just something fun for me to do and a piece I've been meaning to do for...

This was one of the other bad guys in the Band of Bugs game. He was supposed to be our "dragon" character. I drew up some design...

My wife and I like to watch a lot of food network- especially the challenges, and we have recently decided to step up our celebrations by go...

Just a sketch from my sketchbook. I like it. I don't know why he's blowing bubbles, but he is. I'll bet it's hard to blow...

This was probably the first charcter that we nailed down for the game. There were alot of drawings of this particular guy. We knew we wante...

There were two different praying mantis characters in the game. One was just a general soldier, the other was a specific character in the g...

One of the really cool things about the Band of Bugs project was the fact that we could put a Ninja Bee in the game (NinjaBee is the company...

Heres another character from the Band of Bugs video game. This was one that I was particularly pleased with. Things just seemed to work we...

This is a small piece I've been working on recently. At work I've been doing alot of work with colored pencils on paper and I'v...

Well since my last post I gave you the Hero of the game I figured this time around I would show you the villain. I'm not sure where som...

This is something I've been meaning to do for awhile now. Last year my company had a game come out called Band of Bugs on the Xbox 360 ...

Sorry I was away for awhile (to all 5 of you who visit here). There were the holidays and then I moved and am now trying to get my act toge...

I'm in love. At work we just got a cintiq moniter. For those of you who don't know what that is (and I think that's most of yo...

Here's a painting that I recently finished. It's just a small 5x7 that I painted for my kids new bathroom. It's going to have ...

This was something that was in the news the other day. Apparently they have discovered a dinosaur that was mummified. The mummy was later...

Here's a sketch from the ol sketchbook. Had a lot of fun with this one. It's kind of a medusa thing but intead of snake heads for ...

Just a funny little drawing in my sketchbook. I've always really loved bubble hats and rocket jetpacks. I still wish scientists would ...

Here's another Gator for ya'll. This one was heavily inspired by one of my favorite artists, Nico Marlet. And by heavily inspired ...