Surf Dog's Blog the Art of Shawn Boyles

Since I had previously drawn up a space man toy ala Buzz Lightyear I thought I would take a stab at a Woody Doll as well. This is what I ca...

I was playing with my nephew's Buzz Lightyear doll a couple weeks back (and enjoying myself immensely) and decided to try my hand at des...

A few hours ago it came to my attention that Nico Marlet had a sketchbook for sale. Who's Nico Marlet you ask? Shame on you! Nico Mar...

I don't see how it's possible for anyone to see "How to Train Your Dragon" and not go home and draw dragons for a month st...

I don't have much in the way of polished art to show off so I thought I would just throw out some sketches for ya'll. Don't kno...

This was another character along with all the latest posts. His name is Mr. Ben and he was really funny. We needed kind of an Obi Won Kenob...

This was another character created for the same game. Not so much a character as an obstacle really, but still he was darn fun to draw and ...

This a another character with the rest of this batch. His name was Rock. I loved this character. We came up with quite a backstory for hi...

Here's another character for ya'll. This one is actually based on my wife's cousin. She's pretty cool and looks almost exa...

Another character. Just a fun skater guy. I really like the tire tread tattoos of his. enjoy.

Here's another character that never made it. I'm bummed these didn't get in. Still I'm glad I'm able to show them now....

This is a character I designed for a video game that was never released. I thought this guy was still fun enough to find an audience so her...

So here's a drawing I did. I wanted to do several things with this drawing. I wanted to draw in a different medium, something I was un...

Here's the last piece to accompany the geisha and the kung fu master. I'll post up the entire page later today, but for now here...

Here's this week's drawing. I'm trying to do a couple of them based on a similar theme. I'm currently working on a samurai...

I'm a little late with this one, but I'm pretty happy with the results. What's more my wife is happy with this one. She's ...

Here's another colored pencil piece. It was weird working on black paper. I'm used to inking things up and then coloring it. Stil...

Here's the second piece of art of the year. I'm trying to do one a week. so far so good. enjoy.

Happy new year everyone! One of my new year's resolutions this year is to do a bit more art work. I'm going to try and do quite a ...

Wow 200 posts. I remember starting this blog. It doesn't seem like all that long ago. Thanks everyone for coming back here and lookin...