Surf Dog's Blog the Art of Shawn Boyles

A friend of mine at work has been bugging me to post something on my blog.  He's right, I need to put something up here every now and ...

Another zombie.  enjoy.

Didn't finish this one as well as I would have liked, but I promised Joe I would post today, so here it is.  enjoy.

When I was a kid I had a favorite stuffed animal (still have him actually).  He was one of those sock monkeys and I named him mike.  I sti...

Just started drawing and this is what came out.  You never can tell.  enjoy.

He's a tough biker chihuahua.  And that's all there is to say.  enjoy.

So I was just drawing and playing with shapes and this is what came out.  I kind of like it.  enjoy.

I had such a good time with the first pirate that I just had to do another one.  I thought the peg arm bit was especially fun.  Enjoy.

As part of the art lessons that I teach we were drawing up pirates.  This is the one that I came up with.  I was pretty happy with him.  E...

Here's another page of aliens.  We ended up using pieces of some of them and then one of them completely as a finished design.  Truthful...

So the Alien DLC for Keflings required a few special keflings that would be a specific character.  I knew right from the begining that I wan...

For the recent level we released for Wolrd for Keflings I was able to design a bunch of aliens.  talk about a fun project.  I have pages ful...

Here's another promotional image I did for the latest game I worked on.  This one was a blast to do.  I've always loved those cheesy...

A game I worked on is coming out with an additional scenario that you can download and it's all about aliens.  The project was so fun to...

This was an excersise we did in school for a character design class.  First you would draw some random shape with nothing really in mind, ju...

I was teaching an art lesson yesterday and we were just having some fun painting.  This is what I came up with in the 45 minutes we had.  I ...

Needed to clear my head and do a fun little drawing.  This is the result.  Enjoy.

This started out simply as an excersise in an art class that I teach to have fun with acryllic paint.  In the end I had some fun with it and...