Surf Dog's Blog the Art of Shawn Boyles

It's taken me too long to get to these.  Here's another tiger.  I've got plenty more rough sketches to clean up and I should b...

Here's page 2 in my sons new monster ABC book.  B was a tough one, there were quite a few options to choose from, Blob(obviously) Bigf...

We just had a new baby boy born into our family a little over two weeks ago.  It's so fun having a new baby around.  I decided I wante...

Here's another tiger sketch.  I tried to push the pose on this one and really stretch the forms.  I need to work on posing my drawings...

Here's another of those big cats I've been drawing.  I have a feeling there are plenty more tigers to come.  I'm having too mu...

Started a new sketchbook recently.  I often do theme sketch books.  I've had an alligator sketchbook, an elephant, zombies, sharks, mo...

Here is a sketch from a few weeks back.  More is on the way. Enjoy.

Went and guest lectured at a character design class last night.  As part of it I gave them an assignment to draw a lucha libre wrestler.  ...

I'm going to teach a character design class this thursday and wanted to have a small assignment to give during it.  I decided on h...

Last week a friend of mine, Joe Pearman, asked me "what should I draw?"  I told him (and don't ask where it came from, cause...

Just a fun little sketch I put some quick color to.  enjoy.

Do you think it's funny that I call these ones Daily Sketch and I've done 3 of them in like a month?  Doesn't seem very "...

I drew up this sketch about a month ago and thought he could use some color.  I had just taken my kids to see The Croods at the theatre an...

This was my second attempt at the Cup O Doodle sketch.  I originally was going to draw a snake and my wife looked at the lines given to ...

This week a friend of mine encouraged me to try out Cup O Doodle.  It's a blog where they post up sketches of random lines or stains...

Came across this piece recently.  I was doing concept art for a Play Station video game (Akimi Village, you should check it out).  And I w...

Don't know what brought this on, but I thought today I'd draw a boxer (Boxer-get it?).  My wife loves these type of dogs and I thi...

I've been messing around with a few new brushes in photoshop lately and I'm really enjoying the results.  This was just me playing...

Here's a sketch I did awhile ago with some quick color thrown on it.  I really rather liked the concept.  I was tempted to put this gu...

Had a bit of time recently to have some fun and do some art.  This is what came out.  I've had a lot of fun playing around with colore...