Surf Dog's Blog the Art of Shawn Boyles

There was a topic last week to draw a firedrake(dragon).  Seemed like a perfect opportunity to draw like Nico Marlet.  That man is a geniu...

I just love drawing monsters.  Is there anything funner to draw?  When the topic for sketch dailies was a mummy i was so excited because I...

I started this Mario for sketch dailies thinking it would be a real quick sketch but I started coloring it and just couldn't stop.  I ...

This might be my favorite sketch daily that I've done yet.  Everything about this one turned out well.  Isn't she beautiful!  Chee...

When the topic was sleeping beauty for sketch dailies this was the pose that came to mind.  She always looks so serene in the movie, but n...

This is my take on Peter Parker.  Whenever my spider sense is tingling this is what I look like.  Cheers!

The sketch daily topic was Goliath but I needed to throw David in there as well for some size comparison.  I want to do a few more Goliath...

This was just a fun piece to do.  I love the patterns and colors.  Cheers!

This is the way I always imagined Goldilocks and the Three Bears ending.  There might be a little more to the story but that picture would ...

 I always loved Monster Piece Theatre as a kid.  Is there a monster cooler than Cookie Monster in a smoking jacket with a pipe.  I submi...

 Sketch Dailies topic was Captain Planet.  I was never a big fan of him but I remembered he had a mullet.  This is kind of where I imagined...

I'm loving these sketch Daily challenges.  Here's a few, Crazy horse, Leprechaun, and troll.  Cheers.

Here's some recent doodles for Sketch Dailies.  The challenges were monkey king and heffalump.  I'm having a ton of fun with it....

Another Sketch Daily sketch.  The topic was Robot monster and when I looked it up this fantastic monster form a 50's b movie came up a...

Started tweeting with sketch dailies.  I'm having a good time with it.  This one is Ursula (hopefully that's obvious.  Can't w...

I have been playing around for a while with some Mexican Day of the Dead guys, coming up with a story line and flushing out characters- go...

I actually did this one a few months ago for the ABC book- it is being reviewed by publishers right now and while that is happening I am ...

Sorry for the quality of the image, I took a photo of this awesome giraffe I did for my sister a couple of years ago!  It is hard to tell...