Lion Lad

As promised yesterday here is Lion Lad, Hyena Man's sidekick. Whenever Hyena man saves someone they always think it was Lion Lad that did the saving, after all, he's a lion right. Hyenas are just scavengers, right? I think I need an innocent weasel who always gets blamed for the crimes now. What do you think? Enjoy.

Again

Well I spent a bit more time on this guy. I'm having fun with it so far. It's hard for me sometimes to break away from a loose sketch and try and make something a bit more finished and refined. So this is good practice. I'll keep going on this one for awhile and we'll see what happens. enjoy.

Hero Hyena

This was a fun idea I had a couple weeks ago. My wife is a die hard fan of animal planet and she was watching a show about hyenas. There was a guy speaking about how hyenas have a bad rap and everyone looks at lions as these noble creatures and hyenas as mangy scavengers. He was trying to get people to change their opinions on these animals. That's when I came up with the idea of a hero who is a hyena (and very good at it by the way) but whenever he saves anyone they always thank his dorky lion sidekick, because, well the hyena can't have been the one that saved me. it must have been the noble lion. So here is our hero. Tomorrow I'll post up the lion sidekick. Enjoy.

Let's try this again.

Ok. I've been out of it for awhile now. It's not that I haven't been drawing or any of that. It's just that I've been lazy and haven't been posting any of it. So with out further ado here's something new for ya'll. I really rather like this sketch so I think I'm going to tinker with the colors on it a bit more. I just felt like drawing one of those hindu gods with all the arms and such. They're so cool. I have another one of Ganesha that I'll put up soon as well. For now Enjoy.

Skeleton Sketch

This is a sketch I did yesterday. I just drew a scribble on my piece of paper and looked at it until something came to me. It turned into a skeleton. That happens alot. Go figure. Enjoy.

Meeting Sketch 2

Here's the drawing I did today during my meeting. Now this one took a bit longer than 15 minutes. I've been toying with it here and there. Still I think it's kind of fun. I'm trying to draw with a Ball point pen every now and then. It's a good excersice for me because you can't erase it. Just knowing that kind of makes me think out my drawings a bit more. Enjoy.

Meeting Sketch

Every morning at work we have a quick meeting to see what everyone is up to and check our progress. It only lasts about 10-15 minutes tops, so I usually bring my sketchbook and do a quisk little doodle. This was today's quick sketch. I'm into doing robots lately. I don't mind this little guy. He's not great, but he's not bad either. Enjoy.

Ninja Turtle

Just having some fun at work and this was the result. I doubt the series would have lasted very long if our turtles in the half shell looked like this and not the buff ninjas we all know and love. Still, it's fun. Enjoy.

Baboons

I decided I wanted to draw a baboon one day and I didn't stop until I found one I liked. Incidently there are alot of other baboons that I drew that you don't see here. These are just the ones that had enough promise to get a little more attention. I also wanted to keep going on inking things to get better at it. I still don't have the feel for working with a pen at all. I'll get there though. enjoy.

Space Ranger

This is just a random drawing that appeared in my sketchbook. I don't know why I never did anything else with this one. I still kind of like the sketch. I guess something must of come up. Oh well. Enjoy.

More toned paper stuff

Here's another piece done in my toned paper sketchbook. I decided to color this one with water color and then pull out the whites with a white pencil. I got a little carried away with the white and overdid it, but it was fun to do at the time anyway. enjoy.

Space Station Tycoon!

This is about the coolest thing in the whole world. Right now you can go over to IGN.com and see a preview of the game that I am currently working on. IGN is a big game site devoted to giving out the latest dirt on all the hot new games coming your way. On the front page you can scroll through the top stories of the day up at the top and our game is one of those stories. I have been excited about this project for awhile now and I'm happy to see that we've released some info about it. I'm not sure what all I can tell you about the game, but I will say that I was the lead artist on the game and I was able to design all the characters you see. I also got to design the ships and stations as well. The other cool thing is if you read the interview you'll notice that the main character is named Shawn. (Wait a minute, MY first name is Shawn! Coincidence, you be the judge) Anywho the interview is over at wii.ign.com/articles/768/768580p1.html. Please go over and check it out and let me know what you think. I'll see what art work from the game I can put up here soon. Enjoy.

Back Again, Again!

Wow! Sorry that I was away for so long. Life has just gotten busier and busier with no end in sight. I still have managed to do a little bit of artwork on my own and so I'll let you in on it a piece at a time. This is one I did for a cool sketchbook with toned paper. It's always nice to be able to pull out the whites on a picture as well as all the darks. It's a fun sketchbook that kind of forces me to go beyond what I normally do. Enjoy.

Back again

Sorry about the long hiatus. Nothing really that should have kept me from blogging but I was just lazy and things at work have been kind of hectic. Anyway, here's another pic fromt he book I did. This is the picture I did to accompany the little bio paragraph about me at the end. But you probably already knew that (those look uncannily like my feet after all). Enjoy.

New and Improved

Well, it took a long time, but I've updated the blog and finally got a banner up at the top. I can't figure out how to get rid of the text on my banner so if anyone knows how, please let me know. Not that I'll understand it, but I might be able to pass that info on to someone who can implement it for me. Hope you all like Surf Dog's new playgound. enjoy.

Vicunas

Here is another pic from my book. These are the three vicunas that our heroes meet. I had no idea what a vicuna was (turns out it looks alot like an alpaca (which I thought was a llama because of how similar they are)). Enjoy.

Ozzy!

Here's another character from the book I illustrated. His name is Ozzimandius (I hope that's how you spell it). He's kind of a mouse prophet. He tells our heroine of the forecoming doom. He's also a sarcastic cuss and therefore my favorite character in the book. This is him in full prophesy mode. Imagine him yellinng "DOOM DOOM DOOM!" As usual, go pick up a book over at buttersby.com. Enjoy.

A Buttersby Pic

So here's one of the interior pictures from the book I just did. I plan on doing quite a few more of these (I was pretty happy with them.) Anywho, this is one of the cavaconda (who also appears on the cover) He's an anaconda made of rock. Fun times huh? Everyone should really go buy one of these books. It's pretty fun stuff and the art is half bad if I do say so myself. You can go to Buttersby.com and then find the store from there. Enjoy.

Ninja Frog!

Here's another in a series of Animals turned into ninjas pictures. Enjoy.

Shawn Boyles....Published Illustrator!

I think that's how I'll introduce myself from now on. "Hi, how are you, I'm Shawn Boyles...(pause for emphasis) published illustrator. I've been wanting to do this post in here for a while. I've actually had the book for a couple months now, but now it is finally being sold and so I can tell all of you about it. So here it is, the Cavern of Babel. I got this project through a friend of mine at work (thanks Isaac) and it was a blast. It's a young adult chapter book about alpacas. I know what you're thinking too, "Finally, someone has written a book about alpacas. I'm sick of all the spy novels and techno thrillers and whatnot. Let's have some alpacas!" Now you're dreams are a reality. In all seriousness though I think this is a pretty fun book. At the begining of the project I was only going to paint a cover and then do two interior illustrations of the main characters. As I read the book through with my wife, however, I found that I liked the story and that I wanted to do more. I talked with the Author and we worked out that I would do a drawing for every chapter (kind of like you find in the Series of Unfortunate Events books, or Harry Potter) and then a couple more on top of that. So anyway the purpose of this post is to let you all know where you can find this book and then go and buy one (or two or three or four. I would keep a couple of them in those mylar protective bags so they'er in mint condition.) So if you want to check it out you can go to Buttersby.com (buttersby is the name of the main character). On that website you will find some options. Feel free to look around, buit if you're just there for the book, I would go to the store and it will lead you on from there. In the next couple of weeks I hope to post up some of the pictures I did for the interior as well as the whole wraparound cover without the text on it for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.