About SketchBlog

My name is Rob. I'm 28 years old, I live in Los Angeles, and I'm a professional art director. While I work mostly with graphic design and video, illustration has always been my favorite means of expression. I grew up an only child of a single mother, so my sketchbook and my imagination were often my best childhood friends. My brain was raised on a hearty diet of comic books, toy robots, saturday morning cartoons, Star Wars, and Nintendo. And not a whole lot has changed since then, really, except that my sketchbook has gone digital.

I originally made this SketchBlog as an exercise in creative discipline - an attempt to get myself to draw more and play around with images and ideas that wouldn't fit in my professional work. A playground for the side of my brain that never really grew up, I suppose. It's proved to be a tremendous motivational tool, and I'm really pleased with some of the art that's come out of it so far.

If you want to see how I spend the rest of my time, you can visit my professional portfolio. You can also email me at rob (at) rob-sheridan (dot) com. I love getting emails, but I am notoriously terrible at responding to them.

Some of the illustrations from here can also be found at Flickr. I also have a page on Facebook, if that's your thing.

If you still want to know more, here is a very incomplete list of things which have influenced me, and other visual artists I admire:

Influences:

Comic Books
Dave McKean
Jim Henson
Indiana Jones
Nintendo
Pixar
Robots
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Science
Science Fiction
Steven Spielberg
Star Wars
Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)


Admirations:

Banksy
David Carson
Cyriak
Garbage Pail Kids
Michel Gondry
David Lynch
Mars-1
The Perry Bible Fellowship
Alex Ross
Space Invader
Joel-Peter Witkin
Ashley Wood
XKCD