Bob started to do some drawing when he was 5 back when was often at home sick his father gave him a chalk board to draw on to pass the time which is another spark to starting his love of art.Years later he found out the hard facts in life of what it really means to work on comics putting him in big disappointment, but that didn't put him down on art.
Despite that he enjoyed life to the fullest watching famous monsters movies like Godzilla, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
Other then Classic monsters, he also enjoyed science fiction movies like the 2001 A space odyssey
and other science fiction films that were going on at the time of his childhood or the 50's classics in fact some of his earliest work were based on Rockets and believe it or not was not happy the way NASA designed it's rockets because they weren't the same as the rocket art work of the 20's and 30's.The year 1979 was When he was just 18 years old he went to an art convention which was the spark that really got him into the world of art and painting for a career. Bob has said the artist's that inspired him the most was Frederic Edwin Church & John Martin .
On what Bob said was mostly the landscapes for Frederic and the end of the world Style For John and in bobs mind that should work in science fiction art. During that time he asked a man at an art convention what is it that an artist should do for a career and I think it was about covers for books as advice. The Funny thing was that he dropped out of art school cause it just wasn't for him as the teachers said that he had to do a different style that he didn't like so he left. That's not to say that he didn't learn at all, in fact he learned a lot by going to museums reading comic books or maybe even looking at books on how to draw and his dad also helped him. 
This book cover was some of his earliest works as I said before for his love of science. Now you may know some of his more famous work mostly the dragons 
This one shown here is one of them. after he was done with dark horse he would go on to make cards for the famous card game called Magic: The Gathering from 1995-1997Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist with his first win in 1994 and has won the title 8 times. Now that is what I call great pride in art.
During his time as the years went by before IDW got the rights Bob would go on to do fan art of all kinds of things with GODZILLA being one of them he would even make his own sketch cards for this whole series of cards that's about Godzilla, according to what he told me he never liked doing advertisement at all because He often had to go with what the company asked for and Bob hated it.
"For $49? Man, I need to do more with the blanks I have!" I couldn't help but laugh when he said that, but hey that just him and something tells me when he does cards again he's going to add more stuff to it and make less empty.
When IDW got the rights to the monsters Bob would get involved with the comics again this time his art would appear more often, but before I talk about that let me tell you about his favorite magazine 
Which was the kind of magazine mothers would not like too see there kids read them, but this was his as I would call his pride in joy and had never been so happy when he would get to draw and write for it and I believe he still works.Now the series that want to talk about with Godzilla is GODZILLA LEGENDS too me this how he really got involved with IDW series and with the photo's you see below pretty much show it and I think he did a cover for almost every issue in Legends and they are probably worth more then the usual covers.
