Thursday, December 10, 2009

The Power of Johnny


I recently drew this for Chris of Sal Bando. His idea was to have flying guitars over melting snowmen. I went to google to look for snowmen images and on the front image search page was a photo of the Beatles in a pool. I thought they could become elting snowmen and who better to elt them than Johnny Ramone.

16 comments:

james flames said...

this is fantastic! great job dude. love the hues.

alex fine illustration said...

Thanks James, I originally was going to make this big water seen under the snowmen but as always time got away from me.

John W. Tomac said...

That is terrific! Great idea.

alex fine illustration said...

Thanks John, you can't go wrong with a Ramone haha.

Dominic Bugatto said...

Ncely done.

Like the clean design too.

alex fine illustration said...

Thanks Dominic, I thought I'd go go for the simple background to make Johnny pop out more.

Linz said...

I love how you rocked out the Beatles with Johnny Ramone. What an immense concept! Love it.

alex fine illustration said...

Thanks Linz, I just wanted an excuse to ink all that hair. I'm working on a Diana Ross portrait right now with even taller, shinier hair.

Gavin Goo said...

Great work. Love the hair textures. A really great poster.

FrankenBarry said...

Great concept, illustration, and homage to one of my all-time heroes... awesome!

Tyler C. Bolyard said...

Thanks for the blog comment man, I'm diggin your stuff too, great work!

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