Billy Bob Finished

Here is my finished illustration and my homage to Billy Bob. Its not an exact copy of him because I wanted to use my memory of him as much as possible and use photo reference as sparingly as possible. My love of the Showbiz Pizza as a kid was recently sparked again when I stumbled upon the You Tube videos.

Rockafire Explosion DVD

I own this movie on iTunes and for anyone that was lucky enough to grow up in the 80's and have a Show Biz Pizza in your town you will love to watch this video and relive your childhood again. The DVD is about a dream being realized, and then turning into this amazing franchise and then falling apart rather quickly. But the beauty of the story is how it inspired so many others.

Billy Bob (in progress)

Just for fun I am working on this illustration of Billy Bob from the Rockafire Express band. I was fortunate as a kid to have a Show Biz Pizza in my city. There were only 200 of them built and then they had financial troubles and were taken over by Chucky Cheese. The Rockafire Explosion was a robot or animatronic band that would play music, tell jokes, and preform skits. It was really an amazing performance and outside of Disney World I never saw anything else like it to this day. I will post the You Tube Videos so you can experience the band for yourself.