sailaway Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Illustrator Creates 'Monsters of Rock' Series Featuring Axl Rose And Others « on: Today at 09:53:29 AM »Illustrator Creates 'Monsters of Rock' Series Featuring Axl Rose and OthersMay 1st 2012Browsing the Internet yesterday, Noisecreep came across a visually striking piece of artwork featuring Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose depicted as some kind of nightmarish beast. Anyway, we did some digging and found out the Axl piece was created by Canadian commercial artist Jason Edmiston as part of his new Monsters of Rock series.The 16-year-veteran usually works in the advertising, packaging, and editorial arenas, but recently jumped into the apparel design and gallery work arenas. Edmiston's Monsters of Rock series also features AC/DC's Angus Young, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, Motley Crue's Tommy Lee, and other rock, metal and punk icons. The complete series can currently be seen at the Photo Booth Gallery in Long Beach, Calif. as part of an exhibition that runs till May 8.Noisecreep chatted with Edmiston to find out more about his Monsters of Rock pieces and the new exhibit.How did you come up with the idea for the Monsters of Rock series?I had a great old press photo of Tommy Lee from the Eighties, and wanted to do something with it for a long time. A gallery show came up with Basil Wolverton style crazy monsters, so I thought I'd mash up my favorite hair metal heroes with his style of ugly creatures. I started out with Tommy, Joey Ramone, and Axl Rose. I later expanded the series to six, and have plans for many more.Did you grow up in the '80s, listening to hard rock and metal?I sure did. A teenager in the '80s, I watched a lot of music videos for Ozzy, Crue, KISS and Guns N' Roses. I'm a big fan of the glam and punk rockers, and love the mix of showmanship and larger than life lyrics.How did you narrow down the list of rock icons you wanted to paint for this series?I chose my favorites, but they also had to be recognizable by their hair, or tattoos, or costumes. Some are more suitable than others from the similar era.Can you break down the inspiration behind the Axl Rose, Tommy Lee and Dee Snider, each?Well, Axl is one of my favorites. Talk about a born alpha frontman. I love his dirty Hollywood style, with bandana, bangles, tattoos and ratty hair. The features that I chose to exaggerate are not specific to him, I just wanted to make it balanced compositionally with the pose.Tommy was all about the feathered hair and that lone Mighty Mouse tattoo on his shoulder. The background was inspired by the cover to Shout at the Devil. The band's standing in front of some burning wreckage, and I just liked the colors.Dee is pretty wild looking already, but I wanted him even more aggressive, so I added crab claws and snakeskin, with beady eyes, a bird beak, and sharpened stakes for teeth. The background is inspired by a press photo of Dee where he's walking out of green mist. It fit the mood I was going for.Did you have any musicians that you wanted to include, but for whatever reason, didn't really translate over to the "monsters" theme?There are some rockers that I like, but couldn't figure out how to represent. Bruce Dickinson for instance, looks pretty ordinary, except for his Conan the Barbarian hairdo. Maybe an Eddie T-shirt? ...but anyone can be turned into a monster. Maybe a female next. Lita Ford perhaps?Tell us about the exhibition at Phone Booth Gallery.Well, it's a three person show Joe King and Ryan Milner and me. Those two guys are better know for apparel graphics, as well as advertising design and illustration. We three are influenced by comics, hard rock, movies, television, tattoo culture, pop art, etc, and it shows in our work. The Phone Booth show features art inspired by these topics, and was a lot of fun to produce.How can our readers pick up one of these Monsters of Rock prints?For now, check out the Phone Booth Gallery link. All six rocker prints are available. Thanks!Check out more of Edmiston's killer artwork at his official site and online store.Here: http://www.noisecreep.com/2012/05/01/monsters-of-rock-paintings/http://phoneboothgallery.com/pbg/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris 55 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Axl kinda looks like Jar Jar Binks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiraMPD Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 That one was done quite a while ago... I remember seeing it on DA last year.I love that painting. It's just perfect imo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOUCOULDBEMINE. Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 lolwutI prefer this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flayer Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 I remember I posted the Axl one here a while ago. Who's the one on the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOUCOULDBEMINE. Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Angus Young, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailaway Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Angus Young, no?Yes!! Note the trademark outfit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtydane Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 lolwutI prefer this one:Def. I thought the other one was kinda dumb last time I saw it. Really like this one tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 tl;drCool pictures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Use Your Delusion 1 Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 freaky as hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Black Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 (edited) That's supposed to be Angus Young, not Slash.ah, someone deleted their post Edited May 3, 2012 by The Black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Broue Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 Weeeeird but cool as fuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PirateChick Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 I remember I posted the Axl one here a while ago. Who's the one on the right?The one on the right is God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wpgGNRfan Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I own the first three prints that he put out for his monsters of rock set. There were only 100 of each done. Sold out rather quickly. The first 3 were tommy lee, Joey Ramone, and axl rose. All the ones I got were in the first 10 printed, the next three I think he's putting out is Dee snider, angus young, and billy idol. I emailed Jason and he said he will be making vinyl action figures of each of the characters as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaida Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) Looks more like Jar Jar Binks going to a fancy dress party dressed as Axl Rose from 1988 Edited May 5, 2012 by vaida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaida Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) more GN'R art.. Edited May 5, 2012 by vaida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flayer Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Oh good fucking God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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